Competition policy and price fixing /

Throughout the world, the rule against price fixing is competition law's most important and least controversial prohibition. Yet there is far less consensus than meets the eye on what constitutes price fixing, and prevalent understandings conflict with the teachings of oligopoly theory that sup...

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Hlavní autor: Kaplow, Louis
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press 2013.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt2jc8k1
Obsah:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Horizontal agreements
  • Defining the problem
  • Communications
  • Statutory provisions and higher court interpretations
  • U.S. lower court practice
  • Paradox of proof
  • Oligopoly theory and the agreement requirement
  • Price-fixing policy
  • Social welfare
  • Framework for decision-making
  • Detection : market-based evidence
  • Detection : other types of evidence
  • Liability assessment
  • Sanctions
  • Unilateral market power
  • Additional considerations
  • Comparison of approaches
  • Communications-based prohibition
  • Detection of prohibited communications
  • Further topics.