In spite of the ASEAN goal of harmonising national competition policies and laws, the ASEAN Member States (AMSs) adopt an array of different approaches towards a number of procedural and substantive competition law issues, including the substantive appraisal of vertical agreements. The question...

Although competition law and IP law probably pursue complementary goals, competition laws can:(i) affect remedies available for patent infringement; and/or otherwise,(ii) limit the conduct of patentees, particularly when transferring or licensing their patents. This chapter discusses the cases...

This paper provides comments on the investigation by the US House Judiciary Committee (“the Committee”) into the state of competition in the digital marketplace. The comments focus on the third topic identified by the Committee:"Whether the institutional structure of antitrust enforcement...

The concept of an ‘undertaking’ determines the categories of actors to which the competition rules apply, as well as which of the specific rules apply. Settled case-law establishes that the concept encompasses every entity engaged in economic activity. Further, that it is not necessarily...

The EU Courts have regularly been called upon to engage with the object/effect dichotomy set out in Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). This series of cases illustrates, that although the distinction between by object and by effect restrictions is...

This article examines how illiberal changes, both in the political system and the economy, by populist governments in Hungary and Poland are increasing the risk of corruption and collusion in public procurement processes in those countries. It notes that these developments have significant...

This comprehensive research Handbook brings together cutting-edge legal and economic analysis into antitrust issues by leading experts from Europe, the USA, Canada, Mexico and South America. The Handbook also includes discursive consideration of the similarities and differences among the various...

The Internet financial reporting language known as XBRL continues to develop and has now reached the point where much of its promised benefits are available. The authors look at the history of this project, provide a case study of how Morgan Stanley has made use of the system and predict some...

The Brazilian competition agencies have been implementing some very important initiatives to further increment the effectiveness of their enforcement activities. Caio Mário da Silva Pereira Neto & Paulo Leonardo Casagrande, Brasil, Pereira Neto, Galdino, Macedo Advogados

The approved legal framework will certainly open a new era of the Brazilian competition policy. Caio Mário da Silva Pereira Neto & Paulo Leonardo Casagrande (Brasil, Pereira Neto, Galdino, Macedo Advogados)