Understanding and Regulating the Market at a Time of Globalization : The Case of the Cement Industry

How does a market globalize? How do antitrust and trade policies speed up or slow down the process? How do firms take part in it? The book offers a comprehensive appraisal of the phenomenon from a thorough study of the cement industry. Considered as a model of spatial competition in economic textbooks and inherently local, the industry globalized in the 1980s. Hence, the originality of the book to deal with an extreme case that highlights the fundamental characteristics of globalization.

HERVÉ DUMEZ is Researcher, Centre de Recherche en Gestion, École Polytechnique, Paris. He is co-author with Alain Jeunemaître of La Politique de Concurrence en Europe, and is editor of several books, including Financial Markets Regulation: A Practitioner's Perspective.

ALAIN JEUNEMAITRE is Associate, Regulatory Policy Research Centre, Hertford College, Oxford and Researcher, Centre de Recherche en Gestion, École Polytechnique, Paris. He is co-author with Hervé Dumez of La Politique de Concurrence en Europe and is editor of several books, including Financial Markets Regulation: A Practitioner's Perspective.