Concurrances Editorial by Averitt, Lande, and Nihoul titled “Consumer choice is where we are all going - so let’s go together"

Neil Averitt, Robert Lande and Paul Nihoul published an editorial in Concurrances titled “Consumer choice is where we are all going - so let’s go together"

ABSTRACT: Globalisation of business makes it important for firms to predict how their behaviour is likely to be treated in the roughly 200 nations that have competition laws. In that context, a crucial question is: are we in a position to develop a common intellectual framework that would give coherence to policy statements made on specific competition related issues and, at the same time, be acceptable, broadly, in a variety of legal systems, not necessarily based on identical assumptions? We believe that the answer is “yes”. A concept is emerging as a possible source of unification for competition policies around the globe: the concept of “consumer choice”.

Reprinted with permission from Concurrences Review No. 2-2011, www.concurrences.com