Tag: Price Fixing
United States v. Apple and the Contemporary Legitimacy of Antitrust
Chris Sagers, Jun 13, 2012
I think United States v. Apple, the so-called "e-Books case" pending in the Southern District of New York, is an excellent...
The eBooks Case: A Canadian Perspective
Mark Katz, Steve Szentesi, Jun 13, 2012
Shortly after the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") filed its claim in the eBooks case earlier this year,...
Screens in the Gas Retail Market: The Brazilian Experience
Carlos Ragazzo, Mar 13, 2012
Prices in the gas retail market were heavily regulated by the Brazilian government until the late 1990s. At the beginning...
Time-Series Models for Estimating Economic Damages in Antitrust (and Other) Litigation:...
Paul Godek, Dec 13, 2011
Economic damages can arise from a variety of bad acts: a breach of contract, a patent violation, an oil-spill, or...
New Lessons for Pleading the FTAIA
Max Huffman, Nov 16, 2011
In September 2011, in Minn-Chem Inc. v. Agrium Inc., the Seventh Circuit concluded that allegations of price-fixing in foreign commerce,...
Minn-Chem Incorporated et al. v. Agrium Incorporated et al.: A Canadian...
Erika Douglas, Mark Katz, Nov 16, 2011
This article provides a Canadian perspective on the recent decision of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals...
A Good Carrot? U.S. Travel Restrictions in Cartel Enforcement
Patrick Eyers, J. Mark Gidley, Oct 14, 2011
Based on an obscure memorandum, foreign executives accused of price-fixing in the United States face a Hobson's...
The Adoption of Screening Tools by Competition Authorities
ICNKai Huschelrath, Ulrich Laitenberger, Sep 28, 2011
These days, the fight against hard-core cartels is ranked high on the agenda of many competition authorities around...
The Criminalization of Serious Cartel Conduct in Australia
Manish Agarwal, David Round, May 14, 2010
On July 24, 2009, the Trade Practices Amendment (Cartel Conduct and Other Measures) Act 2009 ("Cartels Act") came...
Australia’s Proposed Information Disclosure Legislation: International Worst Practice
Caron Beaton-Wells, Brent Fisse, Aug 30, 2011
Regulating information disclosure and exchange by competitors is widely seen as one of the most challenging aspects of...
