Competition policy trends and economic growth: Cross-national empirical evidence

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Motivated by the general lack of empirical scholarship concerning the crossnational environment for competition policy, I present measures here of the overall resources dedicated to competition policy and the merger policy workload for thirty-two antitrust jurisdictions over the 1992-2007 period. The data allow analysing a number of perceived trends in competition policy over the last two decades, and allow the generation of some factual insights concerning these trends: e.g., the budgetary commitment to competition policy in the crossnational environment for antitrust has substantially increased over this period; budgetary increases appear to be commensurate with increased antitrust workloads; yet, the role of economics does not appear to have substantially increased relative to the role of law. Moreover, I am also able to provide some evidence that budgetary commitments to antitrust institutions yield economic benefits in terms of improved economic growth: i.e., higher budgetary commitments to competition policy are associated with higher levels per-capita GDP growth.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: WZB Discussion Paper ; No. SP II 2009-16

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Antitrust Issues and Policies: General ; Antitrust Law ; Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
• Subject: Competition Policy ; Trends ; Growth

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Clougherty, Joseph A.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)
• (where): Berlin
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/51215
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