Chapter 3Competition and Predation Legal Aspects

Ruwantissa Abeyratne

1. Introduction

From an economic perspective, competition represents conditions that occur in markets allowing buyers and sellers to interact with a view to establishing prices and exchanging goods and services. Therefore, economic competition admits of a compelling synergy between buyers and sellers and their self interest to serve the needs of a society as well as those of individual market participants by producing a maximum number of goods at the lowest possible prices. However, from a legal perspective, competition is associated with the rights of the competitor as well as the consumer, whereby the former is precluded from exercising dominance over others in the overall ...

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