Competition Policy and Price Fixing /

Competition Policy and Price Fixing / / Louis Kaplow.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Kaplow, Louis,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (512 p.) :; 25 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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