This open access book provides answers to key open questions concerning competition policy in emerging economies, with a focus on South Eastern Europe. The contributions address two major issues. One is the design of competition policy and the national competition authorities that enforce it,...

This is a survey of the economic principles that underlie antitrust law and how those principles relate to competition policy. We address four core subject areas: market power, collusion, mergers between competitors, and monopolization. In each area, we select the most relevant portions of...

Introduction -- The emergence of competition policy regimes -- The errors of antitrust -- The performance gap -- What is competition policy? -- Sources of error in antitrust practice -- What is different in developing and transition economies? -- The political economy of antitrust enforcement --...