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Building New Competition Law Regimes

Building New Competition Law Regimes

Author: David Lewis
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781781953723
Published In: May 2013
Format: Hardback , 224 pages
Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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This detailed book focuses on the development of competition law institutions and contains case studies that examine this against the backdrop of the debate around global convergence of competition law and the limits imposed by particular national circumstances.

Five of the chapters examine the development of competition law regimes in a diverse range of countries: Mexico, Hungary, South Africa, Thailand (with comparative remarks on South Korea) and Zambia. The remaining chapters examine the role of multinational institutions, particularly the International Competition Network, and the practice of and potential for regional competition law arrangements. The majority of the authors are seasoned practitioners of competition law, all of whom acknowledge the importance of convergence, while simultaneously demonstrating the limits imposed by divergent national circumstances. This carefully edited collection is a companion volume to Enforcing Competition Rules in South Africa, an account of the development of competition law institutions in South Africa, authored by David Lewis and published by Edward Elgar.

Building New Competition Law Regimes will be of particular benefit to scholars, teachers and practitioners of competition law. It will also be of interest to development studies scholars, teachers and practitioners and to specialists in the countries that are the subjects of the case studies.

Preface – David Lewis

PART I: COUNTRY STUDIES
1. Competition Policy in Mexico
Heidi Claudia Sada Correa and Eduard Perez Motta

2. The Evolution of the Hungarian Competition Regime
Csaba Kovacs and Andreas P. Reindl

3. Pigeon-holed by Precedent: Form versus Substance in the Application of South African Competition Law
Janice Bleazard

4. The Political Economic of the Competition Regimes in Thailand and Korea: A Comparison
Deunden Nikomborirak

5. Promoting SMMEs in the Formal and Informal Economy in Zambia: The Role of Competition Law
Thula Kaira

PART II: MULTINATIONAL ISSUES AND INITIATIVES
6. The Past and Future of International Antitrust: Gaps, Overlaps and the Institutional Challenge
Eleanor Fox, John Fingleton and Sophie Mitchell

7. Regional Agreements
Alberto Heimler and Frederic Jenny

Index

David Lewis, Executive Director, Corruption Watch and Extraordinary Professor, Gordon Institute of Business Science, South Africa

‘Nearly every important country now has a competition law. It is vital to understand the institutions that drive the operation of these laws. This excellent volume provides case studies of some of the more substantial new competition authorities written by former or current top agency officials and academics closely connected with those institutions. The book highlights the fact that whilst these institutions have certain features in common, they are very much shaped by the history and circumstances of their own countries and cultures, and that any serious prescription for them needs to balance those factors against the general economic doctrines that lie behind competition law around the world. Without that understanding, regulators and those dealing with them are likely to face failure. The book points to ways of resolving those problems.’
– Allan Fels, The Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG)