Regulatory Competition in the Single Market

Sun, Jeanne-Mey; Pelkmans, Jacques

doi:10.1111/j.1468-5965.1995.tb00517.x

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“…However, from an economic perspective public law has always been viewed with suspicion, due to its dangerous potential 3 See, e.g., Eucken (1952), Cooter and Ulen (2004), and Furubotn and Richter (1997). 4 For the economic theory of federalism see Breton (1996), Inman andRubinfeld (1997), andOates (1999); for theories of interjurisdictional competition see Tiebout (1956), Kenyon andKincaid (1991), andFeld (2000); for theories of systems competition and regulatory competition see, e.g., Vanberg and Kerber (1994), Bratton and McCahery (1997), Sun and Pelkmans (1995), Esty and Gerardin (2001a); for an economic approach to legal federalism see Easterbrook (1994), Van den Bergh (1996), Kerber and Heine (2002), and Grundmann and Kerber (2002).…”

Section: Private Law and Regulationmentioning

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“…In this case, regulatory competition occurs when consumers choose between the products of different countries. The fear of a race to 20 For this broad discussion on regulatory competition, see Oates and Schwab (1988), Revesz (1992), Vanberg and Kerber (1994), Woolcock (1994), Sun and Pelkmans (1995), Bratton et al (1996), Sinn (1997), Vogel (1997), Van den Bergh (1998, 2002, Garcimartin (1999), Ogus (1999), Trachtman (2000), Esty and Geradin (2001a), Heine and Kerber (2002), Josselin (2002, 2003), Kieninger (2002), Ott and Schäfer (2002), Kerber and Budzinski (2003), and Kerber and Grundmann (2006). 21 For yardstick competition in the economic theory of federalism see Salmon (1987), Besley and Case (1995), Wrede (2001), and Bodenstein and Ursprung (2005).…”

Section: Regulatory Competition As Yardstick Competitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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European System of Private Laws: An Economic Perspective

Kerber¹

2008

Making European Private Law

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Section: Private Law and Regulationmentioning

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Section: Regulatory Competition As Yardstick Competitionmentioning

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European System of Private Laws: An Economic Perspective

Kerber¹

2008

Making European Private Law

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“…As Knill and Lehmkuhl (1999) argue, in these cases the 'goodness of fit' explanation does not perform well. The key mechanism triggered by 'negative integration' via mutual recognition is regulatory competition (Majone 1996;Sun and Pelkmans 1995). Knill and Lehmkuhl exemplify: 'The abolition of trade barriers for beer, for instance, has no direct impact on how the production of beer is regulated at the national level.…”

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Whither Europeanization? Concept Stretching and Substantive Change

2002

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This paper discusses the concept of Europeanization in the light of recent research on the impact of the European Union politics and policy. Conceptual analysis is preliminary to empirical analysis. Accordingly, I examine the risk of 'concept stretching', discuss extension and intension of Europeanization, and propose a taxonomy to 'unpack' the concept and organize empirical research. The explanation of Europeanization is based on mechanisms and variables that need further exploration, but some preliminary results are presented here. Further research should concentrate on the policy level (and its interaction with macro-structures) and seek cross-fertilization with theoretical policy analysis and international relations, thus avoiding the risk of intellectual segregation. KurzfassungDieser Beitrag diskutiert das Konzept der Europäisierung im Lichte der Forschung zu den Einwirkungen der Entscheidungsprozesse und Politiken der Europäischen Union. Vor der empirischen Analyse muss die konzeptionelle stehen. Daher untersuche ich zunächst die Gefahr der konzeptionellen Überdehnung, diskutiere Ausmaß und Intensität der Europäisierung und schlage eine Taxonomie vor, um das Konzept zu operationalisieren und empirische Forschung zu organisieren. Die Erklärung der Europäisierung fußt auf Mechanismen und Variablen, die noch weiterer Klärung bedürfen, doch können bereits hier einige vorläufige Ergebnisse vorgestellt werden. Weitere Forschung sollte sich auf die Ebene der Politiken (und deren Interaktion mit Makro-Strukturen) konzentrieren und auf gegenseitige Befruchtung mit theoretischer Politikanalyse und Internationalen Beziehungen abzielen, um so das Risiko einer intellektuellen Segregation zu vermeiden. The authorClaudio M. Radaelli, Ph.D., is senior lecturer in Politics in the

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“…Different national regulations might also lead to negative welfare effects due to non-tariff barriers to trade or distortion of competition (leading to problems for the Internal Market in the EU). However, if either preferences and policy objectives connected to a regulatory problem or the extent of market failure problems differ between member states, then decentralised regulatory powers might allow for more 4 See for the relevant economic criteria and the analysis of regulatory competition, e.g., Sun/Pelkmans (1995), Garcimartín (1999), Van den Bergh (2000), Heine/Kerber (2002), Pelkmans (2006, 36-52), Van den Bergh/Camesasca (2006, 406-417), Kerber (2008), and the contributions in Esty/Geradin (2001) and Marciano/Josselin (2002. For the links to the subsidiarity principle see Kirchner (1997) and Backhaus (1998).…”

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Regulatory Networks, Legal Federalism, and Multi-Level Regulatory Systems

Kerber

Wendel

2016

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractTransnational regulatory networks play important roles in multi-level regulatory regimes, as e.g, the European Union. In this paper we analyze the role of regulatory networks from the perspective of the economic theory of legal federalism. Often sophisticated intermediate institutional solutions between pure centralisation and pure decentralisation can help to solve complex tradeoff problems between the benefits and problems of centralised and decentralised solutions. Drawing upon the insights of the political science literature about regulatory networks, we show that regulatory networks might be an institutional innovation that can fulfill a number of functions (rule-making, best practices and policylearning, effective enforcement, conflict resolution) that might allow for a better intermediate solution between centralised and decentralised regulatory powers. We apply our approach in three case studies to very different regulatory networks, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communication (BEREC), the European Competition Network (ECN), and the International Competition Network (ICN). An important result is that regulatory networks might not only be a temporary phenomenon but part of long-term institutional solutions in European multi-level regulatory regimes.

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Regulatory Competition in the Single Market

Cited by 148 publications

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European System of Private Laws: An Economic Perspective

European System of Private Laws: An Economic Perspective

Whither Europeanization? Concept Stretching and Substantive Change

Regulatory Networks, Legal Federalism, and Multi-Level Regulatory Systems

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