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Book SynopsisThe modern era of competition law in New Zealand began with the Commerce Act 1986. Since then, a steady and impressive corpus of case law had traversed all the usual major areas of antitrust law: cartels, resale price maintenance, exclusive dealing, tying, group boycotts, monopolization, mergers and acquisitions, exempted sectors, and the role of economic evidence. This volume explains the rationale for the various major reforms, the ongoing contestation between the Harvard and Chicago Schools of antitrust, and traces the developments of key concepts over the last 34 years.This title also explores systemic issues such as how well has New Zealand moulded its own competition law whilst nonetheless selectively drawing upon the policies, case law, and wisdom of foreign jurisdictions; how effectively has it faced the challenge of adapting its fledgling competition law to the reality of being a small, deregulated, open, and distant economy; and how successful was the application of competiti
Trade ReviewAny person, whether judge, academic, practitioner or post-graduate student, with an interest in understanding competition law, will benefit greatly from reading this book ... Professor Ahdar has made a valuable addition to the jurisprudence on competition law. * Dr. RJ Desiatnik, Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law *
Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: The Pre-Modern Period of Competition Law 3: The Goals of Competition Law 4: Horizontal Arrangements: From Price Fixing and Boycotts to Cartel Conduct 5: Vertical Arrangements 6: Powerful Firms and Monopolizing Conduct 7: The Undulating Path of Merger Policy 8: Granting Immunity: Authorization and 'Public Benefit' 9: Enforcement and Remedies 10: Retrospect and Prospect
