6. How Different Are Latin American Countries from the EU and the US Regarding the Socio-Economic Variables Under Study?

The following part of the present work will assess the degree of influence of EU and US antitrust law on selected Latin American countries. The focus will be on exclusionary conduct by a firm with a sufficient degree of market power. The comparison will look into how much ease (difficulty) of entry the defendant (plaintiff) has to prove in order to dissipate (warrant) concerns regarding monopoly power/dominant position. In order to evaluate the justification of EU and US influence in Latin America, it is necessary as a first step to present the degree to which countries in the latter region differ with respect to the EU and the US concerning the characteristics presented in the previous chapter. This chapter presents a summary of publicly available data that measure these differences.