A Commissioner’s Primer to Economics of Competition Law in India

Dr Geeta  Gouri has served as a Commissioner (Member), Competition Commission of India (2009-2014) and earlier as Director (Tariffs), Andhra Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (1999-2009), India. She has also taught at institutions which included Jawaharlal Nehru Institute for Development Banking, Hyderabad; Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad, and Lady Shri Ram College for Women (Delhi University), New Delhi. She has authored Pricing for Welfare: Petroleum Products in India (1988), Privatisation and Public Enterprises: The Asia-Pacific Experience (1991), Efficiency through Competition in Public Utilities - Policies for Restructuring (1993), Towards Equity: New Economic Policy and Equity (1995).

Chapter 1: Regulation and Competition.- Chapter 2: Economics of Competition and Markets.- Chapter 3: Emergent Markets.- Chapter4: Economics of Horizontal Agreements and Vertical  Agreements.- Chapter 5: Dynamics of Competition and Antitrust.- Chapter 6: Economic Analysis of Combinations: Mergers, Amalgamations and Acquisitions.- Chapter 7: Interface between Competition Commission of India and Sectoral Regulators.- Chapter 8: Conclusions: Challenges for Competition Policy and Law.