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Zusatztext ...cover to cover, this is the best contemporary book on cartels. Informationen zum Autor Caron Beaton-Wells is a Professor at the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. Ariel Ezrachi is the Slaughter and May Professor of Competition Law at the University of Oxford, UK, Fellow of Pembroke College, and the Director of the University of Oxford Centre for Competition Law and Policy. He is the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement and the author, co-author, and editor of numerous books, including How Big-Tech Barons Smash Innovation, EU Competition Law: An Analytical Guide to the Leading Cases, Competition Overdose, and Virtual Competition. Photo courtesy of Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. Klappentext This book is inspired by the international movement towards the criminalization of cartel conduct over the last decade. Led by US enforcers! criminalization has been supported by a growing number of regulators and governments. It derives its support from the simple yet persuasive proposition that criminal sanctions! particularly jail time! are the most effective deterrent to such activity. However! criminalization is much more complex than the basic proposition suggests. There is complexity both in terms of the various forces that are driving and shaping the movement - economic! political! and social - and in the effects on the various actors involved in it - the government! the enforcement agencies! the business community! the legal profession! and the general public. This substantial volume captures the complexity of the criminalization phenomenon and considers its implications for building an effective criminal cartel regime! particularly outside of the US. It adopts a range of appr Zusammenfassung Featuring eminent contributors this book captures the complexities of the international movement towards the criminalisation of cartel conduct. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART A INTRODUCTION1. Criminalising Cartels: Why Critical Studies?Caron Beaton-Wells and Ariel EzrachiPART B THE US EXPERIENCE WITH CRIMINAL CARTEL ENFORCEMENT2. Punishment for Cartel Participants in the United States: A Special Model?Donald I BakerPART C EXPERIENCES OUTSIDE THE US WITH CRIMINAL CARTEL ENFORCEMENT3. Redesigning a Criminal Cartel Regime: The Canadian ConversionD Martin Low and Casey Halladay4. Competition Offences in Ireland: The Regime and Its ResultsPatrick Massey and John D Cooke 5. DOA: Can the UK Cartel Offence Be Resuscitated?Julian Joshua6. What if All Bid Riggers Went to Prison and Nobody Noticed? Criminal Antitrust Law Enforcement in GermanyFlorian Wagner-von Papp7. Cartel Criminalisation and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission: Opportunities and ChallengesCaron Beaton-WellsPART D EU PERSPECTIVES ON CARTEL CRIMINALISATION8. Criminalising Cartels in the European Union: Is There a Case for Harmonisation?Ingeborg Simonsson9. Criminal Cartel Enforcement in the European Union: Avoiding a Human Rights Trade-OffPeter WhelanPART E TESTING ORTHODOX ASSUMPTIONS UNDERPINNING CARTEL CRIMINALISATION10. Criminal Cartel Sanctions and Compliance: The Gap between Rhetoric and RealityChristine Parker11. Am I a Price Fixer? A Behavioural Economics Analysis of CartelsMaurice E Stucke12. Cartels in the Criminal Law LandscapeRebecca Williams13. Cartel Offences and Non-Monetary Punishment: The Punitive Injunction as a Sanction against CorporationsBrent FissePART F EXPLORING THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CARTEL CRIMINALISATION14. Cartel Criminalisation as Juridification: Political and Regulatory DangersStephen Wilks 15. The Anti-Cartel Enforcement Industry: Criminological Perspectives on Cartel CriminalisationChristopher Harding16. 'The Battle for Hearts and Minds': The Role of the Media in Treating Cartels as CriminalAndreas StephanPART G FUTURE CHALLENGES FACING CARTEL CRIMINALI...
