This Guide suggests an approach that competition authorities could refer to when carrying out an impact assessment of …

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, including the topics of competition advocacy and state aid control …

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 -- International Harmonization of competition policy -- The limits …

This paper investigates a dataset that codes key features of the competition laws of 102 countries. It first compares … mergers. The second question examined in this paper is whether competition law has any effect on the intensity of competition … within a nation. We find, in ordinary least squares regressions, that the scope of a country's competition law is positively …

, the intensity of local competition and the standard of living. Perception data from the World Economic Forum is used to …This paper explores the relationship between competition policy, experience of the application of competition policy … measure the intensity of local competition. Richer and larger countries in general introduce competition policy earlier than …

, the intensity of local competition and the standard of living. Perception data from the World Economic Forum is used to …This paper explores the relationship between competition policy, experience of the application of competition policy … measure the intensity of local competition. Richer and larger countries in general introduce competition policy earlier than …