With European Union electricity markets moving away from legal monopolies and vertical integration towards a more competitive market design promoted from the top down, Member States' antitrust authorities have become a means of impacting the structuring the competitive behavior of electricity markets. This volume analyzes the challenges of using antitrust policy in this area. The two main goals of the work are to conduct an assessment of the strategy of the European Commission on long-term contracts within and across member states as revealed by antitrust cases and regulatory decisions and judged against economic theory and to consider the extent to which the outcome of EU antitrust enforcement is influenced by economic theory and what extent it can be explained by current dynamics of regulatory practice. Annotation ⓒ2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)