This background note reviews the relationship between competition and innovation in both directions. This is, how competition can help boosting innovation and how innovation can shape competition. It focuses on the theoretical perspective to try to understand whether competition is indeed a...

This paper focuses on how competition, economic growth, and the shift to a circular economy interact. It was prepared as a background note for discussions on “Competition in the Circular Economy” taking place at the June 2023 session of the OECD Competition Committee.

This paper was prepared as a background note for discussions on “Competition and Professional Sports” taking place at the December 2023 session of the OECD Competition Committee’s Working Party No. 2 on Competition and Regulation.

This paper was prepared as a background note for discussions on “The Optimal Design, Organisation and Powers of Competition Authorities” taking place at the December 2023 session of the OECD Competition Committee’s Working Party No. 3 on Co-operation and Enforcement.

Fighting poverty remains a top priority and a key challenge to many countries including in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Although LAC countries have strengthened their competition policy in the past decade, poverty has increased in the region, mostly as effect of the recession which...

Leniency programmes are a powerful detection tool for competition authorities. Over the period 2015-2021, the number of leniency applications in OECD jurisdictions dropped by 58% and the same trend can be observed across most regions. This Note explores whether and to what extent the drop in...

Standards in competition policy, such as the consumer welfare standard or the protecting competition standard, are the subject of considerable debate. This paper considers the relative advantages and disadvantages of alternative standards by first identifying their desirable attributes and then...