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,...

Based on the European legal rules on freedom of establishment founders of companies have freedom of choice between different corporate laws – and as the emergence of new types such as the Spanish “lightning company” and the French ‘one-euro company' reveal, legislatures more and more try...

The traditional institutional model of a competition agency has assumed entrusting competition protection to a single authority. Over time, more and more often national competition authorities are being entrusted not only with competition enforcement but also with other functions (tasks). And...