NMa Working Paper - The Economic Detection Instrument of the Netherlands Competition Authority

This paper discusses the economic detection instrument of the Netherlands Competition Authority: the Competition Index (CI). This pro-active instrument aims to detect industries that are prone to anticompetitive behaviour. The paper firstly discusses the CI methodology. Nine economic indicators are used as a basis for this screening approach. The analysis is applied on the Dutch economy, which is divided into 500 industries for this purpose. The second part of the paper presents the results for the Dutch economy. Finally, various tests to assess the methodology are executed, as well as a sensitivity check. From these tests, we conclude that the CI produces rather robust results. The CI serves as an additional instrument to complaints, signals, whistleblowers, etc. which may be used to find possible problematic cases regarding anticompetitive behaviour.

Attachments

NMa Working Paper - The Economic Detection Instrument of the Netherlands Competition Authority (PDF - 630.51 KB)

We do our utmost to make our documents accessible. However, this is unfortunately not always possible. If you are unable to read a document on our website using a screen reader or if you are unable to discern the colors of charts, please send us an email. We will contact you within a week. And we will try to send you an accessible version within 4 weeks.