CONTENTS
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors

1 INTRODUCTION
Leonard Waverman, William S. Comanor and Mira Goto

Part I The issues
2 GLOBALIZATION, DOMESTIC POLICIES AND THE NEED FOR HARMONIZATION
Sylvia Ostry
3 TRENDS IN THE FORMS OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ORGANIZATION
Edward Safarian

Part II Mergers
4 MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS IN JAPAN AND THE ANTI-MONOPOLY POLICY
Hiroyuki Odagiri
5 INTERJURISDICTIONAL CONFLICT IN MERGER REVIEW
A. Neil Campbell and Michael J. Trebilcock
6 STRATEGIC ALLIANCES A THREAT TO COMPETITION?
Shyam Khenani and Leonard Waverman
7 CONFIDENTIALITY IN THE ERA OF INCREASED COOPERATION BETWEEN ANTITRUST AUTHORITIES
James F. Rill and Calvin S. Goidman, QC

Part III R&D consortia
8 COLLABORATIVE R&D AND COMPETITION POLICY
Economic analysis in the light of Japanese experience
Kotaro Suzumura and Mira Goto
9 INTERNATIONAL R&D COOPERATIONS
Werner MezBner and Rainer Markl
10 PUBLIC POLICIES TOWARDS COOPERATION IN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
The European Union, Japan and the United States
Stephen Martin
11 INNOVATION, MARKET STRUCTURE AND ANTITRUST
Harmonizing competition policy in regimes of rapid technological change
Thomas M. Jorde and David J. Teece

Part IV Vertical arrangements
12 VERTICAL INTERFIRM RELATIONS
A competition policy issue?
Annette Bongardt
13 COMPETITION POLICY TOWARDS VERTICAL FORECLOSURE IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY
William S. Comanor and Patrick Rey
14 KEIRETSU
Interfirm relations in Japan
Akira Goto and Kotaro Suzumura

Part V Cooperation, harmonization, convergence?
15 TRADE LIBERALIZATION AND THE COORDINATION OF COMPETITION POLICY
Damien Neven and Paul Seabright
16 THE HARMONIZATION OF COMPETITION AND TRADE LAW
The case for modest linkages of law and the limits to parochial state action
Eleanor M. Fox and Janusz A. Ordover
17 THE HARMONIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION LAW ENFORCEMENT
Donald 1. Baker, A. Neil Campbell, Michael J. Reynolds and J. William Rowley

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