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12-Mar-2009
These guidelines provide the most comprehensive strategy available today for designing tenders to hinder bid rigging conspiracies and for uncovering existing conspiracies. They can be applied in a decentralised manner across government at both national and local levels and are simple enough for use by officials with no specialised economics or competition policy training.
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OECD’s Gurría calls for strong competition policy to speed recovery
19-Feb-2009
Governments must resist protectionism and keep markets open to competition as they seek ways to get their economies going again, according to OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría.
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06-Nov-2008
Many delegates to the Competition Committee have expressed a wish to see increased coordination of capacity building activities worldwide. Sharing basic information is a good starting point. To this end, a "Calendar of Global Capacity Building Events in 2008/2009" has been compiled in close cooperation with OECD members and observers at the Competition Committee as well as international organisations. The Calendar is regularly updated on the basis of the information provided to the OECD.
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30-Oct-2008
El Salvador’s first competition law took effect on 1 January 2006. Jointly published by OECD and the IDB, this report reviews competition laws and policies in El Salvador since that date and provides recommendations for further reforms. This report is also available in Spanish.
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30-Jun-2008
The OECD Competition Committee debated Guidance to Business on Monopolisation and Abuse of Dominance in June 2007. This document includes an executive summary and the documents from the meeting: written submissions from the Czech Republic, the European Commission, Finland, Ireland, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, South Africa, Chinese Taipei, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States as well as an aide-memoire of the discussion.
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23-Jun-2008
This roundtable focused on how competition authorities can provide businesses with effective guidance on monopolization and abuse of dominance. While some uncertainty over the reach of rules prohibiting anticompetitive unilateral conduct is inevitable, authorities responsible for the enforcement of antitrust laws must strive to provide as much transparency as possible as to their enforcement policies so that businesses can plan and invest with some predictability.
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16-May-2008
This roundtable addressed the recurring synergies that mergers sometimes create. These synergies, or “efficiencies,” can have very potent beneficial effects but are devilishly difficult to identify and measure. The Committee focused on dynamic efficiencies that facilitate or encourage innovation.
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21-Feb-2008
Opening the 100th meeting of the competition committee, Mr. Gurría reminded that competition is vital for economic growth. It stimulates efficiency and higher productivity, it disciplines managers, it reinforces incentives for innovation, and it speeds up the adjustment to change. He also mentioned OECD countries that have implemented pro-competition reforms have seen higher growth rates and lower unemployment than those who failed to reform. They have also proved to be more flexible and resilient to economic shocks.
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22-Jun-2007
In presenting the Competition Assessment Toolkit, Angel Gurría noted Mexico's substantial progress in developing competition in its economy over the past 15 years, and that there are strategic sectors still insulated from a competitive environment and in which undue restrictions prevail.
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13-Jun-2007
Competition authorities become interested in auctions by a number of routes. In competition advocacy, they may advise other parts of government on how to design auctions in order to improve their efficiency—the degree of competition. They may evaluate mergers and agreements between firms that operate in auction markets. And they may be concerned with collusion and abuse of a dominant position in auctions.
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