As the embodiment of classical competition, freedom of contract was still a fundamental notion for the American … economists of the Gilded Age. For this reason, it played a key role in the controversies about competition and regulation that …

willing to revive old antitrust doctrines if it wishes to continue to protect competition and consumers. The monopoly …

Empirical work shows that competition is important for promoting economic growth. However, in Japan the promotion of … competition has long been compromised by ministerial guidance and exemptions from the competition law. Thus, the level and growth … Japanese economy had difficulty in coming out of the quasi-stagnation of the past decade. Recognising that gains from more pro-competition …

. Competition has an important role to play in achieving such gains. However, Korea’s development strategy has tended to weaken … competition and has left a legacy of government intervention. Strengthening competition requires upgrading competition policy …

competition is important for promoting economic growth. Recognising the benefits of competition, the government wants to introduce … regulatory reforms to stimulate economic growth. However, the promotion of competition has often conflicted with other policy … competition in a number of sectors, resulting in high prices, weak innovative activity and inefficient resource allocation …

. Available cross-country evidence suggests that enhancing competition is an important means to improve economic performance …. France is catching up with best practice in competition policy reform. However, other policy considerations often hamper the … emergence of effective competition. Relatively weak competitive pressures remain in a number of sectors, particularly in …

Competition agency guidelines, policy statements and related advocacy are an important vehicle for policy expression … guidelines and policy statements has, arguably, been particularly important in the context of the competition policy treatment of … intellectual property rights, given the complexity of this area, the importance that competition agencies attach to it, and its …

This document (of 271 pages) contains the proceedings of a one-day roundtable on competition and regulation issues in … which set out in detail the regulatory regime and the competition issues that have arisen in the insurance industry in each … country. The document also includes a background paper prepared by the OECD secretariat on the issues raised for competition …

being made. In this Article, we examine the economic principles that should govern competition and regulatory policies … Canadian cable television industry should be protected from competition while it upgrades its network to provide interactive …