Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/2410 
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Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 979
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
Antitrust issues increasingly reach beyond national borders. This paper addresses the question whether such issues can reasonably be solved by an extraterritorial application of national competition law or whether they call for an international competition policy of its own. The analysis is based upon 20 case studies which are examined with regard to the suitability of the effects doctrine and the principles of comity as conflict resolution mechanisms. The case studies demonstrate that conflicts in international antitrust are most likely to arise where national competition laws differ from each other or where national authorities are pursuing divergent industrial policy objectives.
Subjects: 
antitrust policy
international economic order
effects doctrine
comity principles
JEL: 
F02
L40
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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