Competition and Antitrust Policy in International Relations

Session Submission Type: Virtual Full Paper Panel

Session Description

This panel brings together research from international relations and international law studying competition/antitrust law. The papers evaluate how increased international economic integration and market concentration have shaped, and been shaped, by competition policy. Using a diverse set of empirical strategies, including archival research, survey experiments, and original datasets, the papers demonstrate and analyze the critical links between the politics of competition policy and international economics.

Sub Unit

• Division 16: International Political Economy

Chair

• Ryan Brutger University of California, Berkeley

Discussants

• Stephen Weymouth Georgetown University

• Abraham Newman Georgetown University

Individual Presentations

• Adam Smith Meets George Orwell: Markets, Antitrust, and the Politics of Language - Erik Peinert, Brown University

• U.S. Antitrust Enforcement in Global Markets: Regulatory Protectionism or a ... - Tim Buthe, Technical University of Munich (TUM); Cindy Cheng, Technical University of Munich

• Competition Law and Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions - Hyeon-Young Ro, Princeton University

• Individual Preferences for Antitrust Policy - Ryan Brutger, University of California, Berkeley; Amy Pond, Technical University of Munich