Symposium: Success and Limits of Competition Law and Policy in Developing Countries

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Tim Buthe

Technische Universität München (TUM) - School of Governance - Hochschule für Politik

Umut Aydin

Instituto de Ciencia Política, Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile

A.E. Rodriguez

Monterey Institute of International Studies

Ashok Menon

Uppsala University - Department of Chemistry

Eleanor M. Fox

New York University School of Law

Francisco Agüero

Facultad de Derecho - Universidad de Chile

Marianela López-Galdos

George Washington University - Competition Law Center

William E. Kovacic

George Washington University - Law School; King's College London - The Dickson Poon School of Law

Yane Svetiev

European University Institute - Department of Law (LAW); Bocconi University - Department of Law

Lei Wang

University of Lucerne

Ralf Michaels

Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law

Date Written: 2016

Abstract

This symposium issue, guest edited by Tim Büthe and Umut Aydin, brings together eight papers exploring, from multiple different disciplinary perspectives, “success and limits” of competition law and policy under conditions where they might be considered "most unlikely to succeed" (as the original subtitle of the symposium put it - with a question mark). The articles in this symposium – by Francisco Agüero, Umut Aydin, Tim Büthe, Eleanor Fox, William Kovacic, Marianela Lopez-Galdos, Ashok Menon, Ralf Michaels, A. E. Rodriguez, Yane Svetiev, and Lei Wang seek to explain the variation in trajectories after the initial adoption of a competition law, focusing on two questions: (1) Why has the adoption of a competition law and the establishment of a competition agency succeeded in bringing into existence a regulatory agency with substantial analytical capacity and considerable capability to dismantle private and public barriers to competition in some countries, while in others it has largely failed to do so? (2) What are the conditions under which competition law and policy are effective in contributing to broader goals, such as development, equality, or economic and political liberalization?

Keywords: antitrust, competition law, competition policy, developing countries

JEL Classification: K21, L40, O53, O54, O55

Suggested Citation

Buthe, Tim and Aydin, Umut and Rodriguez, Armando E. and Menon, Ashok and Fox, Eleanor M. and Agüero, Francisco and López-Galdos, Marianela and Kovacic, William E. and Svetiev, Yane and Svetiev, Yane and Wang, Lei and Michaels, Ralf, Symposium: Success and Limits of Competition Law and Policy in Developing Countries (2016). Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 79, No. 4, 2016, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3098512

Tim Buthe (Contact Author)

Technische Universität München (TUM) - School of Governance - Hochschule für Politik ( email )

Richard-Wagner-Str.1
Munich, 80333
Germany

Umut Aydin

Instituto de Ciencia Política, Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile ( email )

Santiago
Chile

HOME PAGE: http://www.cienciapolitica.uc.cl/profesores/planta-academica/umut-aydin

Armando E. Rodriguez

Monterey Institute of International Studies ( email )

460 Pierce Street
Monterey, CA 93940
408-647-6424 (Phone)
408-647-6435 (Fax)

Ashok Menon

Uppsala University - Department of Chemistry ( email )

Eleanor M. Fox

New York University School of Law ( email )

40 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012-1099
United States
212-998-6171 (Phone)

Francisco Agüero

Facultad de Derecho - Universidad de Chile ( email )

Pío Nono Nº1, Providencia
Santiago, R. Metropolitana 7520421
Chile

HOME PAGE: http://regulacionycompetencia.blogspot.com

Marianela López-Galdos

George Washington University - Competition Law Center ( email )

2121 I Street NW
Washington, DC 20052
United States

William E. Kovacic

George Washington University - Law School ( email )

2000 H Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20052
United States
202.994.8123 (Phone)

HOME PAGE: http://www.law.gwu.edu/faculty/profile.aspx?id=1731

King's College London - The Dickson Poon School of Law

Somerset House East Wing
Strand
London, WC2R 2LS
United Kingdom

Yane Svetiev

European University Institute - Department of Law (LAW) ( email )

Via Bolognese 156 (Villa Salviati)
50-139 Firenze
ITALY

Bocconi University - Department of Law ( email )

Via Roentgen, 1
Milan, Milan 20136
Italy

Lei Wang

University of Lucerne ( email )

Hofstrasse 9
P.O. Box 7464
Luzern 7, CH - 6000
Switzerland

Ralf Michaels

Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law ( email )

Mittelweg 187
Hamburg, D-20148
Germany

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