This paper categorises four different types of monopoly over which competition for-the-market might occur, explains the practice of governments granting concessionary rights to firms, and identifies that the design of the processes for awarding such rights is commonly used to facilitate...

This paper revisits barriers to exit, explores their different definitions in the literature and identifies what these have in common. It then analyses the different ways in which such barriers to exit can affect allocative efficiency and competition while assessing their impacts by looking at...

Economic analysis is central to effective merger review. This paper was prepared as background for a discussion on Economic Analysis in Merger Investigations held at the 2020 OECD Global Forum on Competition.

Expanding markets for clean and efficient technologies will increase energy security and help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But many promising technologies are still too expensive or face other obstacles to commercial deployment. Realising the potential for a cleaner and more secure energy...

Since 2000, the economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan has been growing at an annual rate of between 8%-9%, making it one of the ten highest performing economies in the world. Kazakhstan alone attracts more foreign direct investment than all other Central Asian countries together. To date, the...

This paper was prepared as a background note for a discussion held in June 2014 by the OECD Competition Committee on Airline Competition with the aim of examining the main competition issues in the sector and how competition enforcement authorities have been dealing with them.