Information exchange through non-binding advance price announcements: An antitrust analysis
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- Willem Boshoff & Stefan Frübing & Kai Hüschelrath, 2018. "Information exchange through non-binding advance price announcements: an antitrust analysis," European Journal of Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 45(3), pages 439-468, June.
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Keywords
antitrust policy; collusion; information exchange; price announcements;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L41 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
- K21 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - Antitrust Law
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2015-09-11 (Business Economics)
- NEP-COM-2015-09-11 (Industrial Competition)
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