Changes and Challenges in Regulating Market Competition Through Law and Policy

Abstract

The papers in this panel examine the causes and consequences of the adoption of competition laws and policies at the national level, including the rapid spread of such market competition-regulatory laws and policies to developing countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, which in recent years have changed the geographic scope as well as the political logic of antitrust/competition law and policy. The papers individually and joint also examine the new challenges of transgovernmental regulatory coordination and cooperation in the absence of a global regime and the (non)suitability of competition law and policy for addressing various challenging issues of regulatory governance.