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The paper explores what macroeconomic factors can tell us about the effectiveness of recently enacted national competition laws. Qualitative evidence suggests that numerous countries fall short in implementing competition law. Furthermore, there seems to be significant differences between...
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The TRIPS Agreement allows WTO Members to enact and apply appropriate domestic competition law to address IPR-related anti-competitive practices. However, these flexibilities in the TRIPS Agreement do not provide any specific guidance for WTO Members. The application of domestic competition law...
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European Community law has played a pivotal role in opening to competition economic sectors previously under the control of public monopolies. As with other sectors such as telecommunications, air transport, electricity, gas, and rail, the postal sector has succumbed to the wave of...
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In its March 2016 Opinion in the Genentech case, Advocate General Wathelet raised the complex question of the standard of review that should be applied by domestic courts when asked to set aside or declare unenforceable arbitral awards on the ground that they breach EU competition rules, which...
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This is a time of passionate debate on the fundamental goals of competition law. Should there be a single overarching goal for all of competition law and policy? Should that goal be framed in purely economic terms? Should antitrust focus on protecting the competitive process, preventing unfair...
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the analysis of the enactment of competition laws across the world. Specifically, the paper focuses on three political …
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economies and competition law to protect those economies. No one could have predicted that within twenty years most of the world … move from the world of 1991 to the world of the present where over one hundred twenty jurisdictions have some recognizable … systems around the world, advised many of them, traveled relentlessly to dozens of these jurisdictions, and represented the …
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This article starts with the cautionary note that an alternative approach for international cooperation in competition law and policy is needed. After the Doha Trade Talk, negotiations about this issue reached a deadlock, so there is no longer any prospect of the WTO assuming this responsibility...
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This paper is an account of the institutions of antitrust enforcement and adjudication in nine jurisdictions, across six continents, and the four principal international bodies involved with issues of antitrust. It synthesizes nine studies that illuminate the inner workings of each of systems in...
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