The Institutional Design of European Competition Policy

Antonio Manganelli, Antonio Nicita and Maria Alessandra Rossi

No 2010/79, RSCAS Working Papers from European University Institute

Abstract: This paper analyzes the institutional design of the European competition policy system. Besides the multi-level public enforcement, the paper describes other two fundamental dimensions of the European competition policy system: the relationship between public and private enforcement and that between competition law enforcement and sector specific regulation, with particular regards with the Electronic Communications sector. The main effort of the paper consists in representing the EU Competition policy system as a web of vertical and horizontal relationships among a large set of actors, sometimes coordinated by formal or informal mechanisms but still characterized by competence overlaps and strategic interdependencies. Finally the paper aims at assessing the relevant economic trade-offs associated to these overlaps and interactions in terms of efficiency and effectiveness of the system, giving some policy suggestions for the future evolution of its overall design.

Keywords: Competition policy; institutional design; multi-level governance; public and private enforcement; competition policy in regulated industries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-10-08
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