Introduction -- Disribution and competition -- US development, case studies and summaries -- EU development, case studies and summaries -- Theories and impacts of RPM and VTR on competition -- Jurisprudential arguments and the economic concept of RPM and VTR

By reference to case-law and soft law in three jurisdictions (Canada, US and EU), this paper explores how courts and agencies carry out balancing exercises in the application of competition law. The paper identifies three approaches: utilitarian balancing, consumer welfare balancing, and...

"In recent years, market definition has come under attack as an analytical tool of competition law. Scholars have increasingly questioned its usefulness and feasibility. That criticism comes into sharper relief in dynamic, innovation-driven markets, which do not correspond to the static markets...