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Institutions, procedures, and methods shape the paths from goals to decisions. This chapter examines that path. The following questions are central: Who makes the decisions? What are their incentives and influences? Which methods do they use for which purposes? The focus is on decisions both formal and informal and on the influences that shape them. The chapter examines the institutions of competition law—legislatures, competition authorities, and courts, identifying the structures and incentives of each as well as the roles played by size, structure, and capacities. Methods are the tools the institutions use in reaching decisions—or at least justifying them. The chapter reviews the use of economic and judicial methods in competition law and the ways in which economic methods interact with conventional legal and judicial methods to shape decisions. |
