Cooperating on Competition in Transatlantic Economic Relations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. EU-US Cooperation in Competition Policy

   • Chad Damro

   Pages 1-21

3. Historical Discord in Transatlantic Competition Relations

   • Chad Damro

   Pages 22-61

4. The International and Domestic Sources of Transatlantic Cooperation in Competition Policy

   • Chad Damro

   Pages 62-98

5. Dispute Prevention via Rule-Making Cooperation

   • Chad Damro

   Pages 99-131

6. Dispute Prevention via Exploratory Institutional Cooperation

   • Chad Damro

   Pages 132-149

7. The Politics of International Regulatory Cooperation

   • Chad Damro

   Pages 150-174

8. Back Matter

   Pages 175-214

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In this in-depth study, Damro explains the creation of a formal cooperative framework for preventing disputes in transatlantic competition policy. The findings suggest that, while regulators remain constrained by domestic institutions, they play an important role in explaining why the cooperative framework is largely a discretionary one.

• competition
• competition policy
• Institution
• Nation
• politics

'This is a scholarly and well-thought-out piece of work. Damro knows a great deal about the practice of competition regulation in the transatlantic region.' Alan P. Dobson, European Foreign Affairs Review

• University of Edinburgh, UK

  Chad Damro

CHAD DAMRO is Lecturer in Politics and Co-Director of the MSc in International and European Politics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He was previously an EU Fulbright Scholar in Brussels, Belgium (2000) and Jean Monnet Fellow at the University Institute in Florence, Italy (2002-03). His research focuses on EU-US economic and environmental relations and the EU's role in the international system and he has published in the Journal of European Public Policy, European Journal of International Relations, European Foreign Affairs Review, Environmental Politics and Environment and Planning.

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