I. EC Maritime Transport Law and Policy

Air Transport and EC Competition Law

This Essay is about air transport and EC competition Law. The air transport industry has, in many countries, developed as a mixture of public utility and commercial venture. With the deregulation of the airline market, the EC Commission has also, to an increasing extent, become involved in the competition aspects of the airline industry. Part I deals with the transportation industry. Part II di...

Including Maritime Transport in the EU ́s Climate Change Policy: Country-Based Allocation and Effects

The European Union (EU) is actively campaigning for the global regulation of carbon emissions generated by maritime bunker fuels because these emissions are presently barely regulated and are projected to increase significantly in the coming decades. However, since a global regulation has not been reached yet, the EU is seeking ways to include the shipping sector in its greenhouse gas reduction...

Global Trade and the Maritime Transport Revolution

Energy Liberalization and EC Competition Law

Community competition policy utilizes four main instruments in order to contribute to the realization of these prerequisites: classical antitrust (prohibition of cartels and abuses of dominant positions), merger control, supervision of enterprises entrusted with special or exclusive rights, and State aid control. Energy liberalization requires the comprehensive use of all four instruments in or...

Law, Policy, and Cooperation

The last two decades have seen significant work undermining the selfishness hypothesis commonly used as a simplifying device for analysis based on the rational actor model. The work traverses a wide range of disciplines, from experimental economics and game theory, to anthropology, social psychology, and evolutionary biology. At the same time, organizational sociology and management science hav...