The justification for closing any enforcement gap should be informed by a practical judgment that the potential concerns identified are sufficiently material to warrant intervention. Bojana Ignjatovic & Derek Ridyard (RBB Economics)

In the 16 years since the OECD began conducting Economic Surveys of the Russian Federation, a great many policy recommendations relating to structural reform and framework conditions have been made. This paper, expanding on Annex 1.A1 in the 2011 OECD Economic Survey of the Russian Federation,...

Napriek tomu, že právny rámec Svetovej obchodnej organizácie (WTO) neobsahuje ucelený komplex pravidiel hospodárskej súťaže, cieľom článku je analyzovať možnosti využitia tohto rámca na účely ochrany hospodárskej súťaže v globálnom meradle. Článok poukazuje na niektoré...

A bidding ring is a collection of bidders who collude in an auction in order to gain greater surplus by depressing competition. This entry describes some typical bidding rings and provides an introduction to the related theoretical and empirical literature.

The Ec directive on unfair commercial practices does not seem to have a direct impact, in terms of changes, additions or exceptions, on Italian private law, but in any case it is likely to produce indirect consequences on commercial law

The administrative courts have been providing useful clarifications on many of the fundamental concepts of the unfair commercial practices law. Nevertheless, they have been too deferential towards the Italian Antitrust Authority, whose decisions they have often upheld on the basis of not...

Colluding firms often exchange private information and make transfers within the cartels based on the information. Estimating the impact of such collusive practices— known as the “lysine strategy profile (LSP)â€â€” on cartel duration is difficult because of endogeneity and...

It is commonly believed that the possibility to sue privately for antitrust damages decreases the number of type II errors in enforcement at the cost of creating more type I errors. We extend the analysis by taking into account the fact that private parties often submit evidence during public...

Antitrust scholars have argued that exclusive contracts have anticompetitive, or at best neutral effects, if no efficiencies are generated. In contrast, this paper shows that exclusive contracts can have procompetitive effects, provided buyers are imperfect downstream competitors and contract...

There is potential for conflict and overlap between the industry-specific regulations and competition law when considering the rules of both the Anti-Monopoly Law and the Anti-Unfair Competition Law in China. Li Huiying (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology)