Competition Policy: A Driver for Economic Recovery in the APEC Region
| Published Date | January 2023 |
|---|---|
| Type of Publication | Proceedings |
| Publication Under | Economic Committee (EC), Competition Policy and Law Group (CPLG) |
| Accessed | 706 |
| Pages | 62 |
| Download publication | Download |
Description
This report summarizes the main ideas, findings and proposals derived from the workshop, Competition Policy: A Driver for Economic Recovery in the APEC Region, held virtually on 12-13 October 2022.
During this event, officials from competition agencies of Asia-Pacific shared their experiences on the following areas: (1) advocacy efforts to support governments in the design, implementation and withdrawal of government support strategies required in the short-run; (2) the use of enforcement powers to address anticompetitive agreements, exclusionary abuses, and excessive pricing in strategic sectors affected by the pandemic; (3) how competition authorities have addressed the challenges posed by economic uncertainty in enforcing their merger control powers; and (4) investments they have made to increase their expertise and data collection capabilities on crisis-affected sectors.
Additionally, this report presents policy and best practice recommendations that could be implemented by APEC economies as a benchmark to address economic recovery from a competition perspective.