Economics

The contributors to this volume explore the future of EU Cohesion Policy, one of the main pillars of the EU budget. With contributions from 15 experts, the volume focuses on the rationale of Cohesion Policy, its economic impacts over 30 years, effectiveness factors, and ways to enhance performance and evaluations.

Globalisation is also a political process. Are its actors aware of their formative role or do they follow the logic of practical constraints? Does supranational integration affirm or limit democracy? And just how significant is law in the context of globalisation? Frank Schorkopf, Jan-Otmar Hesse, Jan Thiessen and Kiran Klaus Pate endeavour to provide answers from historical and legal perspectives.

Lukas Herget's study examines the development of European merger control up to the 1989 Merger Regulation by analysing the role of key actors at supranational, intergovernmental, and national levels, exploring the influence of national regulatory concepts, and revealing the strategies actors used to advance their interests.

In memory of Heike Schweitzer, this volume brings together selected writings of the Kronberger Kreis and thus honors the role of the antitrust lawyer as a bridge builder between different academic disciplines and her tireless commitment to a free legal and economic system.