CUTS Centre for Competition, Investment & Economic Regulation (CUTS C-CIER)

To confer a distinct identity to CUTS’ work on Competition, Investment and Regulatory Issues, the centre was established in the beginning of 2003, and was named CUTS Centre for Competition, Investment & Economic Regulation (CUTS CCIER). Centre has an International Advisory Board (IAB) headed by eminent competition expert Prof. Frederic Jenny (a Judge in the French Supreme Court) and Comprising other academicians, practitioners and intergovernmental organisation specialists. More...

"Promoting Fair Markets to Enhance Consumer Welfare and Economic Development"

What's New

MCA resists Competition Act changes
Live Mint, January 20, 2012

Global problems & solutions
The Financial Express, January 13, 2012

TRAI keeps consumer out of the loop
Business Line, January 13, 2012

Multi-level marketing – in need of cognate regulation?
Times of India, December 30, 2011

Symposium on Trade in Primary Products and Competition Policy
September 22, 2011, Geneva

Showcase

2nd Call for World Competition Day

Competition Distortions in India
– A Dossier

Competition and Consumer Policies in MENA Countries

Unholy Alliances in Healthcare Services

The research report of the project entitled, Collusive Behaviour in Healthcare Delivery in India: Need for Effective Regulation (COHED Project) is now available.

Evolution of Competition Laws and their Enforcement: A Political Economy Perspective

The book covers case studies of nine countries of differing sizes and at varying stages of economic development that have at one stage or another repealed extant competition laws...


News Updates
Competition Issues	Economic Regulation Issues	Investment Climate Issues
Rwanda Competition Bill to be tabled in Parliament *The New Times, October 26, 2011* Competition Act needs amendment: CII *Press Trust of India, October 24, 2011* FTC revises Rules of Practice for Part 3 administrative hearings Winston & Strawn LLP, October 05, 2011	Revamped DGCA to have more power *Livemint, October 25, 2011* Justice criticized over proposed FOIA regulation *Associated Press, October 27, 2011* Assocham calls for co-regulation of media broadcast content *Business Line, October 31, 2011*	India Reviewing Foreign Investment Policy in Aviation *Business Line, October 31, 2011* Algeria Government admits policy problem for FDI *Les Afriques, October 06, 2011* New FDI Policy: Cloud over options *Bar & Bench News Network, October 03, 2011*

Last updated: January 20, 2012