Monopoly Competition Law

Part 1 Introduction: The objectives of antitrust policy; competition and regulation; the meaning of "competition" in legal policy; antitrust policy and legal technique; the history and development of antitrust policy; firms and markets. Part 2 Restrictive trade practices: the nature of collusion; regulated practices; legal control and the public interest; horizontal collusion; vertical arrangements. Part 3 Monopoly: the monopoly problem; the objectives of monopoly policy; the definitions of monopoly; the process of assessment; monopoly practices and the public interest. Part 4 Mergers: varieties of merger transaction; the process of assessment; mergers and the public interest; the commercial and financial context. Part 4 Anti-competitive pracatices; anti-competitive practices and monopoly control; legal control; the problem of intellectual property rights. Part 6 Remedies. Part 7 Extra-territoriality.