Integrate or Separate - Institutional Design for the Enforcement of Competition Law and Consumer Law

Cseres, Kati

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“…Consolidation of the Dutch regulators was presented as a measure to save costs and provide synergies in regulatory activities. It was also expected that the newly created super-authority would be capable of anticipating market developments in a more integrated manner, using consolidated knowledge and expertise (Cseres, 2013).…”

Section: Merging Competition Authorities With Sectoral Regulators (Ho...mentioning

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Agencification revisited: trends in consolidation of central government administration in Europe

Sześciło

2020

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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Agencification was one of the main pillars of the New Public Management reforms in Europe in the 1980s and 1990s. The strong increase in the number of agencies and the extension of their autonomy (especially with regard to independent regulatory agencies) significantly changed the organizational architecture of governments. However, the review of organizational reforms implemented over the past two decades in European administrative systems demonstrates a trend towards the rationalization and consolidation of the agency landscape. This article provides insight into major forms and patterns of consolidation, including comprehensive, cross-sectoral agency rationalization initiatives and more selective reforms regarding specific policy areas or types of government functions. It also explores the background of the consolidation reforms, confirming that economic pressures affecting governments in the era of austerity played a crucial role in redefining the position of agencies in governments’ organizational set-up. Points for practitioners Agencies remain the main vehicle for policy implementation across Europe but the trend towards de-agencification emerged in the decade of the 2010s, represented by both comprehensive, cross-sectoral initiatives reducing the agency stock, and consolidations in specific policy areas or covering agencies of specific types. De-agencification was triggered by the 2008 global financial crisis that increased the pressure on the reduction of administrative expenditure. To a lesser extent, it was a reaction to the adverse effects of agencification, such as coordination and steering problems, or the ambiguous impact of agencification on the efficiency of the public administration.

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Section: Merging Competition Authorities With Sectoral Regulators (Ho...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Agencification revisited: trends in consolidation of central government administration in Europe

Sześciło

2020

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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“…While this is true, there are concerns about how to apply the lessons of behavioural economics to actual markets. Some of this debate over 'intervention' has an ideological feel, however, there are legitimate concerns about how to identify 'behavioural' versus 'rational' consumers (Rizzo and Whitman, 2009a;Oxera, 2010;Cseres, 2012). In particular, there is the open question of how remedies can be designed which do not penalise non-behavioural consumers or create other detrimental effects (Littlechild, 2012).…”

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“…The final way to conceive the debate on liberalisation and the role for regulators is to consider changing regulatory objectives that might justify a continued or expanded role for regulatory agencies. For example, behavioural economics might justify an increased role for regulators in correcting the mistakes of consumers (Cseres, 2012). The potential for behavioural economics to provide novel solutions fits with growing concerns about the engagement of residential consumers in liberalised utility markets (European Regulators Group, 2009;European Commission, 2010;Ipsos-Mori, 2012).…”

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“…The variation between multi-sector and single sector regulators across the EU should mean that empirical evaluation of the impact of this structural choice on market outcomes is possible. 37 Alternatively, regulators may combine different functional specialisms such as the combination of competition law and consumer law that formerly occurred within the UK's OFT (Cseres, 2013).…”

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Revisiting the Regulatory State: A Multidisciplinary Review Establishing a New Research Agenda

Deller

Vantaggiato

2014

SSRN Journal

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This paper provides a comprehensive literature review of the 'Regulatory State' through the lens of utility regulation. The review is multidisciplinary with it bringing together the insights available from the political science, economics, legal and management science literatures. It is clear that while the term 'Regulatory State' is essentially missing from the economics literature a vast array of economics papers provide valuable insights for debates about the Regulatory State within political science. In addition to reviewing the existing literature, the paper identifies opportunities for future research. The literature is grouped into five topics: (i) Consumers, (ii) Courts, (iii) Ideas, Experts and Expertise, (iv) Governance and (v) Assessing Regulator Performance. Apart from (iv), we believe all of these areas have been under-researched in relative terms. In particular, a key finding is that compared to the information available on Public Utility Commissioners in US States, very little information has been collated on the background, characteristics and careers of individual utility regulators working within Europe.

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Harmonization: Legal Enforcement

Cseres¹

2019

Encyclopedia of Law and Economics

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Integrate or Separate - Institutional Design for the Enforcement of Competition Law and Consumer Law

Cited by 6 publications

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Agencification revisited: trends in consolidation of central government administration in Europe

Agencification revisited: trends in consolidation of central government administration in Europe

Revisiting the Regulatory State: A Multidisciplinary Review Establishing a New Research Agenda

Harmonization: Legal Enforcement

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