Sixty Years of EU State Aid Law and Policy: Analysis and Assessment' provides a critical review of State aid, from its evolution to the practical implementation of current rules. If an EU industrial policy can be said to exist, its contours may be found in the complex and evolving concept of...

This paper aims to analyze the interfaces between Brazilian Competition Law and the issue of access to medicines, with a special focus on abuse of industrial property rights and related exclusionary and exploitative effects. The paper analyzes the case law of Brazilian Administrative Council for...

This Article investigates whether all stakeholder groups share the same understanding and useof the relevant terms and concepts of the DSA and DMA. Leveraging the power ofcomputational text analysis, we find significant differences in the employment ofterms like “gatekeepers,”...

There has been calls from various organizations and key policy makers arguing that, countries must adopt effective trade policies and measures that should seek to maintain the trade during the COVID-19 pandemic. So what is the way forward for Africa? This paper briefly discusses the role...

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 --...

This paper investigates a dataset that codes key features of the competition laws of 102 countries. It first compares the scope of the laws overall, and of various subcomponents such as the law governing dominance, collusive conduct, and mergers. The second question examined in this paper is...

The paper looks at two aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic. These are (i) the nature of this event and its implication for evaluating past policy and policy into the future, and (ii) the suitability of proposed changes in the implementation of competition policy affecting firm behaviour, market...