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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kaplow, Louis (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Edición:Course Book
Temas:
Antitrust law.
Competition > Government policy.
Droit de la concurrence.
Fixation des prix.
Intégration horizontale.
Politique des prix.
Preisabsprache.
Preisregelung.
Price fixing.
Wettbewerbsordnung.
Wettbewerbspolitik.
Wettbewerbsrecht.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General.
EU Article 101.
European Union.
Sherman Act Section 1.
Supreme Court precedents.
U.S. antitrust law.
U.S. lower court.
adjudication.
agreement requirement.
alternative rule.
burden of proof.
cheating.
chilling effects.
circumstantial evidence.
classic cartels.
communication-based prohibition.
communications technology.
communications-based prohibition.
communications.
competition law.
competition policy.
competition rules.
consumer welfare.
contrasting approaches.
conventional prohibition.
coordinated behavior.
coordinated oligopoly pricing.
coordinated price elevation.
corporate strategy.
decision-making framework.
decision-theoretic approach.
detection.
deterrence benefits.
deterrence.
differentiated products.
differentiation.
direct approach.
game theory.
homogeneous goods.
horizontal agreements.
horizontal-restraints cases.
indirect approach.
industry conditions.
injunctions.
institutional issues.
interdependence.
interdependent coordination.
interfirm communication.
interfirm communications.
internal evidence.
investigation.
language.
liability assessment.
liability.
lower courts.
market behavior.
market conditions.
market-based evidence.
market-based techniques.
modern competition policy.
modern oligopoly theory.
monetary sanctions.
negative behavioral effects.
nonprice coordination.
nonprice terms.
oligopolies.
oligopolistic coordination.
oligopolistic industries.
oligopolistic price elevation.
oligopoly behavior.
oligopoly theory.
orthodox prohibition.
paradox of proof.
polar-opposite cases.
price coordination.
price cutting.
price elevation.
price fixing.
price-fixing cases.
price-fixing prohibition.
prior scholarship.
pure interdependence.
remedies.
sanctions.
social welfare consequences.
social welfare.
unilateral market power.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Summary of Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part I: Horizontal Agreements
  • 2. Defining the Problem
  • 3. Communications
  • 4. Statutory Provisions and Higher Court Interpretations
  • 5. U.S. Lower Court Practice
  • 6. Paradox of Proof
  • 7. Oligopoly Theory and the Agreement Requirement
  • Part II: Price-Fixing Policy
  • 8. Social Welfare
  • 9. Framework for Decision-Making
  • 10. Detection: Market-Based Evidence
  • 11. Detection: Other Types of Evidence
  • 12. Liability Assessment
  • 13. Sanctions
  • 14. Unilateral Market Power
  • 15. Additional Considerations
  • Part III: Comparison of Approaches
  • 16. Communications-Based Prohibition
  • 17. Detection of Prohibited Communications
  • 18. Further Topics
  • 19. Conclusion
  • References
  • Index

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