Peculiarities of monitoring of competitive environment in dairy subcomplex of Ukraine

Abstract

The study of features of monitoring of competitive environment in dairy subcomplex of Ukraine has become the subject of the article. The purpose of the article is to generalize a set of instruments of monitoring of competitive environment, to explore the level of rivalry in economics of foreign countries,and to identify opportunities for its use in dairy subcomplex of Ukraine. In the article the following methods have been used: method of functional analyze, method of analysis and synthesis, abstract and logical method, method of analogies, expert method.

The generalization of main conditions of development of rivalry, the formation of competition environment and the singling out of 3 approaches to consideration of rivalry have become the main results of the research. Among main approaches we can distinguish the following ones: 1) as the motive power of functioning of market or as a force of macroeconomic regulation; 2) as an element of competition in the market or as an element of activation at the microeconomic level; 3) as a criterion for identification of the type of industry market. We have characterized the main functions of competition: distributive, saving, stimulating, adaptation, innovative, search and qualitative. It is proved that the effective accomplishment of measures of antitrust and competition regulation requires to be properly monitored. It is connected with improvement of tools of determination of appropriate level of competition of market. It has been generalized the international experience as for the lower limit on the recognition of the dominance of one company in the market and extreme permissible levels of market concentration according to the different transactions: horizontal agreements, vertical agreements, others agreements, according to the coordination of economic activity and to the concerted actions. It is proved the expediency of application of differential approach to antitrust and competitive regulation of dairy market for indicated agreements.

The results of the research can be used at the formation of tools for monitoring of the state of competition on domestic market of dairy production.