Ehlermann, Claus-Dieter; Kovacic, William E.; Spagnolo, Giancarlo; Wils, Wouter P.J. --- "Economic and Legal Implications of Criminal Competition Law Enforcement: Discussion by Panel" [2006] ELECD 453; in Cseres, J. Katalin; Schinkel, Pieter Maarten; Vogelaar, O.W. Floris (eds), "Criminalization of Competition Law Enforcement" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006)

Book Title: Criminalization of Competition Law Enforcement

Editor(s): Cseres, J. Katalin; Schinkel, Pieter Maarten; Vogelaar, O.W. Floris

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781845426088

Section: Chapter 7

Section Title: Economic and Legal Implications of Criminal Competition Law Enforcement: Discussion by Panel

Author(s): Ehlermann, Claus-Dieter; Kovacic, William E.; Spagnolo, Giancarlo; Wils, Wouter P.J.

Number of pages: 9

Extract:

7. Economic and legal implications
of criminal competition law
enforcement: discussion by panel
Presider: Claus-Dieter Ehlermann
Participants: William E. Kovacic
Giancarlo Spagnolo
Andreas P. Reindl
Wouter P.J. Wils
Interventions: Arnoud Boot University of
Amsterdam
Lorenzo Pace University of
Rome

Professor Ehlermann Thank you very much, Mr Spagnolo, for these
stimulating remarks. We will see how my colleagues react to your suggestions.
What seems to be important to me, and that is what you reflect clearly, is
that the overall cultural environment in which one lives, independently of
whether one is a lawyer or an economist, has an important bearing on the
issues we discuss today. I would recognize the southern part of Italy, for
instance ­ south of Rome, not so much north of the city ­ presents particular
problems. One has to take into account in this debate the dimension of
human behaviour; how different individuals react to different phenomena.
In the Protestant north of Europe, this is not necessarily the same as in the
Catholic south. In particular, if you have a lack of presence of the state,
somebody steps in and affects your law enforcement.
Having said that, I would like my colleagues to react. Bill [Kovacic, eds],
do you have large points of agreement? The others perhaps less: we are all
inclined to be hesitant about the rewarding of wrongdoers. But there you
have a clear point of convergence with Giancarlo [Spagnolo, eds].


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Professor Kovacic I have a few comments. ...