Internationalization of competition law and policy
Author(s)
Advisor
İpek, PınarDate
2010Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
With the internationalization of anticompetitive business activity, national
competition laws and policies proved to be insufficient to protect competition in free
markets. To cope with the problems created by international anticompetitive conduct,
states and/or national regulators started to take part in various arrangements
concerning the issue. Today, there are different forms of internationalization of
competition law and policy such as extraterritorial application of domestic laws and
policies and certain cooperation and convergence mechanisms. Moreover, various
actors take part in the process: states, regulators, international organizations, firms
etc.
This thesis aims to analyze the important factors of internationalization of
competition law and policy so that the reasons behind the current state of the
internationalization process can be understood. Furthermore, four main International
Political Economy theoretical perspectives are utilized to provide a new insight for
and a further understanding of internationalization of competition law and policy.
Keywords
Competition Law and PolicyInternationalization
European Union
International Organizations
International Political Economy
Realism
Liberalism
Historical Structuralism
Constructivism