Passing-on-Standing Matrix in Private Antitrust Enforcement:: a Reconciliation of Economic and Justice Approaches

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11220%2F13%3A10190567" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11220/13:10190567 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/28517/MWP_2013_30.pdf?sequence=1" target="_blank" >http://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/28517/MWP_2013_30.pdf?sequence=1</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Passing-on-Standing Matrix in Private Antitrust Enforcement:: a Reconciliation of Economic and Justice Approaches

Original language description

Any scheme for private antitrust enforcement is framed by two main questions: who will have standing - direct or indirect purchasers - and will the passing-on defense be allowed. Imagine that a cartel of oil producers forces gas stations - direct purchasers - to buy petrol at a higher than competitive price. The gas stations then raise the price for the final customers - indirect purchasers. When the gas stations sue the cartel, the cartelist will claim that no damage has occurred to the gas stations, because the gas stations have passed on the overcharge to its final customers - the passing-on defense. In the United States, the ruling of the California Supreme Court in Clayworth v. Pfizer, alongside a report of the Antitrust Modernization Commission of 2007, spurred new debate on whether the 1970s Federal case law should be overruled. The situation in the European Union has been even more challenging. The Court of Justice of the EU surprised everybody with two landmark cases in the ea

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AG - Legal sciences

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

EUI Working Papers MWP

ISSN

1830-7728

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2013

Issue of the periodical within the volume

30

Country of publishing house

IT - ITALY

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

1-22

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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