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 --...

Klappentext: While the link between trade liberalisation and labour rights has been mostly studied at a national level, this book analyses this relation at a sectoral level. It draws on case studies of oil palm plantations and the automobile sector in Indonesia. Two main research questions guide...

We use leximetric data coding techniques and panel data econometrics to test for the economic effects of laws governing worker representation and industrial action in the large middle-income countries of Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa. We find that more worker-protective laws on...