Tag: Cartel

By: Edward Coulson, Benjamin Blacklock & Alexandra Hildyard (Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner) In July 2016, the European Commission (the Commission) issued a settlement decision, concluding...

UBC has expressed criticism towards EU antitrust regulators regarding the calculation of their 172.4-million-euro cartel fine. They claim that the figure was arbitrary and...

By Alexandre Girard, Jean-Yves Gnabo & Rodrigo Londoño van Rutten, University of Namur & UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels This paper examines the effect of firms’ lobbying...

This article explores the Spanish caselaw on the trucks cartel damages claims. It presents a rigorous empirical assessment of the courts' decisions (as of...

By Maarten Pieter Schinkel & Leonard Treuren (University of Amsterdam) Industry-wide voluntary agreements are touted as a means for corporations to take more corporate social...

Buyer power issues are of increasing concern for competition law and policy. This includes buyer cartels. It is important to distinguish cartels from legitimate...

In spite of enjoying substantial commercial success, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (“NCAA”) continues to limit the compensation of student-athletes through collusive monopsonistic restraints....

While there is general agreement that buyer collusion can be as anticompetitive (and illegal) as seller collusion, the sparse caselaw on buyer cartels leaves...

The Austrian Federal Competition Authority (AFCA) filed another application with the Cartel Court to impose fines on seven companies from an Austrian construction group...

US investment bank Goldman Sachs on Wednesday, January 27, lost its fight against an EU cartel fine handed down to its former Italian subsidiary...