On 21 July 2020, the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) published a paper written by the outgoing chairman of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Andrew Tyrie (see here). The paper has been prepared with the assistance of the CMA’s chief economist and members of the senior executive team. The paper explores the question of how competition policy should react to the outbreak of the 2019 coronavirus disease.
Lord Tyrie's paper examines the short term and lasting consequences of the coronavirus pandemic for markets and competition. A summary of the paper is considered in the linked article below:
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