Market Building through Antitrust

Adrien de Hauteclocque

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Abstract: Market Building through Antitrust investigates the role of antitrust policy in the building of competitive energy markets in Europe. By looking at the specific problem of long-term supply and access contracts in the electricity sector, the book questions the suitability of antitrust policy as a market building tool. It shows that the institutional infrastructure that pre-dated competitive reform and the politics of liberalization have largely shaped the current dynamics at work in European energy regulatory practice. In particular, antitrust law has increasingly been used as a quasi-ex ante regulatory tool, thereby raising problems in terms of economic efficiency, legal certainty and political legitimacy.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Law - Academic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D0 L0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
ISBN: 9780857937735
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 The problem of long-term contracts in decentralized electricity markets: an economic perspective , pp 8-44

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Ch 2 Vertical de-integration and single market integration in the European Union: an incomplete transition , pp 45-72

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Ch 3 The antitrust strategy of the European Commission on domestic long-term contracts: is the new methodology truly ‘more economic’? , pp 73-108

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Ch 4 Long-term contracts across Member States: the problem of priority access rights to interconnectors , pp 109-140

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Ch 5 The strategy of the European Union for the development of interconnectors: assessing the role of merchant transmission investment , pp 141-168

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