Competition Principles And Policy In The Apec

This book provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive account of the APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) organisation and examines the challenges APEC now faces in the new century. Subjects covered include: * the history of APEC * APEC and the latest WTO round * case-studies of countries in the region including China, Japan, Malaysia, Korea and Taiwan * APECs approach to competition and deregulation policy * assessment of APECs standing as an international institution Featuring contributions from distinguished groups of international academic experts, this book is essential reading for all those interested in political and economic developments in the Asia-Pacific.

Lloyd (economics, U. of Melbourne) and Australian research economist Vautier advocate goads to keep the global markets in a frenzy of competition. They discuss multi-national approaches in the World Trade Organization, the European Union, the Americas, and other multinational bodies. Investigating the policy responses to anti- competitive, cross-border business transactions, they argue that a growing reliance on competition law is not sufficient, and call for a more comprehensive and coherent policy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This paper contributes to the broader examination of liberalization within APEC. It complements the review paper on competition policy prepared by New Zealand last year and the subsequent discussions that took place at the Competition Policy Seminar held in Auckland in July 1995. It is relevant to a number of issues in the work plan of the Economic Committee of APEC, in particular he proposed research on the links between technology and foreign investment. The intent of this paper is to inform the dialogue among APEC members by providing a conceptual approach that directs attention to some important issues with respect to framework policies in general, and to competition and intellectual policies in particular. As such, it does not contain specific recommendations.