Competition Law Compliance Programmes: An Interdisciplinary Approach

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 Frubing, and Kai Huschelrath).- 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 Goetz, Daniel Herold, and Johannes Paha).- Reducing Antitrust Violations (Peter Kotzian, Thomas Stoeber, and Barbara E. Weissenberger).- 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 Thepot).- 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 Nubold, Sonja K. OEtting, and Gunter W. Maier).