Tag: Policy
Intellectual Property and Transactional Choice: Rethinking the IP/Antitrust Dichotomy
It is common to characterize patents as monopolies. This assumption, which underlies the standard dichotomy between intellectual property and antitrust law, is challenged by...
Identifying Barriers to Entry: A South African Perspective
By Willem H. Boshoff1
Abstract:
Barriers to entry are now a core concern of South African competition policy. Conventionally, entry barriers represent one factor relevant to...
Dysfunction Junction: U.S. Merger Review Under the Biden Administration
By Lindsey M. Edwards1
Introduction
Antitrust enforcers, practitioners, and scholars descended upon Washington, D.C. this month for the ABA’s 70th Annual Section of Antitrust Law Spring...
Competition Policy and Regulation in China’s Digital Economy
Some believe that China is strictly supervising its digital economy. This text hopes to provide a different perspective. This article reviews the development process...
Antitrust Chronicle® – Asia Pacific: Opportunities & Challenges
Dear Readers,
This edition of the CPI Antitrust Chronicle® sets out recent antitrust enforcement, policy and legislative developments and trends in the Asia-Pacific (“APAC”) region....
Recent Developments in Competition Policy in Japan
The digital economy continues to grow massively worldwide, and agencies around the world have been exploring options for greater regulation in the digital economy,...
Competition Policy and Start-Ups in India
Technology has spurred innovation in the market. In India, the number of start-ups has rallied up significantly. They are playing a pivotal role to...
Going Backwards: The FTC’s New Prior Approval Policy
By John M. Yun1
On October 25, 2021, in a 3-to-2 vote, strictly along party lines, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced a major policy...
Market Studies: Making All the Difference?
By Francesco Naismith & Baethan Mullen1
Market studies have recently risen to prominence in Australia’s competition policy. Reviews of energy markets, financial services, insurance, agriculture,...
Can Crypto Fix Itself in Time?
Payment methods have a high degree of inertia making change slow and challenging for new alternatives. So it is not surprising that crypto currencies...
