Competition Law Compliance Programmes An Interdisciplinary Approach [Hardcover]

This book reviews and presents antitrust law compliance programmes from different angles. These programmes have been increasingly implemented and refined by firms over recent years, and various aspects of this topic have been researched. The contributions in this book extend beyond the treatment of legal issues and show how lawyers, economists, psychologists, and business scholars can help design antitrust law compliance programmes more effectively and run them more efficiently.

Part I: Introduction: Introduction (Johannes Paha).- Competition Law Compliance Programmes: an Economic Perspective (Stefan Fr?bing, and Kai H?schelrath).- Part II: Compliance in Business and Economics: Results of a Survey in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland on how to Prevent Violations of Competition Laws (Georg G?tz, Daniel Herold, and Johannes Paha).- Reducing Antitrust Violations (Peter Kotzian, Thomas St?ber, and Barbara E. Wei?enberger).- Compliance and Incentive Compatible Working Contracts (Daniel Herold).- Antitrust Compliance and Abusive Behaviour (Ulrich Schwalbe).- Part III: Criminal Sanctions: Criminal Sanctions against Corporations (Andreas Ransiek).- Compliance and Individual Sanctions in the Enforcement of Competition Law (Florian Wagner-von Papp).- Part IV: Fine Reductions: Can Compliance Programmes contribute to effective antitrust enforcement? (Florence Th?pot).- Legal incentives for compliance programmes  stick or carrot? (Per Rummel).- Part V: The Psychology of Compliance: Psychological Contributions to Competition Law Compliance (Agnieszka Paruzel, Barbara Steinmann, Annika N?bold, Sonja K. ?tting, and G?nter W. Maier).

The book successfully integrates the variety of views and succeeds in developing a set of common themes on CLCPs throughout the individual contributions. & Written accessibly, the book offers practitioners and policymakers useful guidance on the micro-determinants of effective competition law compliance. & This complÃ-