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....er the Competition Act, 2002 (the Act) with the objectives to prevent practices having adverse effect on competition, to promote and sustain competition in markets, to protect the interests of consumers and to ensure freedom of trade carried on by other participants in markets, in India, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. It is mandated, inter alia, to (a) give opinion on a....

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....ces at which these are to be exchanged. The invisible hands may occasionally malfunction in the presence of information asymmetry, externalities or market power. State usually intervenes to address these concerns to prevent market failure. The State intervenes in the market and the economy by (a) enacting legislations and subordinate legislations that define the contour of the freedom of economic ....

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....xit of participants; (c) perfect symmetry of information; and (d) every participant is a price taker. It is necessary to ensure that no state intervention unnecessarily humbles any of these four features significantly. Many jurisdictions have programmes to evaluate the existing/upcoming state interventions from the perspective of competition. This aims to identify the elements that may have poten....