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Assessing Exclusionary Conduct in Abuse of Dominance: the relevance of the Extraterritoriality Rule and Public Interest for Developing Countries

Competition Law is governed by empowering legislation. Legislation in most developing and third world economies are mostly fashioned after the existing framework of legislation originating from the European Union (EU) or the United States of America (USA). While a lot of these pieces of legislation...

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Main Author: Adeleke, Olufolahan
Other Authors: Davis, Dennis
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Department of Commercial Law 2014
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description Competition Law is governed by empowering legislation. Legislation in most developing and third world economies are mostly fashioned after the existing framework of legislation originating from the European Union (EU) or the United States of America (USA). While a lot of these pieces of legislation are often modified to suit the needs of these developing countries, it is usually not the case that a cautious approach is taken to ensure that imported legislation is designed to meet the specific national challenges of such a country. The Courts in most jurisdictions especially in the USA and the EU have attempted to deal with the lapse in competition legislations by giving landmark decisions on significant issues like dominant firms and their unilateral exclusionary behaviors. The big question to consider in this dissertation is how competition laws should apply to dominant firms. This question has raised much interest in recent years. Aside from establishing which firms have substantial market power that can harm competition, there have been difficulties in distinguishing competition on the merits from mere anticompetitive conduct. This is more obvious in the case of unilateral exclusionary behaviors and will be the central focus in this dissertation.
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spelling oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/4637 Assessing Exclusionary Conduct in Abuse of Dominance: the relevance of the Extraterritoriality Rule and Public Interest for Developing Countries Adeleke, Olufolahan Davis, Dennis Competition Law is governed by empowering legislation. Legislation in most developing and third world economies are mostly fashioned after the existing framework of legislation originating from the European Union (EU) or the United States of America (USA). While a lot of these pieces of legislation are often modified to suit the needs of these developing countries, it is usually not the case that a cautious approach is taken to ensure that imported legislation is designed to meet the specific national challenges of such a country. The Courts in most jurisdictions especially in the USA and the EU have attempted to deal with the lapse in competition legislations by giving landmark decisions on significant issues like dominant firms and their unilateral exclusionary behaviors. The big question to consider in this dissertation is how competition laws should apply to dominant firms. This question has raised much interest in recent years. Aside from establishing which firms have substantial market power that can harm competition, there have been difficulties in distinguishing competition on the merits from mere anticompetitive conduct. This is more obvious in the case of unilateral exclusionary behaviors and will be the central focus in this dissertation. 2014-07-30T18:14:42Z 2014-07-30T18:14:42Z 2009 Master Thesis Masters LLM http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4637 eng application/pdf Department of Commercial Law Faculty of Law University of Cape Town
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title_fullStr Assessing Exclusionary Conduct in Abuse of Dominance: the relevance of the Extraterritoriality Rule and Public Interest for Developing Countries
title_full_unstemmed Assessing Exclusionary Conduct in Abuse of Dominance: the relevance of the Extraterritoriality Rule and Public Interest for Developing Countries
title_short Assessing Exclusionary Conduct in Abuse of Dominance: the relevance of the Extraterritoriality Rule and Public Interest for Developing Countries
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