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Antitrust Chronicle® – Hub-&-Spoke Conspiracies

Dear Readers,   Hub-and-spoke theories have long occupied an uneasy middle ground in antitrust law. They sit somewhere between the relative comfort of bilateral vertical agreements and the more demanding...

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Hub-and-spoke theories have long occupied an uneasy middle ground in antitrust law.




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Recidivism has an intuitive moral pull in antitrust: if competition law is meant to deter, repeat offending feels like the clearest evidence that deterrence has failed. Yet, as this edition’s contributions show, recidivism is also a concept riddled with definitional, institutional, and jurisdictional complexity.


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ANTITRUST ECONOMICS AT A TIME OF UPHEAVAL: Recent Competition Policy Cases on Two Continents

ANTITRUST ECONOMICS AT A TIME OF UPHEAVAL: Recent Competition Policy Cases on Two Continents

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