The Impact of the Socio-Economic Situation in the Region on the Quality of Competition Policy

The article discusses various aspects of competition policy effectiveness analysis. At present, the antitrust legislation has reached a certain point in its development. It should be recognized that, despite the presence of a sufficiently developed legal tool in this area, the Russian law enforcement practice is still far from the best world standards and needs serious adjustment. It is noted that there is no system analysis in this direction at present, the available estimates are characterized by inconsistency, the lack of completeness and a low degree of reliability. It is shown that the competition policy in its current form based on the application of antimonopoly legislation in its protective version can formally lead to the decrease of efficiency criterion values in the form of economic concentration indicators, on the basis of which it is necessary to transform it in the direction of making it more active. They analyzed the main sources of antitrust laws. They listed the indicators of socio-economic development level, and the hypothesis was formulated about the existence of the relationship between the level of socio-economic development of a territory and the frequency of antitrust law violations. The performed analysis will give us the information about ranking, they will know the list of territories that need attention.