Europäische Wettbewerbspolitik zwischen Prozeß- und Ergebnisorientierung: Zur Notwendigkeit institutioneller Reformen in der europäischen Wettbewerbspolitik / European Competition Policy between Process and Performance Orientation: The Necessity of Institutional Reforms

Schmidt Andre
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Schmidt Andre: Universität Hohenheim, Lehrstuhl für VWL, insbes. Preis-, Markt- und Wettbewerbstheorie und -politik, Fruhwirthstraße/Schloß I (520), D-70593 Stuttgart

Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 1999, vol. 218, issue 3-4, 433-452

Abstract: The European competition policy can look back at a successful forty-year-old practice of application by the European Commission. However, the performance orientation in competition policy has become more and more important with increasing importance of so called positive integration. In a multitude of merger and state aid cases such a performance orientation can be shown. From the point of view of a market economy such a development is dangerous because the decision-making process becomes more and more political. Therefore, the authority applying competition law should be organised taking regard of aspects of institutional economics and public choice. Only a politically independent competition authority can guarantee the protection of competition. Therefore, in the European Union the decision-making process in the field of competition policy should be institutionalised with an independent European Antitrust Office and with an independent State Aid Commission.

Keywords: European competition policy; merger control; state aid; European Antitrust Office; State Aid Commission; Europ. Wettbewerbspolitik; Fusionskontrolle; Beihilfenkontrolle; europ. Kartellamt; Subventionskontrollrat; European competition policy; merger control; state aid; European Antitrust Office; State Aid Commission (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-1999-3-411

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