Overview

Regulatory Competition and Economic Integration addresses one of the hottest policy questions on both sides of the Atlantic: at what level of government should regulation be undertaken? Whether called 'federalism' or 'subsidiarity', the struggle between those who wish to centralize governmental functions and those who seek to decentralize them looms large. Esty and Geradin bring together top-notch scholars from both Europe and the United States to examine the various aspects of the debate between 'harmonization' and 'regulatory competition' across three comparative dimensions: first, across regulatory areas (environment, banking, corporate law, labor, tax and antitrust); second, across models of economic integration (from highly integrated systems, such as the United States or the European Union, to loosely integrated regimes, such as the WTO); and third, across disciplinary perspectives (law, economics, business, political science). The book provides a sharp focus on the circumstances that would yield gains from regulatory competition and to contrast those cases where heightened co-operation in standard setting or broader regulatory harmonization might increase social welfare.

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Author:   Daniel C. Esty ,  Damien Geradin
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.793kg
ISBN:  

9780198299059

ISBN 10:   0198299052
Pages:   468
Publication Date:   01 February 2001
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I. Introduction to Regulatory Competition Theory 1: Richard Revesz: Federalism and Regulation: Some Generalizations 2: Daniel C.Esty and Damien Geradin: Regulatory Co-Opetition II. Regulatory Competition Theory in the US System 3: Daniel Shaviro: Some Observations Concerning Multi-jurisdictional Tax Competition 4: Lucian Arye Bebchuk and Allen Ferrell: Federalism and Takeover Law: The Race to Protect Managers From Takeovers 5: Jonathan R. Macey: Regulatory Competition in the US Federal System: Banking and Financial Services 6: Mark Barenberg: Labor Federalism in the United States: Lessons for Coordinated Decentralization in Supranational Regimes 7: Kirsten Engel and Susan Rose-Ackerman: Environmental Federalism in the United States: The Risks of Devolution III. Regulatory Competition Theory in the EU Context 8: William Bratton and Joseph McCahery: Fiscal Federalism, Jurisdictional Competition and Tax Coordination: Translating Theory to Policy in the European Union 9: Simon Deakin: Regulatory Competition versus Harmonization in European Company Law 10: Gerard Hertig: Regulatory Competition in the EU System: Banking and Financial Services 11: Brian Bercusson: Regulatory Competition in the EU System: Labor 12: Michael Faure: Regulatory Competition vs. Harmonization in EU Environmental Law IV. Regulatory Competition at the Global Scale 13: Joel P. Trachtman: Regulatory Competition and Regulatory Jurisdiction in International Securities Regulation 14: David Charny: Regulatory Competition and the Global Coordination of Labor Standards 15: David Vogel: Environmental Regulation and Economic Integration 16: Eleanor M. Fox: Antitrust Law on a Global Scale: Races Up, Down, and Sideways 17: Inge Govaere and Paul Demaret: The TRIPS Agreement: A Response to Global Regulatory Competition or an Exercise in Global Regulatory Coercion?

Reviews

... a major contribution to the third wave of literature ... the quality of all of the contributions is very high. Their work merits attention from policy-makers and academics alike. Anthony Ogus, Professor of Law, University of Manchester and Research Professor, University of Maastricht The question of regulatory competition has come to center stage with widespread fears of a race to the bottom in the rapidly integrating world economy. This book, with penetrating and masterly essays by several of the leading authorities on the subject, is therefore immensely timely. Read and be informed. Jagdish Bhagwati, Andre Meyer Senior Fellow in International Relations, Council on Foreign Relations.

... a major contribution to the third wave of literature ... the quality of all of the contributions is very high. Their work merits attention from policy-makers and academics alike. Anthony Ogus, Professor of Law, University of Manchester and Research Professor, University of Maastricht The question of regulatory competition has come to center stage with widespread fears of a race to the bottom in the rapidly integrating world economy. This book, with penetrating and masterly essays by several of the leading authorities on the subject, is therefore immensely timely. Read and be informed. Jagdish Bhagwati, Andre Meyer Senior Fellow in International Relations, Council on Foreign Relations.

Author Information

Daniel C. Esty is Associate Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Clinical professor of Law at Yale Law School Damien Geradin is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Liege and Professor of Law at the College of Europe, Bruges

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