This paper examines the role of competition policy in emerging markets from a developmental and international perspective. The main issues addressed include the following: • The state of competition and competition policy in developing countries; • The relationship between competition, competition policy and economic development; • The implications of the recent new advances in the theory of in...

the wto is an international organization which arranges international commercial rules and disputes settlements. increasingly joining of countries to the wto and movement for freedom of commercial regime in industrial or developing countries are deniable testimonies for globalization. gradual reduction of tariff and competition in exports and internal markets by their advantages have jeopardize...

The major factors of insecurity in the East, away from the security of geopolitical area were because of the formation of political management in the nineteenth century colonial style. The security factor in the vast region of the East that encompasses at least three countries of Iran and Afghanistan and Pakistan is very important and highly effective. It reached its peak colonial Anglo-Russian...

The paper explores what macroeconomic factors can tell us about the effectiveness of recently enacted national competition laws. Qualitative evidence suggests that numerous countries fall short in implementing competition law. Furthermore, there seems to be significant differences between countries. To examine what factors might contribute to the explanation of effectiveness of competition law ...

The main objective of this paper is to examine the state of adoption and implementation of competition rules in the 12 Southern Mediterranean countries (the "Mediterranean Partners") engaged in association agreements with the EC in the framework of the Barcelona Declaration of November 1995.

I estimate a logistic model of mobile communications diffusion to examine the impact of competition on cellular penetration in former socialist countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Not surprisingly, I find that the introduction of competition led to a higher speed of adoption of mobile technology. Perhaps more surprisingly, sequential competition had a greater impact than simultaneous ...