Offering a unique cross-disciplinary approach to scholarship in law and economics, this much-needed work expounds and critically evaluates all of the major doctrines of Canadian competition policy. The topics addressed, each in a separate chapter, include: Canadian competition policy in an historical context; basic economic concepts; multi-firm conduct; horizontal agreements; the merger review process; predatory pricing and price discrimination; vertical restraints; intra-brand competition; inter-brand competition; abuse of dominance; competition policy and intellectual property rights; competition policy and trade policy; competition policy and regulated industries; and enforcement.

The treatment of each substantive topic is organized first around a discussion of the relevant body (or bodies) of economic theory and then the pertinent bodies of legal doctrine, including case law. Each chapter contains a critique of existing law in light of contemporary economic theory. This is the only book available that offers an up-to-date integrated analysis of economic theory and legal doctrine in the context of Canadian competition policy.

Michael Trebilcock holds the Chair in Law and Economics in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.

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Edward M. Iacobucci is the Dean and James M. Tory Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.

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Ralph A. Winter is a Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto.

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Paul Collins, originally from Toronto, has lived and worked in Paris since 1982. He has shown in Toronto at A Space, YYZ and Mercer Union. He recently released an album of electronic music with the French composer J.J. Palix. He worked as a camera operator and image-maker at the Coach House between 1977 and 1981.

Jim→, the exhibition accompanying the Coach House book co-authored with John Armstrong, has travelled widely in Canada and Europe, most recently to the Montreal Photography Biennial in 2005.

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• Winner, Doug Purvis Memorial Prize, Canadian Economic Association