Whish, Richard

Competition Law (ninth edition) / Richard Whish, David Bailey .--9th ed. .-- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press , 2018 .-- 1056 p. ; 24 cm

Whish and Bailey's Competition Law is the definitive textbook on this subject. An authoritative treatment of competition law is paired with an easy-to-follow writing style to make this book a comprehensive guide to the subject; essential reading for law students, practitioners, and officials.


The authors explain the purpose of competition policy, introduce the reader to key concepts and techniques in competition law and provide insights into the numerous different issues that arise when analysing market behaviour. Describing the law in its economic and market context, they particularly consider the competition law implications of business phenomena, including distribution agreements, licences of intellectual property rights, cartels, joint ventures, and mergers. The book assimilates a wide variety of resources, including judgments, decisions, guidelines, and periodical literature. An authoritative treatment of competition law is paired with an easy-to-follow writing style to make this book a comprehensive guide to the subject, regularly used in universities, law firms, economic consultancies, competition authorities, and courts.


Written by leading academics in the field, offering a wealth of experience to make this the definitive textbook on competition law; comprehensive coverage of competition law providing a complete and thorough guide to the subject; a critical and contextual approach, addressing the wider economic and practical realities of competition law; and an easy-to-follow writing style, bringing competition law to life for students of all levels.


New discussion of the treatment of conditional rebates under Article 102, including the judgment of the Court of Justice in Intel Corp v Commission; new discussion of the phenomena of price signalling, algorithmic collusion and other atypical cartel activities; covers recent developments on the application of EU and UK competition law to restrictions of online sales of goods and services; briefly considers the possible implications of Brexit for UK competition law; and incorporates extensive new case law and decisional practice at EU and UK level.


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1 Competition policy and economics


2 Overview of EU and UK competition law


3 Article 101(1)


4 Article 101(3)


5 Article 102


6 The obligations of Member States under the EU competition rules


7 Articles 101 and 102: public enforcement by the European Commission and national competition authorities under Regulation 1/2003


8 Articles 101 and 102: private enforcement in the courts of Member States


9 Competition Act 1998: substantive provisions


10 Competition Act 1998 and the cartel offence: public enforcement and procedure


11 Enterprise Act 2002: market studies and market investigations


12 The international dimension of competition law


13 Horizontal agreements (1): cartels


14 Horizontal agreements (2): oligopoly, tacit collusion and collective dominance


15 Horizontal agreements (3): cooperation agreements


16 Vertical agreements


17 Abuse of dominance (1): non-pricing practices


18 Abuse of dominance (2): pricing practices


19 The relationship between intellectual property rights and competition law


20 Mergers (1): introduction


21 Mergers (2): EU law


22 Mergers (3): UK law


23 Particular sectors


Bibliography


Index

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Competencia Derecho Derecho de la competencia Fusiones y adquisiciones

Restricciones a la competencia Antitrust Cárteles Abuso de posición dominante Acuerdos verticales Acuerdos horizontales Integración vertical Integración horizontal Promoción de la competencia Concentración de empresas Discriminación de precios Oligopolios Normativa Artículo 101 TFUE Derechos de propiedad intelectual e industrial

Bailey, David
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