Die Internationalisierung der Wettbewerbspolitik. Eine graphische Darstellung und modelltheoretische Diskussion mit Berücksichtigung des Territorialitäts- und des Auswirkungsprinzips

Abstract

The internationalisation of competition policy is analysed as an analogy to strategic commercial policy. Unilateral competition policies are compared with cooperative competition policy. The criteria used to evaluate different policies are deduced from catholic social sciences. The non-cooperative competition policy depends on whether the territoriality or the effect principle is valid. The analysed models are two-country-models. Two models are partial analyses, one with international price discrimination and the other without it. The general equilibrium model includes increasing returns to scale. The incentives of the countries to monopolise or monopsonise trade are analysed with the territoriality and the effect principle as collision norms. Different possibilities of extraterritorial enforcement are examined with the effect principle. Furthermore, internationalisation of competition policy is compared with non-cooperative competition policies. Criteria for comparison are efficiency, income distribution, freedom of competition and the subsidiarity principle. Furthermore the interests of countries towards internationalisation are analysed. The internationalisation is always better than the territoriality principle, but whether the effect principle is better or worse than the internationalisation depends on the economic situation of the global economy and on jurisdictional conditions.