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This article explores whether cartelists should be liable for losses resulting from umbrella pricing, thereby critically evaluating the ECJ's judgment in “Kone”. Since the EU legislature did not resolve the question of liability for umbrella pricing, it has to be evaluated in accordance with...
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of market such as price transparency, high speed trading which increases the likelihood of collusion. The ability of … pricing algorithm to solve the cartel incentive problem by quickly detecting and punishing the deviant further strengthen the … humans. This raises the fundamental challenge for anti-cartel enforcement as the current law in most jurisdictions is ill …
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likely to remain insufficient to deter collusion, unless European cartel enforcement produces a high (perceived) probability … representative modern international cartel. The exercise reveals that the Commission's recent commitments to punish cartels are … of discovery across the board. This calls for broad, unbiased, random and active cartel detection …
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We explain why competing firms form collective entities to buy patents from other entities, particularly from non-producing entities (NPEs), and follow a catch and release patent strategy. We show why competitors bidding as a single unit is better than competitors bidding against each other and...
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After arguing that collusion by software programs which choose pricing rules without any human intervention is not in … violation of section 1 of the Sherman Act, the paper offers a path towards making collusion by autonomous agents unlawful …
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theory to show how an interbank lending rates cartel can be sustained by preemptive portfolio changes. Exchange of … direction in which to rig the rate, however, their interests need to be sufficiently aligned. In this paper we develop cartel … in eligible transactions rigging to justify their submissions. As the cartel is not able to always find stable …
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