Tackling Anti-competitive Unilateral Acts under the Ethiopian Competition Regime: A Case Study of Electronic Trading at Ethiopia Commodity Exchange
| dc.contributor.advisor | Abay, Solomon (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tilahun, Michael | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-06T12:46:53Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-08T11:44:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-07-06T12:46:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-08T11:44:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Anticompetitive Unilateral Acts are one of Anticompetitive Acts markets could face. The 2014 Ethiopian Trade competition and consumer protection proclamation, inter alia, provide rules for acts of unfair competition and these rules are the closet rules which resembles to Anticompetitive Unilateral Act; despite their focus on violation of intellectual property rights such as misleading advertisement false allegation etc. against another trader. As a market which facilitates competitive trading platform, the Electronic Trading System in Ethiopia Commodity Exchange is expected to implement competition law of the country. The Electronic Trading System faced / still faces various Anticompetitive Acts; including Anlicompetitive Unilateral Acts. The Anticompetitive Unilateral Acts observed in the Commodity Exchange includes flash crashing, Unrepresentative pricing, Failure / refusal to submit trade orders, Pace making, Marking the closing price, Cornering, Dumping, and Matching orders. These Anticompetitive Unilateral Acts are not directly or indirectly mentioned under the compelition and consumer protection proclamation. Considering the substantive content of unfair competition rules of the Trade Competition and Consumer Proleclion and Anlicompetilive Unilateral Acts observed in the Commodity Exchange's Electronic Trading System, this thesis investigates whether unfair competition rules under the Competition and Consumer Prolection Proclamation are the best means to lackle Anricompelitive Unilateral Acts observed in the commodity exchange's Electronic Trading System or not. Particularly, the Ihesis revolves around IWO research questions: (J), does the existing competition regime provide proper rules which adequately tackle Ihe Anticompetitive Unilateral Acls observed in the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange Electronic Trading ? And (2), how are the exisling Anticompelitive Unilaleral Acts in Ihe Ethiopia Commodity Exchange Electronic Trading being tackled by Ihe exchange's rules and are the measures consistent with Ihe rules of the competition law? It is inIhis light that this thesis seeks to invesligate the nature of unfair competition rules of the Competition and Consumer Protection Proclamation, Anticompetitive Unilateral Acts Observed in the Electronic Trading System of the Commodity Exchange, rules of the Commodity Exchange, and incidents addressed by the commodity exchange inlhis regard. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/27091 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa | en_US |
| dc.title | Tackling Anti-competitive Unilateral Acts under the Ethiopian Competition Regime: A Case Study of Electronic Trading at Ethiopia Commodity Exchange | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |