Competition Law and Policy in El Salvador: A Peer Review

Jointly published by OECD and the IDB, this report reviews competition laws and policies in El Salvador and concludes with recommendations for changes in government policy. “Peer review” is a core element of OECD work. The mechanisms of peer review vary, but it is founded upon the willingness of all OECD countries and their partners to submit their laws and policies to substantive questioning by other members.

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• Launch of the Peer Review of Competition Law and Policy in El Salvador

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Efectos distributivos y espaciales de las empresas, by Carlos Urzua

Haciendo uso de la Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares, estetrabajo presenta evidencia empírica de que las pérdidas sociales debido al ejercicio de poderes de mercado en México no solamente son significativas, sino que también son regresivas. Más aún, la pérdida en el bienestar social es también diferente para cada entidad federativa, siendo los habitantes de los estados del sur los más afectados.

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Private Remedies

Between 2004 and 2006, the Competition Committee held a series of four roundtables on private enforcement in competition cases. This document summarises those discussions and focuses on general principles and policies as well as a number of specific issues related to private actions for damages.

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• Prosecuting Cartels Without Direct Evidence of Agreement
• Best Practices for the Formal Exchange of Information Between Competition Authorities in Hard Core Investigations
• Hard Core Cartels: Third Report on the Implementation of the 1998 Recommendation
• Fighting Hard-core Cartels: Harm, Effective Sanctions and Leniency Programmes
• 1998 - Recommendation on Effective Action against Hard Core Cartels

Energy Security and Competition Policy

This roundtable examined the links between competition policy and energy security, with a focus on natural gas. The discussion began by addressing the questions of the meaning and importance of energy security; and the determinants of energy security, particularly as they relate to competition policy. It continued in dealing with gas supply, transportation, and distribution, addressing five aspects that relate to different aspects

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• Competition Issues in the Electricity Sector
• Restructuring Public Utilities for Competition
• Application of Competition Policy to the Electricity Sector

Vertical Mergers

This roundtable addressed the economics, practice, and policy of vertical merger enforcement. It explored the state of research on vertical mergers and the practical strategies, difficulties, and successes of vertical merger enforcement by competition agencies.

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• 2005 Council Recommendation on Merger Review
• Merger Remedies
• Media Mergers
• Mergers in Financial Services
• Report on Notification of Transnational Mergers
• Merger Cases in the Real World - A Study of Merger Control Procedures

Competition assessment documents and links - Competition Assessment Framework (DFID)

UK DFID Competition Assessment Framework

Competition and Regulation in Retail Banking

Competition can improve the functioning of the retail banking sector without harming prudential regulation. Customer mobility and choice are essential to stimulate banking competition; credit ratings and easy, low-cost transaction costs for switching are crucial for promoting customer mobility.

Competitive Restrictions in Legal Professions

Regulation of the legal professions, including self-regulation, typically involves many restrictions on entry and professional conduct. Certain restrictions may be a remedy to market failures and may also be based on distributional or paternalistic motives. But other restrictions can be based on rent-seeking and achieve cartel-like effects. The major policy challenge is to identify and remove the restrictions which are unnecessary or

Policy Brief: Competition Policy and Concessions

Governments have long been engaged in providing goods or services to their citizens that could, in some form, be provided by the private sector. The trend over the past few decades, however, has been to transfer these functions, and the state-owned assets used to provide them, to private hands. The most common method, and the one usually preferred, is privatisation, or outright sale or transfer of ownership of the relevant assets to