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Antitrust Chronicle® – Price Gouging

Summer 2020, Volume 3, Number 2

Dear Readers, Price gouging is perhaps the most paradoxical of antitrust offenses. Courts and regulators are at pains to point out that the mere possession of monopoly power is in itself not problematic. Yet the most natural expression of monopoly power – charging monopoly prices – is nonetheless a potential infringement. Drawing up appropriate rules […]

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