Competition Laws as a Social Institution

This study is aimed at exploring the competition law as a social institution in Thailand, which is to examine specifically why competition laws in general have been a misery but telecommunications regulations have been a blessing despite their very same competition principles. With a normative view, it has been usually explained that Thai competition laws are in general vague and out-of-date, compared to telecom regulations which have more regulatory details and up-to-date. This explanation lacks merit because competition laws are actually in its early life as well as telecommunications laws. With a sociological view, this dissertation offers an explanation to why the telecommunications authority has been able to give effect to laws while competition authority has nullified them.

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Piyabutr Bunaramrueang, J.S.D. es profesor de Derecho de la Competencia y Derecho y Tecnología en la Universidad de la Cámara de Comercio Tailandesa (UTCC), Bangkok (Tailandia). Recibió sus títulos de LL.M. y J.S.D. de la Facultad de Derecho de la UC Berkeley con una beca de la UTCC. Sus intereses de investigación son las leyes y políticas relacionadas con la competencia, la tecnología y los medios de comunicación.