Abstract
China has become the third-largest antitrust jurisdiction after the United States and the European Union since it passed its Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) 2007. The enforcement of the AML has attracted worldwide attention. Hong Kong, on the other hand, as a small economy and having started enforcing its general competition law only two years ago, is a very new member of the international antitrust community. A special administrative region of China, Hong Kong established its Competition Ordinance (CO) independently. Hong Kong’s CO is set up and enforced under its common law system, whereas the AML of China is a part of China’s continental legal system. Despite these distinctions, some interesting comparisons can be made between the two competition law systems and the roles of economics in their enforcement. This chapter reviews the competition law regimes of China and Hong Kong and analyses the use of economic analysis in implementing their respective laws.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Research Handbook on Methods and Models of Competition Law |
| Editors | Deborah HEALEY, Michael JACOBS, Rhonda L. SMITH |
| Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. |
| Pages | 89-114 |
| Number of pages | 26 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781785368653 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781785368646 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2020 |
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