Oecd Competition Trends 2023

This report highlights worldwide competition enforcement trends using the unique OECD CompStats database that includes 34 variables covering competition authority resources, cartels, abuse of dominance, mergers, and advocacy.

The 2024 edition of the OECD Competition Trends report highlights worldwide competition enforcement trends during the calendar year 2022 based on 77 jurisdictions.

The third edition of OECD Competition Trends covers key trends in competition authority resources, cartel enforcement, abuse of dominance cases, merger review and advocacy. The analysis is based on six years of data between 2015-20 for 73 OECD and non-OECD jurisdictions. The report also considers the potential impact of COVID-19 on competition enforcement trends, and includes a spotlight chapter on leniency.

The second edition of OECD Competition Trends is presented in two volumes. Volume I. Global Competition Enforcement Update 2015-19 provides an update on the competition enforcement trends between 2015-19 for the competition authorities of the 56 jurisdictions in the OECD CompStats database. Volume II. Global Merger Control provides an “in-focus” view on merger control by providing an overview of trends in global merger control, describing a selection of the different choices made by jurisdictions when designing legal regimes, global merger control activity, and trends in merger control enforcement.

The OECD Regional Outlook 2016 examines the widening productivity gap across regions within countries, and the implications of these trends for the well-being of people living in different places.

The OECD Business and Finance Outlook is an annual publication that presents unique data and analysis on the trends, both positive and negative, that are shaping tomorrow’s world of business, finance and investment.

The first edition of OECD Competition Trends describes enforcement trends relating to cartels, abuse of dominance cases and merger reviews. A special section is dedicated to cartel sanctions. This report presents comparisons between geographic regions and trends over time, allowing jurisdictions to understand how their data compares to peers and the broader competition community.

This report presents a comprehensive overview of recent and longer-term trends in productivity levels and growth in OECD countries, accession countries, key partners and some G20 countries.