The paper is concerned with documenting and assessing statements made by policymakers, opinion formers, and other stakeholders in favour and against the adoption of competition laws with particular reference to transition and developing countries which have not yet enacted these kind of laws....

The paper is concerned with documenting and assessing statements made by policy-makers, opinion formers, and other stakeholders in favour and against the adoption of competition laws with particular reference to transition and developing countries which have not yet enacted these kind of laws....

We present a model of policy development in which competing factions have different ideologies, yet agree on certain common objectives. Policy developers can appeal to a decisionmaker by making productive investments to improve the quality of their proposals. These investments are specific to a...

Stephen Weymouth’s article, ‘‘Competition Politics: Interest Groups, Democracy, and Antitrust Reform in Developing Countries,’’ argues that the political determinants of competition policy reform, which includes both competition legislation and its enforcement, lie at the intersection...