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Regulators worldwide need bigger powers to tackle market problems, OECD chief says

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 07 Dec 2020 11:19
  • 07 Dec 2020 11:19
Competition regulators around the globe need new powers to address poorly functioning markets, the head of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development said today.
"Competition authorities must consider new tools, like market investigations, that help address competition problems in markets, outside the context of enforcement proceedings," said Angel Gurría,

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Nicholas Hirst

Chief Correspondent


Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

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