Unraveling the spreading pattern of collusively effective competition clauses
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Keywords
Wettbewerbsverhalten; competition clause; anti-competitive practice; tacit collusion; market dominance; price-matching guarantee; price-beating guarantee;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
- L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
- L41 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2022-05-02 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-IND-2022-05-02 (Industrial Organization)
- NEP-REG-2022-05-02 (Regulation)
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