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Anti‐competitive Practices and Liberalising Markets in Latin America and the Caribbean
Author(s) -
Clarke Julian L.,
Evenett Simon J.,
Lucenti Krista
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
world economy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.594
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1467-9701
pISSN - 0378-5920
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9701.2005.00719.x
Subject(s) - latin americans , competition (biology) , newspaper , economics , caribbean region , development economics , law , political science , biology , ecology
The last ten years have seen many Latin American and Caribbean nations enact or reform competition laws, and numerous other jurisdictions are considering following suit. The evidential base to guide such policymaking is, however, limited. In this paper we have assembled two databases, one concerning allegations of anti‐competitive acts in newspaper articles and another concerning the relationship between competition‐related factors and the effects of reforms to liberalise markets, that may go some way to remedying this deficiency. In so doing, we have noticed a number of matters that producers and consumers of research in this area should probably bear in mind.