Antitrust Systems: Searching Similarities between East Asia and Chile
Globalization: Communication and Cooperation, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China, August 4, 2008
12 Pages Posted: 11 Dec 2008 Last revised: 18 Nov 2015
Date Written: December 11, 2008
Abstract
This paper analyzes the main characteristics of the Antitrust Laws applied to the experiences of three countries in East Asia (China, Korea and Japan) and exploring some similarities with the antitrust system of Chile. The text assumes that the four countries lived in authoritarian regimes that implemented free market economies, and as a consequence of this, a collection of legal rules on monopolies and protection of the Free Competition. Also, all the cases studied are experiencing the phenomena of corporate concentration, which has encouraged to its regulatory agencies to design administrative rules called "Merger Guidelines".
Keywords: East Asia, Chile, Antitrust, Mergers and Acquisitions, Merger Guidelines
JEL Classification: K21; L1; L40
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