The two central pricing rules contained in most antirust laws are prohibitions of below-cost pricing and prohibitions of discriminatory pricing. This article shows that the rule against discriminatory pricing may actually induce firms to charge exclusionary below-cost prices, even in the...

Antitrust issues in the digital economy, especially those concerning big data and algorithms, have attracted the attention of both scholars and practitioners all around the world. Against the backdrop of rapid development of China's digital economy, many online platforms now have a largely data-...

The main objective of this article is to shed light on the compatibility of price discrimination with EC competition law. We offer an analytical framework which distinguishes between different categories of price discrimination depending on their effects on competition. Our framework suggests...

Price discrimination is rampant in the sale of rapid acting insulin and other patented drugs. That discrimination frequently results in uninsured or under-insured patients paying the highest prices. I focus here primarily on the possibility that the targeted price discrimination in the marketing...