Tackling Anti-Competitive Unilateral Acts Under the Ethiopian Competition Regime: A Case Study of Electronic Trading at Ethiopia Commodity Exchange
| dc.contributor.advisor | Solomon Abay (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Michael Tilahun | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-03-05T12:56:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-03-05T12:56:34Z | |
| 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 lawof the country. The Electronic Trading System faced / still faces various Anticompetitive Acts; includingAnticompetitive 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 competition and consumer protection proclamation. Considering the substantive content of unfair competition rules of the Trade Competition and Consumer Protection and Anticompetitive Unilateral Acts observed in the Commodity Exchange’s Electronic Trading System, this thesis investigates whether unfair competition rules under the Competition and Consumer Protection Proclamation are the best means to tackle Anticompetitive Unilateral Acts observed in the commodity exchange’s Electronic Trading System or not.Particularly, the thesis revolves around two research questions: (1), does the existing competition regime provide proper rules which adequately tackle the Anticompetitive Unilateral Acts observed in the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange Electronic Trading? And (2), how are the existing Anticompetitive Unilateral Acts in the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange Electronic Trading being tackled by the exchange’s rules and are the measures consistent with the rules of the competition law? It is in this light that this thesis seeks to investigate 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 in this regard. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/4588 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | |
| dc.subject | Flash crush | |
| dc.subject | Unrepresentative pricing | |
| dc.subject | Failure / refusal to submit orders | |
| dc.subject | Pace making | |
| dc.subject | Marking the closing price | |
| dc.subject | Cornering and dumping | |
| dc.subject | Matching orders | |
| dc.subject | Trading sessions | |
| dc.subject | Electronic trading system | |
| dc.subject | Unfair competition | |
| dc.title | Tackling Anti-Competitive Unilateral Acts Under the Ethiopian Competition Regime: A Case Study of Electronic Trading at Ethiopia Commodity Exchange | |
| dc.type | Thesis |