An Institutional Assessment of Antitrust Policy: The Latin American Experience
Antitrust policy nominally plays an instrumental public interest role. The generally accepted notion is that it is a government instrument designed to intervene in relatively unregulated markets in order to preserve rivalry among independent buyers and sellers. Competition authorities are supposed to restrain business conduct that exercises monopoly power aimed at excluding competitors or exploiting consumers and clients. Thus it can be said – although few pro-market theorists make the...
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Antitrust policy nominally plays an instrumental public interest role. The generally accepted notion is that it is a government instrument designed to intervene in relatively unregulated markets in order to preserve rivalry among independent buyers
Foreword. Introduction. I. The Wellsprings of Latin American Competition Policy. 1. The Cultural Background of Anti-market Institutions in Latin America. 2. Neoclassical Market Competition: A Look into the Anatomy of Economic Utopia. II. Latin American Antitrust Policy: Utopia in Practice. 3. Monopoly Power Assessment. 4. Consumer Welfare Analysis. 5. Horizontal Mergers. 6. Horizontal Restraints. 7. Vertical Restraints. 8. Unilateral Restraints. 9. Antitrust Policy in Regulated Industries. III. Institutional Assessment of Latin American Antitrust Policy. 10. Rule Stability versus Antitrust Enforcement. 11. Latin American Competition Agencies: Renewed Government Interventionism. 12. Latin American Competition Advocacy: The Neglected Agenda. 13. Latin American Antitrust Policy in a Country-to-Country Perspective. 14. Conclusions: Overcoming the Antitrust Utopia. 15. Bibliography. Index of Figures. Index of Tables. Index of Cases. List of Statutes.
