Vinicius Marques de Carvalho & Carlos Emmanuel Joppert Ragazzo 
International Cooperation and Competition Enforcement [PDF ebook] 
Brazilian and European Experiences from the Enforcers’ Perspective

The dramatic increase in the number of competition agencies in the last few years, in the context of a globalized economy, has made international cooperation a core element of competition enforcement. As more and more mergers, cartels, and unilateral restrictive business practises incur a cross-border dimension, cooperation among competition agencies helps achieve effective and coherent enforcement. In this context, it is important that competition authorities adopt proactive and cooperative approaches vis—vis their sister agencies in order to tackle these new challenges.