Erosion or innovation?: The institutional design of competition agencies--A Dutch case study

Looking at competition agencies world wide, we can see the emergence of a new trend, with more and more agencies merging with others and creating new combinations. Competition agencies are consequently moving away from being single-function bodies and instead becoming multifunctional authorities housing antitrust and regulatory functions under one roof. Competition literature has so far devoted little attention to the institutional design of such organizations and the implementation of their policy goals. The focus has been on substantive matters of competition law, rather than on governance a... Mehr ...