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How to better assess whether sustainability agreements are beneficial

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What should competition authorities do when an agreement between competitors would both promote sustainability and restrict competition? In this article, Nadine Watson explains that – even within the consumer welfare framework – authorities can already support more sustainability agreements. Drawing on lessons from environmental economics, she demonstrates that the apparent tension between consumers’ interests and the environment is often a failure in analysts’ methodology, not in consumers’ values.

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