OECD Journal: Competition Law and Policy
- Frequency :
- 3 times a year
- ISSN :
- 1609-7521 (online)
- ISSN :
- 1560-7771 (print)
- DOI :
- 10.1787/16097521
This journal draws on the best of the recent work done for and by the OECD Committee on Competition Law and Policy. Its articles provide insight into the thinking a competition law enforcers, and focus on the practical application of competition law and policy. Here’s what Robert Pitofsky, Chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission said about this new journal when it was launched: "Global competition is the wave of the future, and comparative analysis of the laws and practices of various members of the worldwide community of nations is a necessary corollary. This new OECD Journal of Competition Law and Policy, compiled from OECD Round Table discussions, summaries of recent developments, and articles on topics of special interest, will introduce regulators, practitioners, and scholars to different regulatory approaches around the world and will allow us to consider in a more informed way the strengths and weaknesses of our own systems."
Now published as part of the OECD Journal package.
Media Mergers
Synthesis by the Secretariat
- Publication Date
- 16 June 2004
- Pages
- 15
- Bibliographic information
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- No.:
- 15,
- Volume:
- 5,
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages
- 73–78
- DOI
- 10.1787/clp-v5-art15-en
Reviewing media mergers may be more complicated than reviewing other mergers because of the huge variety of possible media content and the two-sided market aspect of many media, i.e. those earning advertising revenue. A wide variety of content means that market definition is rendered more complex. The twosided market characteristic has important and sometimes far from obvious impacts on how mergers affect economic efficiency, media plurality and content diversity...
