"Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'..."
Introduction
This quote from Alfred, Lord Tennyson might - I sincerely hope after recent events - be…
Introduction
The Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority (the JCRA) has published its recommendations for proposed changes to the island's merger control regime.
Similar recommendations have also…
By
Mark Katz, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
and
Joseph Adler, Hoffer Adler LLP
INTRODUCTION
The Canadian franchise industry constitutes an important sector of the Canadian economy. The…
Paul K Gorecki[1]
The Economic and Social Research Institute & Trinity College Dublin
19 October 2016
Introduction
The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC), formed as a result of…
Resale price maintenance (RPM) occurs when a manufacture or distributor and a wholesaler prevents a retail or distributor from selling below a specified price Since the US Federal Courts decided…
Following an extensive inquiry into Australia’s competition laws, the Australian government has released its proposed overhaul of the law.
The amendments expand the law’s two most significant…
India's competition authority (the CCI) imposed a record-breaking fine of US$750,000 (50 million rupees) on General Electric (GE) earlier this year for failing to notify its tie-up with Alstom S.A.…
On 7 April 2016, the CNMC (Spain's National Authority for Markets and Competition) Council imposed fines totalling €6.12 million on six Spanish nougat ("turrón") producers for agreeing to share the…
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A recent judgment in the Spanish bitumen cartel…
In June 2015, China pushed through a relatively bold liberalization of drug prices, moving from a regime where the government decides the prices or price ranges of the most commonly used drugs to a…
