Market definition, and, in particular, being able to identify who is in which product market, lies at the heart of competition law. The identification of demand elasticities necessary to conduct a formal definition of product market can be time consuming and often there is insufficient data to...

In 2014 the Prudential Regulation Authority, Bank of England, was given a new secondary objective to facilitate effective competition when it advances its primary objectives related to safety and soundness and policyholder protection. Given the concerns around conflict between competition and...