Global Transactions: Special Aspects of Antitrust Control in the Era of Economic Transformation

Controlling economic concentration is becoming an increasingly important issue on the current and future agenda of competition authorities around the world. Antimonopoly authorities are intensifying their activities to improve legal regulation and practical enforcement in the control of economic concentration due to the real processes of economic and organizational transformation in global markets. First, numerous transactions represent cooperation between digital companies in fundamentally new markets that require adapted approaches to an economic analysis of the extent of their impact on competition. Second, people continue to engage in cross-border transactions that involve multiple jurisdictions and require cooperation among the antimonopoly authorities and the harmonization of common approaches. What challenges do antimonopoly regulators face when assessing economic concentration transactions in a rapidly changing economic situation? What role does cooperation between competition authorities from different jurisdictions play in developing common approaches to the assessment of cross-border mergers?