Aims and Values in Competition Law

Part I. General Perspectives Introduction Caroline Heide-Jorgensen, Christian Bergqvist, Ulla Neergaard & Sune Troels Poulsen EU Competition Law from Rome to Lisbon - Social Market Economy Giorgio Monti Consumer Welfare in EU Competition Policy Svend Albak, Chief Economist Team, Directorate-General for Competition Part II. Private Distortions of Competition, Article 101 TFEU The Relationship between Article 101 (1) TFEU and Article 101 (3) TFEU Caroline Heide-Jorgensen Is there (Still) Room for Non-Economic Arguments in Article 101 TFEU Cases? Chris Townley Part III. Private Distortions of Competition, Article 102 and Mergers Can Consumer Welfare Convincingly be said to be an Objective of Article 102 when the Methodology Relies on an Inference of Effects Liza Lovdahl Gormsen Use and Abuse of Competition Law in Pursuit of the Single Market. Has Competition Law Served as Regulation Subject to a Quasi Industrial Policy Agenda? Christian Bergqvist Part IV. Public Distortions of Competition - State and the Market Services of General (Economic) Interest in EU competition law Johan van de Gronden State Aid and Economic Development - the Case of Aid for Research, Development and Innovation Sune Troels Poulsen The Resilience of Sector-Specific Competition Law in the Liberalized Sectors - Structural necessities or institutional inertias? Nina Boeger & Joseph Corkin Comments on Public Distortions of Competition, State and the Market Andreas Bartosch About the Authors