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Harmonization: Consumer Protection

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This contribution gives an overview of law and economic works on consumer protection. It does so by taking three complementary angles: (1) assessing harmonization efforts regarding consumer protection in Europe, (2) presenting selected topics of substantive consumer law, and (3) analyzing the European consumer law enforcement from an economic point of view.

I wish to thank Roger van den Bergh for the valuable comments on an earlier version of this contribution.

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  1. Faculty of Law, Institute of Law and Economics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Franziska Weber

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  1. MRE and University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

    Alain Marciano

  2. Faculté d’Economie, Université de Montpellier and LAMETA-UMR CNRS, Montpellier, France

    Alain Marciano

  3. DiGSPES, University of Eastern Piedmont, Alessandria, Italy

    Giovanni Battista Ramello

  4. IEL, Torino, Italy

    Giovanni Battista Ramello

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Weber, F. (2019). Harmonization: Consumer Protection. In: Marciano, A., Ramello, G.B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7753-2_529

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