The Development of Competition Law & Policy and Its Consequences for Innovation
Project Overview
Several projects at the IR Chair examine the drivers, the evolution, and the consequences of antitrust/competition law, its enforcement, and the broader phenomenon of competition policy, often using original datasets. Individual projects focus on:
- the diffusion of competition law from fewer than 40 countries in 1990 (most of them advanced industrialized democracies) to more than 140 countries all over the globe by 2020;
- evolving understandings/norms, practices, and institutions of antitrust/competition law in Europe and the United States, as well as Africa;
- the politics of competition law enforcement, including the role of international trade (openness) in light of New New Trade Theory;
- the need for, potential, and limitations of using competition law to regulate platforms and data-driven markets with winner-take-all tendencies;
- the effects of competition law (enforcement) on innovation.
Project Members
- Tim Büthe
- Cindy Cheng
- Zlatina Georgieva
- Vellah Kigwiru
- Chase Foster
+ Prof. Dr. Shahryar Minhas (Michigan State) + Dr. Melike Arslan (MPIfG) + Prof. Dr. Kathleen Thelen (MIT)