As a compact, liberal, industrialized democracy, 1980s New Zealand proved a useful place to try out the latest fads in market deregulation. This title presents a comprehensive chronicle and critical analysis of how well New Zealand's competition law fared in combatting mergers, monopolies, and cartels.

Rex Ahdar is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Otago, New Zealand, and an Adjunct Professor at the School of Law, University of Notre Dame Australia, at Sydney. He is a former Fulbright Senior Research Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley (1991). He has taught Competition Law at Otago University since 1986. He is the editor of Competition Law and Policy in New Zealand (1991) and has published numerous articles on competition law and policy in journals, such as The Antitrust Bulletin, European Competition Law Review, Utilities Law Review, Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business, Australian Business Review, Competition & Consumer Law Journal and New Zealand Universities Law Review. He is on the Editorial Board of the Australian Business Law Review and the New Zealand Business Law Quarterly.

• 1: Introduction


• 2: The Pre-Modern Period of Competition Law


• 3: The Goals of Competition Law


• 4: Horizontal Arrangements: From Price Fixing and Boycotts to Cartel Conduct


• 5: Vertical Arrangements


• 6: Powerful Firms and Monopolizing Conduct


• 7: The Undulating Path of Merger Policy


• 8: Granting Immunity: Authorization and 'Public Benefit'


• 9: Enforcement and Remedies


• 10: Retrospect and Prospect