International Regulatory Competition and Coordination: Perspectives on Economic Regulation in Europe and the United States

This collection of essays by an international group of lawyers and social scientists makes what amounts to a substantive assertion: globalization is not a leap into an economic cyberspace that renders obsolete existing frameworks for understanding the influence of markets on regulation and regulation on markets. Factors that render intelligible the regulatory implications of global product competition can be identified in local, state, national, and international institutions and regulations, and in the mediative activities of the lawyers and other intermediaries. This volume reviews regulatory competition theory, tracing the theory's deployment along parallel lines both within Europe and the USA.