Legal traditions and competition policy

Does Legal Tradition Affect Competition Policy Performance?

During the early 1990’s, in the early days of the worldwide competition policy boom, Spencer Waller and Joshua Newberg argued that difficulties inherent in grafting common law concepts---such as antitrust---onto non common law traditions would undermine the administration of competition law in non common law tradition countries. Recent independent survey data on the performance of competition p...

Entrepreneurial Innovations , Competition and Competition Policy

We construct a model where an entrepreneur could 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 reduces entrants’ and acquirers’ profits in a similar fashion, but also reduces the profit of non-acquirers. Therefore, incumbents’ valuations of innovations are less nega...

Competition, Competition Policy, Competitiveness, Globalisation and Development

This paper explores the relationship between globalization, competition, competition policy and competitiveness. It is important to note that although these notions are related, they are conceptually different. This paper contributes by providing a theoretical framework for the main issues which arise in the modern discussion of competition and competition policies in economic development. It a...

Competition law, competition policy, and deregulation

Nykvist, from an anonymous referee and from the editors of this journal.

Advocacy and Competition Policy