Both market structure and corporate practices of Archer Daniels Midland fostered the implementation of the largest price-fixing conspiracies seen in modern times. The overcharges imposed on U.S. buyers of lysine and citric acid during 1994-1995 by ADM and its co-conspirators amounted to at least...

Japan showed strong economic recovery from the crisis. Executive Directors welcomed the development and stressed the need for a strong monetary framework, well-designed fiscal consolidation, and structural reforms. Directors agreed that the Bank of Japan’s monetary framework is well...

Antitrust law is firmly grounded in rational choice theory. The behavioral antitrustliterature introduces irrationality into the analysis of the reasons and effects of firms'behavior. Behavioral scholars claim that several antitrust issues may be better understoodby taking account of heuristics...

La disciplina nazionale sul controllo delle concentrazioni prevede un obbligo di notifica quando il fatturato delle imprese interessate (ovverosia la somma del fatturato del gruppo acquirente e della società oggetto di acquisizione) supera la soglia di 472 milioni di euro realizzati in Italia o...

The article analyses the e-books history, scrutinizing the main changes that haveoccurred in the traditional publishing industry and paying attention to the elementsthat characterize the new market. In this perspective, it is thus assessed the Us andEuropean antitrust case concerning the...

A due anni e mezzo dalla loro adozione, la funzione degli Orientamentisugli abusi di posizione dominante a carattere escludente è ancora poco chiara, anche a causa dell'atteggiamento della Commissione. La dichiarata irrilevanza degli Orientamenti dal punto di vista legale potrebbe persino...