This article examines whether, and the extent to which, antitrust law could contribute to a broader regulatory effort to control the too-big-to-fail problem. The article begins by exploring the nature of the problem. Against this backdrop, it considers antitrust policy and rules to evaluate...

The Public Competition Enforcement Review (Shaun Goodman, ed., London: Law Business Research, 2010) provides a guide to the work of competition authorities worldwide, and the consequences for business, featuring analysis of key cases, developments and hot topics, as well as clarifying what...

The paper first summarizes the benefits of competition, i.e. why competitive markets are more efficient than oligopolistic or monopolistic markets, and the threats to competitive markets from cartels, concentration, and government interference. In the main part, the paper presents the key...

In both antitrust and merger cases, remedies serve the same purpose, namely, to stop the infringement of competition and restore competition. However, the practice of remedy policy in these two areas is varied, e.g., structural remedies are preferred in merger cases but strictly limited in...

In the context of globalization the shift from the national to the global has become an economic reality and advanced the emergence of regional integration groups alongside regional competition policies. In the same vein, the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) has adopted a...

This article looks at the definition, conditions and evidence necessary to establish that a price squeeze is an exclusionary abuse, and thus an infringement of EC competition law. It shows that the necessary conditions are demanding, and that the empirical test for a price squeeze must be...