Promoting Competition in Global Markets: A Multi-National Approach (Elgar Monographs)

By P.J. Lloyd and Kerrin M. Vautier

This book sheds new light on a major issue on the international trade policy agenda - the promotion and defence of competition in globalizing markets. The liberalization of cross-border flows of goods, services and capital that has occurred during the last decade has made competition increasingly important. The authors discuss multi-national approaches to competition policy in the WTO, European Union, the Americas, OECD, UNCTAD and CER. They investigate the policy responses to anti-competitive, cross-border business transactions and argue that a growing reliance on competition law is not in itself sufficient to promote competition in globalizing markets. They conclude that to achieve genuine competition in globalizing markets, policymakers must have a more comprehensive and coherent policy governed by agreed competition principles.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1858988039
• ISBN13: 9781858988030
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 232 Pages
• Dimensions: 50.0" x 25.0"