There are a variety of legitimate reasons why competitors may need or simply wish to collaborate. Firms may collaborate in order to finance innovation and improve the quality or variety of their existing products, to develop new and superior products, to expand to new markets, or to improve...

Competition authorities have several tools at their disposal in crafting a competition policy. Most prominent are litigation and merger review. A less-recognized but often effective tool, however, is "competition advocacy." Broadly, competition advocacy is using persuasion, rather than coercion,...

We present a model of policy development in which competing factions have different ideologies, yet agree on certain common objectives. Policy developers can appeal to a decisionmaker by making productive investments to improve the quality of their proposals. These investments are specific to a...

This thesis draws a picture of how an effective competition law regime in Ghana should look like by making proposals on the competition law and policy best suited for the Ghanaian market. It has become commonplace among relevant scholarly circles that indeed one size does not fit all and that a...

Regional Competitiveness can be defined as the region's potential in the long run enforce economically in competition with other regions while maintaining social cohesion and environmental sustainability. This ability is determined by many factors, such as innovation, technological progress,...