Table of Contents
SUPERVISOR'S CERTIFICATE ;
DECLARATION ;
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ;
List of Cases ;
EU ;
UK ;
USA ;
India ;
Chapter 1 - Introduction ;
Thesis statement ;
Chapter 2 - The Definition of Agreement ;
Agreements under EU Law ;
Agreements under UK law ;
Agreements under US law ;
Agreements under Indian law ;
Chapter 3 - Substance over Form ;
Chapter 4 - Cognitive Limitations and Judicial Decision Making On Behavioural Economics ;
Heuristics and Bias ;
Judicial Decision Making and Cognitive Bias ;
Two Conceptions of Rationality ;
Cognitive Limitations and Biases in Competition Law Decision Making;
Linguistic Indeterminacy and the Open Texture of Rules ;
The Broad Definition of Agreement ;
Procedural Rationality and a Broad Definition ;
Chapter V - Conclusion ;
Bibliography ;
Books ;
Articles ;
Annexure I - Market Power ;
The Core Concern In Competition Law ;
It's A Matter Of Degree ;
Differentiated Product Market Power . ;
Appreciable Effect ;
Dominance ;
Super-Dominance And Monopoly ;
Assessing Market Power: Market Shares and Concentration ;
Market Shares and Market Power ;
Measuring Market Shares: Not As Easy As It Might Seem ;
Measuring Concentration ;
When Is A Market Too Concentrated? ;
The Lerner Index ;
Entry And Exit Barriers ;
Potential Competition ;
Absolute, Strategic, And Exclusionary Barriers To Entry ;
Informational Entry Barriers ;
Economies Of Scale And Scope ;
Sunk Costs ;
Contestable Markets ;
Network Effects ;
Collective Dominance, Tacit Collusion, And Effective Competition ;
Oligopolistic Markets ;
Tacit Collusion: the Prisoner's Dilemma and How Oligopolists Can Overcome Market Power, Investment, And Innovation ;
A Difficult Trade-Off ;