Collective Dominance Through Tacit Coordination: The Case for Non-Coordination Between Article 82 and Merger Control “Collective Dominance” Concept

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Sophia Stephanou, Oct 08, 2009

Intervention in oligopolistic markets or to be more precise oligopolistic markets in which firms appear to be coordinating their actions, is a multifaceted topic; aspects of which have sparked some of the most intense debates in competition policy. The oligopoly problem, as it is often termed, refers to firms acting in a parallel manner in the market in such a way that competition between these firms