This paper looks at some practical and analytical challenges to the application of the traditional tools of competition enforcement analysis in these markets. It then discusses ways to overcome such challenges and proposed adjustments to these tools suggested in the recent literature, as well as...

This paper was prepared as a background note for a discussion held in June 2014 by the OECD Competition Committee on Airline Competition with the aim of examining the main competition issues in the sector and how competition enforcement authorities have been dealing with them.

The OECD Competition Committee debated competition policy and international airport services in June 1997. This document includes an executive summary, an analytical note by the OECD staff and written submissions from Australia, Austria, Canada, the European Commission, Germany, Hungary, Italy,...

This paper explores the different regulatory roles within the financial sector; the tensions and complementarities that can exist between the role of a competition agency and regulators, in particular central banks and discussed the ways in which agencies can ensure they co-operate effectively....

This paper was prepared as a background note for discussions on “Competition and Professional Sports” taking place at the December 2023 session of the OECD Competition Committee’s Working Party No. 2 on Competition and Regulation.

This paper reviews the economic debate around aftermarkets and how it has influenced the legal approach to assessing aftermarket concerns. It examines the main enforcement issues related to aftermarket cases, focussing on the key questions of market definition and market power. It was prepared...

Fighting poverty remains a top priority and a key challenge to many countries including in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Although LAC countries have strengthened their competition policy in the past decade, poverty has increased in the region, mostly as effect of the recession which...

This paper reviews how competition and the existence of anticompetitive practices have recently evolved in the supermarket sector in Latin America. It was prepared as background material for the session "Structural Issues in the Groceries Sector" held at the 2015 Latin American and Caribbean...

This paper focuses on developments in competition agency policies relating to corporate compliance programmes targeting in particular cartels. It was prepared as background for a discussion on competition compliance programme held in June 2021.