"Consumer Choice" Is Where We Are All Going - so Let's Go Together

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Neil W. Averitt, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission
Robert H. Lande, University of Baltimore School of LawFollow
Paul Nihoul, Université catholique de LouvainFollow

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Article

Publication Date

2011

Abstract

Globalisation of business makes it important for firms to predict how their behaviour is likely to be treated in the roughly 200 nations that have competition laws. In that context, a crucial question is: are we in a position to develop a common intellectual framework that would give coherence to policy statements made on specific competition related issues and, at the same time, be acceptable, broadly, in a variety of legal systems, not necessarily based on identical assumptions? We believe that the answer is “yes.” A concept is emerging as a possible source of unification for competition policies around the globe: the concept of “consumer choice.”

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"Consumer Choice" Is Where We Are All Going - so Let's Go Together, 2 Concurrences: Revue des Droits de la Concurrence 1 (2011)