Globalization and EU Competition Policy

Umut Aydin is an Assistant Professor at Instituto de Ciencia Política, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her research interests include government-business relations, competition and industrial policies, and the international diffusion of regulatory policies. She has published articles on industrial policies and subsidies, EU competition policy, and international cooperation on competition policy. Kenneth P. Thomas is Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. His interests focus on the control of competition for investment, subsidies, and multinational corporations. His current research focuses on local subsidy policy, investment incentives in southern Africa, and bilateral investment treaties.

1. Introduction: The Challenges and Trajectories of EU Competition Policy in the Twenty-First Century 2. Managing State Aid in a Time of Crisis: Commission Crisis Communications and the Financial Sector Bailout 3. EU Control of State Aid to Mobile Investment in Comparative Perspective 4. When policy worlds collide: Tax Competition, State Aid, and Regional Economic Development in the EU 5. ‘Today’s Softness is Tomorrow’s Nightmare’: Intensifying the Fight against Cartels in Brussels and Bonn 6. The Political Interface of Financialisation and the Regulation of Mergers and Acquisitions in the EU 7. Comparing International EU Competition Cases: What Can Business and Politics Learn? 8. Promoting Competition: European Union and the Global Competition Order