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El derecho de la competencia (en inglés Competition Law, conocido en Estados Unidos como Antitrust Law) es la rama del Derecho que se encarga de regular el comercio mediante la prohibición de restricciones ilegales, la fijación de precios y los monopolios.
31 de may. de 2024 · Antitrust laws regulate the concentration of economic power to prevent companies from price colluding or creating monopolies.
It is also known as antitrust law (or just antitrust), anti-monopoly law, and trade practices law; the act of pushing for antitrust measures or attacking monopolistic companies (known as trusts) is commonly known as trust busting. The history of competition law reaches back to the Roman Empire.
In the United States and Canada, and to a lesser extent in the European Union, the modern law governing monopolies and economic competition is still known by its original name, "antitrust law". In most other countries, however, it is now called "competition law" or "anti-monopoly law".
The antitrust laws proscribe unlawful mergers and business practices in general terms, leaving courts to decide which ones are illegal based on the facts of each case. Courts have applied the antitrust laws to changing markets, from a time of horse and buggies to the present digital age.
Antitrust rules prohibit agreements between market operators that would restrict competition, and the abuse of dominance. European Antitrust policy is developed from two central rules set out in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union:
La política de defensa de la competencia nació en Estados Unidos, hace ya más de un siglo, con la Interstate Commerce Act, de 1887, y la Sherman Antitrust Act, de 1890, que declaró ilegal cualquier «contrato, acuerdo […] o conspiración para restringir el comercio entre diferentes Estados o con naciones extranjeras» El primer caso en el ...
