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dc.contributor.authorChristiansen, Arndten
dc.contributor.authorKerber, Wolfgangen
dc.date.accessioned2006-10-10-
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-12T14:19:45Z-
dc.date.available2010-02-12T14:19:45Z-
dc.date.issued2006-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/29855-
dc.description.abstractBoth in US antitrust and EU competition policy a development to a broader appli-cation of rule of reason instead of per se rules can be observed. In the European discussion the attempt to base competition policy on a more economic approach is mainly viewed as im-proving the economic analysis in the assessment of specific cases. In this paper it is shown from a general law and economics perspective that the application of rules instead of focus-sing on case-by-case analyses can have many advantages (less regulation costs, rent seeking and knowledge problems), although an additional differentiation of rules through a deeper assessment can also have advantages in regard to the reduction of decision errors of type I and II. After introducing the notion of a continuum of more or less differentiated rules, we show - based upon law and economics literature upon the optimal complexity of rules - in a simple model that a competition rule is optimally differentiated, if the marginal reduction of the sum of error costs (as the marginal benefit of differentiation) equals the marginal costs of differen-tiation. This model also allows for a more detailed analysis of the most important determi-nants of the optimal degree of rule-differentia¬tion. From this law and economics perspective, competition policy should consist mainly of (more or less differentiated) rules and should only rarely rely on case-by-case analysis. Therefore the main task of a more economic ap-proach is to use economics for the formulation of appropriate competition rules.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aPhilipps-Universität Marburg, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften |cMarburgen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aMarburger Volkswirtschaftliche Beiträge |x2006,06en
dc.subject.jelK21en
dc.subject.jelK40en
dc.subject.jelL40en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordCompetition Policyen
dc.subject.keywordEuropean Competition Lawen
dc.subject.keywordRule of Reasonen
dc.subject.stwWettbewerbspolitiken
dc.subject.stwEU-Politiken
dc.subject.stwEU-Staatenen
dc.subject.stwUSAen
dc.titleCompetition policy with optimally differentiated rules instead of per se rules vs. rule of reason-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn518536432en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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