The more economic approach to european competition law

Over the past ten years, European competition policy has undergone dramatic change, largely inspired by the European Commission´s move towards a more economics-based approach. A more economic approach to the application of competition law means that the assessment of each specific case will not be undertaken on the basis of the form or intrinsic nature of a particular practice but rather will be based on a careful examination and weighing of its anti- and pro-competitive effects. With contributions by: Dieter Schmidtchen, Christian Kirchner, Roger van den Bergh, Wulf-Henning Roth, Roland Kirstein, Clifford Jones, Stefan Voigt, Wernhard Möschel, Gerhard Wagner, Maarten Pieter Schinkel, Paul Heidhues, Hans W. Friederiszick, Frank P. Maier-Rigaud, Christian Koboldt, Wouter P. J. Wils, Michele Polo, Tomaso Duso, Klaus Gugler, Burcin Yurtoglu, Wolfgang Kerber, Daniel L. Rubinfeld, Roy J. Epstein, Christian Wey, Rainer Nitsche, Justus Haucap