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ICASA: A Guideline for Conducting Market Reviews (in terms of section 67 of the ECA), 8 March 2010. 

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An economist’s perspective: Abuse of dominance in online markets. Competition Law Insights (2019). 

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The new age of corporate monopolies (2018).  See https://www.ted.com/talks/margrethe_vestager_the_new_age_of_corporate_monopolies

 

This COVID-19 related article considers the impact of the virus on competition. In this essay Professor Fox reflects on the sometimes delicate balance between private power and state power. She posits a triangle of tensions among: 1) relying on the market with aggressive antitrust to tame and cabin business power, 2) relying on the market and opposing aggressive antitrust on the theory that business power is fanciful or fleeting and antitrust tends to protect inefficient market players, and 3) relying on the ship of state to guide or commandeer the market, which seems especially attractive in times of crisis (2020). See: https://www-competitionpolicyinternational-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.competitionpolicyinternational.com/antitrust-and-power-the-state-the-market-and-the-virus/amp/