Pengilley, Warren (1983) ‘Comparative Approaches to the Enforcement of Antitrust Laws Against Price-fixing Arrangements (With Special Emphasis on the Lessons to be Learned from Antitrust Law and Enforcement in Australia)’, The Antitrust Bulletin , XXVIII , 883–939....
The setting of minimum resale prices, which state fair-trade laws legalized, was precisely the sort of vertical price-fixing that the federalsherman anti-trust act of1890 (15U.S.C.A. § 1) had been intended to prohibit. While the courts wrestled with the conflicting state and federal laws...
Would a Law Against Price Gouging Work? Just as history is full of failed command economies, it also shows the ineffectiveness of attempts to regulate prices. In 1974, when the OPEC oil embargo set off inflation that made life difficult for millions, the U.S. government countered by ...
Indirect Commonwealth regulation is provided to some extent by the prescription of directors’ duties in the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (Corporations Act) and by the market-sharing and price-fixing provisions in Part IV of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth). At the State and ...
Basically, this act seeks to prevent price-fixing, boycotts, and other restraints of trade, while bolstering the Sherman Antitrust Act. Interestingly, this act has also been used to prosecute companies found guilty of deceptive advertising. ...
Twitter Google Share on Facebook antitrust laws Also found in:Thesaurus,Medical,Legal,Financial,Encyclopedia. A group of laws intended to prevent practices that tend to restrict competition such as price fixing and the formation of monopolies. ...
Maximum vertical price-fixing is at least prima facie pro-competitive, since it appears designed to keep prices to consumers low. It is therefore generally judged on a case-by-case basis, with the court balancing the pro- and anticompetitive effects of the agreement in question against each ot...
USA has strong antitrust laws that prohibit fixing market price, price discrimination, conspiring boycott, monopolizing, and adopting unfair business practices. The history of Antitrust laws goes back to 1890 when Congress passed Sherman Act. In 1914, Congress passed two more acts: Federal Trade ...
Antitrust laws are applied to a wide range of questionable business activities, including but not limited to market allocation, bid rigging, price fixing, and monopolies. Below, we take a look at the activities these laws protect against. ...
Antitrust laws also prevent multiple firms fromcolludingor forming acartelto limit competition through practices such asprice fixing. Due to the complexity of deciding what practices will limit competition, antitrust law has become a distinct legal specialization. ...