The antitrust policy is built through antitrust agency's decisions that are, in Brazil, pronounced by CADE. To appraise CADE's decisions, thus, is to appraise the antitrust policy in Brazil. This implies that is necessary to know if such decisions are consistent with the antitrust theory. The...

Portuguese Abstract: Os segredos de negócio são uma matéria que não tem recebido uma atenção proporcional à sua importância económica. Este artigo visa fazer uma descrição breve do regime português do segredos de negócio. Assim, começa por apresentar algumas razões para a...

While often times the Hypothetical Monopolist Test (HMT) utilized in relevant market delineation is implemented with uniform price increases throughout all the goods in the candidate relevant market, since 1984 the versions of the U.S. Merger Guidelines have emphasized that these small but...

The essay intends to analyze the competition policy in Brazil after twelve years of the Law n. 8.884/1994, which has effectively inaugurated it. Thus, it initiates with a historical approach, exposing the principal premises that guide this public policy exercise. Utilizing data from the...

The essay intends to analyze the competition policy in Brazil after twelve years of the Law n. 8.884/1994, which has effectively inaugurated it. Thus, it initiates with a historical approach, exposing the principal premises that guide this public policy exercise. Utilizing data from the...

While often times the Hypothetical Monopolist Test (HMT) utilized in relevant market delineation is implemented with uniform price increases throughout all the goods in the candidate relevant market, since 1984 the versions of the U.S. Merger Guidelines have emphasized that these small but...

The antitrust theory, used as the economic guide to analyze market concentration - mergers, acquisitions, and anticompetitive conducts, has been changed for the last few decades. The primary concern with market structure was replaced by the economic efficiency approach, balancing the potential...

In this paper we investigate the concentration in health insurance sector in Brazil. In order to conduct this analysis it is necessary to establish the definition of relevant market in product and geographical dimensions. In this paper we apply a methodology based on gravitation models to define...

Portuguese Abstract: A intensificação das transações feitas pela internet ocasionou o surgimento de um novo fenômeno econômico, que clama por mudanças na teoria concorrencial, na medida em que a tradicional análise não é suficiente para lidar com essa nova realidade. O antigo conceito...

Portuguese Abstract: O processo de evolução das políticas de defesa da concorrência tradicionalmente acontece com algum atraso em relação à evolução econômica outras palavras, a defesa da concorrência sofre com um período de defasagem até ser devidamente informada pelas teorias...