Canada’s International Cartel Enforcement: Keeping Score

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Canada’s International Cartel Enforcement: Keeping Score

John M. Connor (Purdue University)

Abstract:      Canada’s Competition Bureau has been a highly rated competition-law enforcer. Previously published assessments of its anti-cartel efforts tend to heap praise on the authority. Yet its antitrust performance in the past decade or so has flagged. A quantitative assessment of several dimensions of outcomes made of the Bureau’s anti-cartel enforcement activities shows an agency unable to live up to its earlier promise.

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