Topics
Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
The CMA has been created by unifying the Competition Commission with most functions of the Office of Fair Trading – tackling price fixing, monopolies and unfair mergers.
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Nationwide’s Bold Move to Acquire Virgin Money
19th July 2024
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Business Economics - Two Mega Mergers!
10th July 2024
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Sky High Vet Bills - CMA Launches Formal Probe
12th March 2024
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CMA to investigate anti-competitive behaviour among leading house builders
27th February 2024
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CMA launches probe into prices of baby formula
29th November 2023
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Horizontal Integration - Mega Merger in UK Telecoms
14th June 2023
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Collusion in Oligopoly - Ten construction firms fined total £60m
26th March 2023
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Business De-mergers
Study Notes
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Hearing Aids Merger Under CMA Investigation
6th December 2022
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Penguin Scraps Merger Plan with Rival Publisher
22nd November 2022
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Competition Policy - Mega Publishing Merger is Blocked
1st November 2022
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Horizontal Integration - Vodafone and Three in Merger Talks
3rd October 2022
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Regulation of Payday Loans (Financial Economics)
Study Notes
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Horizontal Integration - National Express seals takeover of rival Stagecoach
14th December 2021
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Ladbrokes and Coral merger approved
27th July 2016
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Model agencies found guilty of price fixing
18th December 2016
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Secondary ticket markets - blessing or curse for consumers?
19th December 2016
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Tesco Goes for External Growth with Booker Takeover
27th January 2017
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Short Videos on Price Fixing
1st February 2017
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Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
Study Notes
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Competition Policy - Market Liberalisation
Study Notes
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Competition Policy in Markets and Industries
Study Notes
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Competition Policy - Key Terms
Study Notes
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Monopoly Power in Markets
Topic Videos
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Contestable Markets
Teaching PowerPoints
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Unit 3 Micro Answer Plan - Competition Policy
Exam Support
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Leveraged buy-outs - How to buy a £6.8bn supermarket for £780m
16th February 2021
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Competition heats in contestable Spanish telecoms industry
15th June 2020
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Just Eat buys US rival GrubHub
11th June 2020
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Business Types and Business Growth (Online Lesson)
Online Lessons
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Virgin and O2 plan merger
3rd May 2020
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CMA probes Amazon over plan to buy Deliveroo stake
28th December 2019
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Competition Policy: Preston-to-Scotland rail fares capped
6th December 2019
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Takeovers - Clear The Deck Key Term Knowledge Activity
Quizzes & Activities
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Advantages and Drawbacks of Horizontal Integration
Topic Videos
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Mergers and Consumer Welfare (Revision Essay Plan)
Practice Exam Questions
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Competition Policy - Specific Examples for Exams
Topic Videos
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Salmon farmers in Scotland in price-fixing inquiry
21st February 2019
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Asda-Sainsbury Merger under threat from the CMA
Study Notes
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Funeral charges under the competition microscope
5th December 2018
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Oligopoly and Examples of Price Fixing
Study Notes
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Oligopoly and Collusion (Revision Essay Plan)
Practice Exam Questions
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CMA to investigate funeral price fixing
1st June 2018
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Sainsbury's and Asda set for giant retail merger
28th April 2018
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Sky/Fox merger and public interest
23rd January 2018
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Sky and BT sign content sharing deal
16th December 2017
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Just Eat and Hungryhouse - Takeover Cleared
16th November 2017
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Competition and Markets Authority - "Concentration" Activity
14th November 2017
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Hotel booking sites to be investigated
27th October 2017
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CMA wants reform of price comparison sites
28th September 2017
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Estate agent cartel is fined
20th September 2017
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Sky-Fox merger referred to regulators
12th September 2017
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Record fine for Google in anti-trust case
28th June 2017
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A Model Example of Collusion!
25th May 2016
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Recent mergers examples
17th May 2016
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Impact of competition in the mobile phone market
19th February 2016
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Micro experiments - If it costs nothing, is it worth anything?
3rd February 2016
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Competition and Markets Authority to investigate pie merger
20th December 2014
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Oligopoly - Recent Examples of Price Fixing Behaviour
31st January 2015
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Poundland agrees a takeover of 99p Stores
8th February 2015
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Recent examples of corporate takeovers and mergers
17th February 2015
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CMA targets pay day lenders and comparison websites
24th February 2015
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Poundland and 99p Stores Set to Merge
27th August 2015
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Poundland merger with 99p Stores approved
20th September 2015
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Monopoly and Welfare: Over-pricing for school uniforms
16th October 2015
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Jean Tirole and the Nobel Prize | Nobel Plenary
6th November 2015
