New frontiers of antitrust 2014

Description

This volume contains the papers presented at the annual Concurrences Journal conference held on 21 February 2014 at the French Ministry for the Economy. After the traditional laquo; State of the Union raquo;, presented by Vice President Joaquiacute;n Almunia in the context of the laquo; after raquo; economic crisis, the papers adress four main issuesbull; Detection of anticompetitive practices Should existing tools be revised or new tools introduced Leniency, market surveys, financial rewardhellip;bull; Patents Can antitrust authorities contribute to fixing the dysfunctional patent systembull; European Competition Network 10 years after amp; EC Regulation 12003 Can cooperation be extended to merger control and advocacybull; Restructuring firms in the context of crisis What role for merger policy The volume ends by a contribution of Minister Benoiu0302t Hamon on the French class action.This work was published in the collection under the scientific direction of Professor Laurence Idot.