The paper critically reviews and describes the activities undertaken by the Italian Antitrust Authority (IAA) in its first two decades of action. As an independent Authority, it has the status of a public agency whose decisions are taken on the basis of The Italian Competition and Fair Trading...

Il contributo rilegge criticamente il rapporto tra presidio pubblico della concorrenza e azioni di danno promosse dalle vittime di illeciti antitrust. L'impostazione tradizionale assumeva che il compito di arginare deviazioni monopolistiche corrispondesse a un interesse pubblico e dovesse, di...

Questo contributo si propone di esplorare il nesso tra interesse pubblico e interesse privato con riferimento al risarcimento del danno antitrust. Questo proposito è stato declinato sia su un piano generale, di analisi normativa, sia su un piano più concreto di analisi positiva, prendendo in...

Il contributo analizza il legame tra politica della concorrenza e recessione economica. In particolare, viene approfondito il tema della fiducia nella capacità degli assetti concorrenziali di produrre effetti positivi, messa sostanzialmente a rischio dalla crisi finanziaria e dallo stato di...

Applying a conjectural variations (CV) model introduced by Haskel and Scaramozzino (H&S model 1997), the paper examines the impact of trade liberalization on the Philippine cement industry where alleged cartel activities have taken place after the entry of the world's Big Three cement firms:...

The Philippines is one of the countries in Southeast Asia that has experienced massive capital inflows. Being a latecomer in this arena, it can avoid the undesirable effects of these inflows by drawing lessons from the experiences of Latin American and other Asian countries. This paper provides...

The paper examines the policies pursued by the Philippines in response to the increasing economic integration and interdependence of nations and regions around the world, focusing in particular on the country’s multitrack approach to trade and investment liberalization. The country’s...

From a methodological perspective, this paper aims to review the various means to assess a competition agency?s merger decision. The upward trend to measure the efficiency of competition policy shows the utility of a survey about the main existing quantitative tools. To this end, four different...

We construct a model where an entrepreneur can innovate for entry or for sale. It is shown that increased product market competition tends to increase the relative profitability of innovation for sale. Increased competition not only reduces the profits of entrants and the acquirer of the...