Methodological approaches to economic analysis in assessing the competitive situation at the market, applied by the competition authorities implementing state competition policy

About the author:

Irina V. Gagarina, Head of the Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service in the Kurgan Region; eLibrary AuthorID, gagarina.dgrcitko@mail.ru

Abstract:

Competitive situation assessment is typically the first essential stage of making regulatory act by competition authorities. Consequently, efficiency and effectiveness of competition authorities’ activity hinges on quality of carrying out analytical research. <br>
Analysis of competition situation as a stage of antimonopoly regulation is different from marketing research, as its aim is to answer the questions which must be solved on the level of enabling legislation. The procedure of research and methodological approaches to economic analysis are regulated and defined by the aims of law enforcement, and by specific character of sectoral market functioning. However, antimonopoly authority does not have a right to deviate from imposed requirements, otherwise regulatory act based on the results of competitive situation assessment can be invalidated. Nowadays, issues of applying methodological approaches to competitive situation assessment at the market as well as quality improvement of economy analysis and transparency of such work for society are on the front burner. <br>
The current article follows the paper “Means of competitive situation at the market assessment, applied by antimonopoly authority in the course of state competition policy” and it includes the characteristics of the stages of research, general and specific requirements of their applying, generalization of views concerning methodological approaches to economic analysis under every stage. Means of competitive situation at the market assessment has been represented in such arrangement for the first time. Provided research results can be used for scientific, practical, and educational purpose under such disciplines as “Competition Law” and “Competition Policy”.

References:

1. Aleshin D. A., Knyazeva I. V., Sushkevich A. G. 2016. Economic Analysis as a Matter of Actual Practice of the Foreign Antimonopoly Regulation. Novosibirsk: NGTU. [In Russian]

2. Aitzhanov A. T., Knyazeva I. V. 2016. The Analysis of Competitive Condition and Defining Borders of the Goods Market. Astana: Tsentr razvitiya i zashchity konkurentnoy politiki. [In Russian]

3. Carikovsky A. Yu., Galihmanova N. F., Tenishev A. P. 2018. Antimonopoly Regulation in the Digital Era. Moscow: Higher School of Economics. [In Russian]

4. Karaganchu A., Knyazeva I. V., 2017. Competition Policy in Preventing of Restrictive Business Practice and of Anticompetitive National Assistance: Best Practices of the European Union. Novosibirsk: NGTU. [In Russian]

5. Knyazeva I. V. 2017. “Methodological aspects of relevant service market definition, rendered by bus stations for the purposes of antimonopoly regulation”. Konkurentnoe pravo, no 4, pp. 16-20 [In Russian]

6. Aleshin D. A., Artemev I. Yu., Borzilo E. Yu. 2012. Competition Law in Russia. Edited by I. Yu. Artemev and A. G. Sushkevich. Moscow: Higher School of Economics. [In Russian]

7. Karaganchu A., Kerare V. 2012. Theory and Practice of Competition Law Establishing (The Case Study of Republic of Moldova). Moscow: Yusticinform [In Russian]

8. Shastitko A. E., Kurdin A. A., Pavlova 2014. Economic Analysis in Applying of the Norms of the Antimonopoly Law. Moscow: Maxpress. [In Russian]

9. US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission. 1992. Horizontal Merger Guidelines. Reprinted in 4 Trade. Reg. Rep. 13,104, § 1.11.

10. Fingleton J., Ruane F., Ryan V. 1999. “Market definition and State aid control. Chapter 4”. In: Meiklejohn R (ed.). “State Aid and the Single Market”. European Economy. Reports and Studies no 3. Brussels: European Commission.