Competition Policy

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Competition Policy

Competition policy is a government policy, which seeks to promote competition and efficiency in different markets and industries.

In the News Teaching Activity – Is Live Nation-Ticketmaster abusing its monopoly power? (Apr 2026)

27th April 2026
Micro Case Study: Apple

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Micro Case Study: Amazon

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CMA Introduces Price Caps for Vet Bills

24th March 2026
Competition Policy: Baby Formula Milk Prices Remain High

1st June 2025
In the News Teaching Activity – the CMA has potentially approved a merger between Vodaphone and Three (Nov 2024)

14th November 2024
IB Economics - Policies to Encourage Competition

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In the News Teaching Activity – is the price of getting your nails done going to rise? (Apr 2024)

15th April 2024
Edexcel A-Level Economics (A) Theme 3 Knowledge Organiser Pack

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AQA A-Level Economics - Year 13 Microeconomics Knowledge Organiser Pack

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Sky High Vet Bills - CMA Launches Formal Probe

12th March 2024
CMA launches probe into prices of baby formula

29th November 2023
In the News Teaching Activity – the CMA investigates the UK’s cloud computing market (Oct 2023)

12th October 2023
Competition Policy in Action! EU looks to curb the power of big tech firms

7th September 2023
Competition Policy - CMA blocks Microsoft's takeover of Activision Blizzard

27th April 2023
Collusion in Oligopoly - Ten construction firms fined total £60m

26th March 2023
Market Power - OFCOM investigates mobile phone and broadband suppliers over pricing

13th February 2023
Examples of mergers that have been blocked by the CMA

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Penguin Scraps Merger Plan with Rival Publisher

22nd November 2022
Competition Policy - Mega Publishing Merger is Blocked

1st November 2022
Competition Policy - Ofcom to investigate tech giants’ dominance of cloud computing

22nd September 2022
Regulation of Payday Loans (Financial Economics)

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Price Discrimination: FCA acts to end price gouging of loyal customers

30th December 2021
Duopoly and Competition Policy - Apple and Google duopoly limits competition and choice

15th December 2021
Anti-competitive behaviour - CMA fines pharma firm over pricing of crucial thyroid drug

29th July 2021
Competition Policy - Biden signs anti-monopoly executive order

17th July 2021
Ladbrokes and Coral merger approved

27th July 2016
Nurofen fined heavily for mis-leading consumers

16th December 2016
BT handed biggest ever fine from Ofcom

27th March 2017
Supply-Side Economics - Product Market Reforms

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Anti-Trust Policy - Abuses of a Dominant Market Position

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Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)

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Competition Policy - Market Liberalisation

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Competition Policy in Markets and Industries

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Merger Policy in the UK and the European Union

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State Aid

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Competition Policy - Key Terms

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Competition Policy

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Monopoly and Economic Efficiency

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Oligopoly: Evaluating Costs and Benefits of Collusion

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Unit 3 Micro Answer Plan - Competition Policy

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Unit 3 Micro Answer Plan - Takeovers and Efficiency

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Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) intervenes in Viagogo's takeover of StubHub

2nd February 2021
CMA argues that Google and Facebook have too much market power

3rd July 2020
Competition policy - an investigation into government intervention to promote competition in markets [Year 12]

17th June 2020
Competition heats in contestable Spanish telecoms industry

15th June 2020
CMA probes Amazon over plan to buy Deliveroo stake

28th December 2019
Competition Policy: Preston-to-Scotland rail fares capped

6th December 2019
Advantages and Disadvantages of Monopoly Power

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A* Evaluation on Business Conduct and Efficiency

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Test 8 - Edge in Economics Revision MC - Competition Policy

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Competition Policy - Specific Examples for Exams

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Asda-Sainsbury Merger under threat from the CMA

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Funeral charges under the competition microscope

5th December 2018
Edexcel Theme 3 Micro Knowledge Book - Government Intervention

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Competition Policy (Quizlet Activity)

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Sky takeover bid to be settled by auction

21st September 2018
Co-op joins the price war in the funeral industry

10th September 2018
Maximum Prices (Government Intervention)

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Strengthening Competition in Zambia

29th June 2018
Sky/Fox merger and public interest

23rd January 2018
Sky and BT sign content sharing deal

16th December 2017
Cinema Takeover: Cineworld buys Regal

5th December 2017
Just Eat and Hungryhouse - Takeover Cleared

16th November 2017
Hotel booking sites to be investigated

27th October 2017
CMA wants reform of price comparison sites

28th September 2017
Sky-Fox merger referred to regulators

12th September 2017
Alphabet (Google) profits shrink after EU fine

25th July 2017
Record fine for Google in anti-trust case

28th June 2017
Recent mergers examples

17th May 2016
EU Blocks Takeover of O2 by Hutchinson

12th May 2016
Innovative Monopolist vs Defensive Monopolists: Monopoly Power in the United Arab Emirates

27th April 2016
Google accused of anti-competitive behaviour in the app industry

20th April 2016
Competition and Markets Authority Report on UK Energy Market (2016)

10th March 2016
Impact of competition in the mobile phone market

19th February 2016
Three-O2 Merger Plans Under Scrutiny

5th February 2016
Beyond the Bike lesson resource - analysing the impact of Uber

22nd January 2016
Nurofen - product differentiation or price discrimination?

14th December 2015
Soap powder cartel leaves stain on colluders

13th April 2011
Payday lenders subject to an interest rate cap

17th November 2014
Competition and Markets Authority to investigate pie merger

20th December 2014
Calls for greater competition in the aviation industry

2nd June 2015
Royal Mail in the dock over delivery charges

29th July 2015
Poundland and 99p Stores Set to Merge

27th August 2015
Google Rejects EU Competition Probe

28th August 2015
Poundland merger with 99p Stores approved

20th September 2015
Creative Destruction - Uber App Declared Lawful

16th October 2015
Monopoly and Welfare: Over-pricing for school uniforms

16th October 2015
Jean Tirole and the Nobel Prize | Nobel Plenary

6th November 2015

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