{"id":2629,"date":"2019-03-15T10:01:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T09:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dreport.cz\/en\/?p=2629"},"modified":"2019-03-28T13:15:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T12:15:03","slug":"the-pros-of-having-a-strong-and-independent-competition-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreport.cz\/en\/blog\/the-pros-of-having-a-strong-and-independent-competition-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"The pros of having a strong and independent competition authority"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The interaction of firms on the market is strongly regulated and competition authorities should make sure that firms do business on an equal playing field. In a competitive environment, the pressure on efficiency and effectiveness is ever greater. In order to withstand this trend, firms must keep coming up with quality and innovative goods at better prices. This is beneficial not only for consumers. Greater purchasing power of consumers and growth in firms\u2019 production ultimately contribute to the growth of the entire economy. If the rules in place are followed, firms will remain driven to offer a wide range of quality and innovative products at low prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":2630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[382,384,8],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","tag-ecn-directive","tag-competition-regulations","tag-dreport-newsletter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreport.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreport.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreport.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreport.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreport.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreport.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2803,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreport.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions\/2803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreport.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreport.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreport.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreport.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}