By Dr. Aston Zhong1   From November 16 to 17, 2021, the 7th BRICS International Competition Conference (“ICC”) was successfully held in China. The year 2021 is the 15th anniversary…

March 2019 CPI Europe Column edited by Anna Tzanaki (Competition Policy International) & Juan Delgado (Global Economics Group) presents: Coercive mediation – why it is a way of life for bilateral monopolies in Russia?…

Kiev Economic court of appeal has dismissed the complaint of Russian gas holding against the decision of the Kiev Economic Court dated December 5, 2016, which upheld the lawsuit of…

By Benjamin Edelman – Google’s widely-used Android operating system is open source software. Any developer who wishes to examine the source code can download it in full. Any device manufacturer that…

Svetlana Golovanova, Andrey Shastitko, Nov 27, 2013 This article demonstrates that even established and verified facts of agreements among producers are not sufficient conditions for either cartel identification and, as…

Alexander Egorushkin, Mar 28, 2013 Over the last 10-20 years, the regulation of fines for antitrust violations has been amended several times in the United States and the European Union,…

Svetlana Avdasheva, Andrey Shastitko, Jul 27, 2012 The Law ‘On Trade,’ adopted in the Russian Federation at the end of 2009, introduced a set of rules that regulate the terms…

Aldash Aitzhanov, May 29, 2012 There is some empirical evidence that the effectiveness of antimonopoly policy (hereinafter referred to as the “EAP”) depends on different aspects of policy design, like…

Svetlana Avdasheva, Andrey Shastitko, Aug 30, 2011 Collusion of market participants is one of the most dangerous forms of restriction of competition, adversely affecting incentives and, as a consequence, allocation…

MAndrey Shastitko, Aug 30, 2011 A new stage in the development of the Russian antitrust policy began in 2006, due to the development and adoption of the package of laws…

Denis Matvienko, Yuri Rubin, Jan 27, 2011 In structured market systems, state competition policy is an inherent part of the government’s activity in the context of competition protection and development…