Comparative Analusis Of Antitrust Policy Against Collusion In Some Transition Economies: Challenges For Effectiveness

Andrey Makarov ()
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Abstract: This article focuses on the development of antitrust policy in transition economies in the context of preventing explicit and tacit collusion. Experience of BRICS, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and CEE countries (Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Estonia) in the creation of antitrust institutions was analyzed, including both legislation and enforcement practice. This article analyzes such enforcement problems as: classification problems (tacit vs explicit collusion, vertical vs horizontal agreements), flexibility of prohibitions (“per se” vs “rule of reason”), design of sanctions, private enforcement challenge, leniency program mechanisms, the role of antitrust authorities etc. Main challenges for policy effectiveness in this field were shown

Keywords: collusion; antitrust policy; leniency program; transition economies; CEE; BRICS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K21 L41 L42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2014
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Published in WP BRP Series: Public Administration / PA, December 2014, pages 1-31

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