The world's biggest consumer markets—the European Union and the United States—have adopted different approaches to regulating competition. This has not only put the European Union and the United States at odds in high‐profile investigations of anticompetitive conduct, but also made them race to spread their regulatory models. Using a novel dataset of competition statutes, we investigate this race to influence the world's regulatory landscape and find that E.U. competition laws have been more widely emulated than the U.S. antitrust laws. We then argue that both “push” and “pull” factors explain the appeal of the E.U. competition regime: the European Union actively promotes its model through preferential trade agreements and has an administrative template that is easy to emulate. As E.U. and U.S. regulators offer competing regulatory models in domains as diverse as privacy, finance, and environmental protection, our study sheds light on how global regulatory races are fought and won.

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欧洲竞争法对美国反托拉斯法的全球支配地位

全球最大的消费市场（欧盟和美国）采用了不同的方法来规范竞争。这不仅使欧盟和美国在反竞争行为的高调调查中处于矛盾之中，而且使它们竞相传播其监管模式。通过使用新颖的竞争法规数据集，我们调查了这场竞争对全球监管格局的影响，发现与美国反托拉斯法相比，欧盟竞争法得到了更广泛的模仿。然后，我们认为“推动”和“拉动”因素都可以解释欧盟竞争机制的吸引力：欧盟通过优惠贸易协定积极推广其模式，并具有易于模仿的管理模板。作为欧盟和美国