Emerging trend in competition law in southeast asia: Perspectives from Myanmar and Thailand

© 2019 Kluwer Law International BV, The Netherlands. Establishing a new competition law regime is never an easy task, especially for developing countries. The current literature of competition law is rich with suggestions on the best political economy preconditions conducive to an effective competit...

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Main Authors: Ploykaew Porananond, Po Ma Ma Aung
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spelling th-cmuir.6653943832-677902020-04-02T15:20:31Z Emerging trend in competition law in southeast asia: Perspectives from Myanmar and Thailand Ploykaew Porananond Po Ma Ma Aung Economics, Econometrics and Finance Social Sciences © 2019 Kluwer Law International BV, The Netherlands. Establishing a new competition law regime is never an easy task, especially for developing countries. The current literature of competition law is rich with suggestions on the best political economy preconditions conducive to an effective competition law regime. It is generally believed that countries with a democratic political regime and a stable rule of law are more inclined to enact national competition law. Moreover, countries that embrace the principle of trade liberalization, privatization, and market economy are a fertile ground to the growth of competition law. Yet, the enactments of Myanmar competition law in 2015 and Thailand new competition law in 2017 deviate from this general understanding. Naturally, it is assumed that competition laws adopted in these countries would be starkly different from pre-existing competition laws. It hints towards an emerging trend of competition law, one which manages to enact and enforce competition law regardless of the reality of the local political economy. This article explains the cause and consequence of this deviation, without immaturely evaluating the effectiveness of such young regimes. It concludes with investigating the likely source behind it, specifically whether the ASEAN, in which both Myanmar and Thailand are Member States, is behind such phenomenon. 2020-04-02T15:04:06Z 2020-04-02T15:04:06Z 2019-01-01 Journal 18758436 10114548 2-s2.0-85078487870 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85078487870&origin=inward http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/67790
institution Chiang Mai University
building Chiang Mai University Library
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topic Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Social Sciences
spellingShingle Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Social Sciences
Ploykaew Porananond
Po Ma Ma Aung
Emerging trend in competition law in southeast asia: Perspectives from Myanmar and Thailand
description © 2019 Kluwer Law International BV, The Netherlands. Establishing a new competition law regime is never an easy task, especially for developing countries. The current literature of competition law is rich with suggestions on the best political economy preconditions conducive to an effective competition law regime. It is generally believed that countries with a democratic political regime and a stable rule of law are more inclined to enact national competition law. Moreover, countries that embrace the principle of trade liberalization, privatization, and market economy are a fertile ground to the growth of competition law. Yet, the enactments of Myanmar competition law in 2015 and Thailand new competition law in 2017 deviate from this general understanding. Naturally, it is assumed that competition laws adopted in these countries would be starkly different from pre-existing competition laws. It hints towards an emerging trend of competition law, one which manages to enact and enforce competition law regardless of the reality of the local political economy. This article explains the cause and consequence of this deviation, without immaturely evaluating the effectiveness of such young regimes. It concludes with investigating the likely source behind it, specifically whether the ASEAN, in which both Myanmar and Thailand are Member States, is behind such phenomenon.
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Po Ma Ma Aung
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title Emerging trend in competition law in southeast asia: Perspectives from Myanmar and Thailand
title_short Emerging trend in competition law in southeast asia: Perspectives from Myanmar and Thailand
title_full Emerging trend in competition law in southeast asia: Perspectives from Myanmar and Thailand
title_fullStr Emerging trend in competition law in southeast asia: Perspectives from Myanmar and Thailand
title_full_unstemmed Emerging trend in competition law in southeast asia: Perspectives from Myanmar and Thailand
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