Tag: Price gouging
Toward a Per Se Rule Against Price Gouging
Price gouging is the use of high prices to ration access to a good in unexpectedly short supply. Because sellers can always recoup their...
Interim Measures: A Remedy to Deal with Price Gouging in the...
Interim measures are cease-and-desist orders that can be issued when there is an imminent risk of serious and irreparable harm to competition. The adoption...
Price Gouging Under Brazilian Competition Law: Better Left Dormant?
Price gouging is a hot topic in the antitrust community as a result of COVID-19, and Brazil is no exception. In this article, we...
South Africa: Competition Commission Releases Report on Food Price Monitoring
Following the announcement of the National State of Disaster and widespread complaints of food price escalations, the Commission has today released a report on...
South Africa Fines Surgical Masks Distributor For Price-Gouging
Pharmacy chain Dis-Chem has been found guilty by South Africa’s Competition Tribunal of price gouging, and fined R1.2 million (US$70,201.86), for hiking the cost...
The antitrust duty to charge low prices
Posted by Social Science Research Network
The antitrust duty to charge low prices
By Ramsi Woodcock (Georgia State University)
Abstract: Antitrust’s embrace of the maximization of welfare in...
