Improving International Competition Order An Institutional Approach

by Conrad, Christian A.

• ISBN13: 9781403947901
• ISBN10: 1403947902
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-07-22
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book presents a new neo-ordoliberal approach to regulating competition. Anti-dumping-measures are analyzed for the effects on international competition and resource allocation, and alternatives and improvements are suggested; from national forms of competition policy a synthesis of international competition policies are derived; a selection of the most important suggestions for reform are presented, compared, and evaluated. Finally, this book offers strategies that might serve as second-best, politically feasible solutions.

Author Biography

Christian Conrad has worked as a research intern at the EU Commission in Brussels, Belgium and has conducted interviews with the International Trade Administration and International Trade Commission..

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	vii
Introduction: On the Way to an International Competition Order	1	(4)
1 The Theory of Competition Policy: an International Synthesis	5	(28)
The role of competition in national and international economic systems	5	(5)
The ordoliberalist concept of Walter Eucken	10	(1)
The workability concept of industrial organization and the German conception of functional competition: the pessimists	11	(3)
The concept of free competition, the Chicago School, the Austrian School and the theory of contestable markets: the competition optimists	14	(5)
Evaluation	19	(4)
Newer developments	23	(4)
A concept of a new neo-ordoliberalism as an economic ideal for an international system of competition regulations	27	(6)
2 Distortions in Competition: Dumping and Anti-Dumping Measures	33	(24)
The attractiveness of anti-dumping measures, or why anti-dumping measures are so popular	33	(10)
Dumping and anti-dumping measures from a competition and allocation perspective	43	(14)
3 A Possible Way to an International Competition Order	57	(18)
Synthesis of international competition policies	58	(13)
Requirements for an international competition authority	71	(1)
Designing a new international system for competition regulation	72	(3)
4 Strategies to Reform the Regulations on International Competition	75	(27)
Criteria for an international system to regulate competition	75	(2)
Evaluation of selected reform strategies	77	(23)
Conclusion	100	(2)
5 Economic Policy Reform Strategies for International Regulations on Competition	102	(13)
Current interests	102	(2)
Economic policy reform strategies	104	(9)
What will come out of Doha?	113	(2)
Interviews	115	(3)
Notes	118	(17)
References	135	(14)
Index	149