Competition Policy and the Control of Buyer Power

Peter C. Carstensen

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Abstract: This book provides a comprehensive overview of the economic and competition policy issues that buyer power creates. Drawing on economic analysis and cases from around the world, it explains why conventional seller side standards and analyses do not provide an adequate framework for responding to the problems that buyer power can create. Based on evidence that abuse of buyer power is a serious problem for the competitive process, the book evaluates the potential for competition law to deal directly with the problems of abuse either through conventional competition law or special rules aimed at abusive conduct. The author also examines controls over buying groups and mergers as potentially more useful responses to risks created by undue buyer power.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Law - Academic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D4 L4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
ISBN: 9781782540571
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Buyer power: a pervasive challenge to competition policy , pp 1-15

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Ch 2 The goals of competition policy , pp 16-37

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Ch 3 Buyer power: its definition and measurement , pp 38-78

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Ch 4 The potential competitive harms from the existence and abuse of buyer power , pp 79-116

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Ch 5 Competition policy for unilateral conduct by buyers , pp 117-138

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Ch 6 Market regulation and other strategies to remedy abuse of buyer power , pp 139-178

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Ch 7 Competition policy for buyer cartels, buying groups and other contractual restraints involving buyer power , pp 179-223

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Ch 8 Controlling the creation of buyer power through merger policy , pp 224-268

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Ch 9 Conclusion: the centrality of market structure and the limits of national authority , pp 269-280

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