Excessive Pricing in Competition Law: Never say Never ?
@inproceedings{Motta2007ExcessivePI, title={Excessive Pricing in Competition Law: Never say Never ?}, author={Massimo Motta and Alexandre de Streel}, year={2007} }
In an article written for the European Competition Law Conference in 2003,1 we discussed the treatment of excessive pricing in the European Union, commented upon the case-law, and indicated which exceptional circumstances might in our view justify resorting to excessive pricing actions. We proposed a four-condition test: (1) high and non-transitory barriers to entry leading to a monopoly or near monopoly; (2) this (near) monopoly being due to current or past exclusive or special rights; (3) no…
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