Tag: Collusion
The Criminal Prosecution of Hardcore Cartels in the USA and the...
By Raphael Reims1
The criminal prosecution of hardcore cartels, i.e. the fixing of prices, imposition of output restrictions or the allocation of sales territories or...
Vertical Mergers and Coordinated Effects: Implications for Merger Policy
Vertical relationships can have coordinated effects with important implications for planned revisions of the U.S. Department of Justice merger guidelines. Despite increased efforts to...
When Climate Collaboration Is Treated as an Antitrust Violation
By: Matteo Gasparini, Knut Haanaes & Peter Tufano (Harvard Business Review)
What do Covid-19, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the climate crisis have in...
When Climate Collaboration Is Treated As An Antitrust Violation
By Matteo Gasparini,Knut Haanaes, and Peter Tufano (Harvard Business Review)
What do Covid-19, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the climate crisis have in common? All three...
South Korean Regulator Fines AstraZeneca and Local Firm for Collusion
On Thursday, October 13, the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) announced that it had fined pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and local generic pharmaceutical company Alvogen...
Horizontal Price Exchanges
By Joseph E. Harrington Jr (University of Pennsylvania) & Christopher R. Leslie (University of California)
The private exchange of prices by competitors has long been...
Court Denies University’s Motion To Dismiss Financial Aid Collusion Suit
Emory University could have provided each undergraduate student on financial aid an additional $14,256 scholarship toward tuition, room, board and fees, on average, if...
Developing More Vigorous Anti-cartel Enforcement by Promoting Deterrence
In spite of the many successes in the fight against cartels, enforcement is likely to be suboptimal because competition authorities systematically underdeter cartel formation....
Artificial Intelligence Teaches Itself to Collude? What Increasingly Sophisticated AI Could...
The availability of big data and increasing sophistication of algorithms and artificial intelligence has had an evolving impact on strategic decision-making across sectors. Pricing...
Indian Cement Giants Face Millions In Fines For Collusion
Swiss giant Holcim's India units and more than a dozen other cement manufacturers colluded to raise prices and restrict supplies for years, which included...
