Table of Contents Part I. Competition Policy: History, Objectives and the Law: 1. Introduction 2. Brief history of competition policy 3. Objectives of competition policy, and other public policies 4. The main features of European competition law 5. Exercises
Part II. Market Power and Welfare: Introduction: 6. Overview of the chapter 7. Allocative efficiency 8. Productive efficiency 9. Dynamic efficiency 10. Public policies and incentives to innovate 11. Monopoly: will the market fix it all? 12. Summary and policy conclusions 13. Exercises 14. Solutions of exercises Part III. Market Definition and the Assessment of Market Power: 15. Introduction 16. Market definition 17. The assessment of market power 18. Exercises Part IV. Collusion and Horizontal Agreements: 19. Introduction 20. Factors that facilitate collusion 21. Advanced material 22. Practice: what should be legal and what illegal? 23. Joint-ventures and other horizontal agreements 24. A case of parallel behaviour: wood pulp 25. Exercises Part V. Horizontal Mergers: 26. Introduction 27. Unilateral effects 28. Pro-collusive effects 29. A more general model 30. Merger remedies 31. Merger policy in the European Union 32. Case studies 33. Exercises
Part VI. Vertical Restraints and Vertical Mergers: 4. What are vertical restraints? 35. Intra-brand competition 36. Inter-brand competition 37. Anti-competitive effects: leverage and foreclosure 38. Conclusions and policy implications 39. Cases 40. Exercises
Part VII. Predation, Monopolisation, and Other Abusive Practices: 41. Introduction 42. Predatory pricing 43. Non-price monopolisation practices 44. Price discrimination 45. US v. Microsoft 46. Exercises 47. Solutions of exercises Part VIII. A Toolkit: Game Theory and Imperfect Competition Models: 48. Introduction 49. Monopoly 50. Oligopoly I: market competition in static games 51. Oligopoly II: dynamic games 52. Appendix.