Resale price maintenance: Explaining the controversy, and small steps towards a more nuanced policy

Bennett, Matthew, Fletcher, Amelia, Giovannetti, Emanuele and Stallibrass, David (2011) Resale price maintenance: Explaining the controversy, and small steps towards a more nuanced policy. Fordham International Law Journal, 33. p. 1278.

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Abstract

The paper sets out why we consider that the legal framework in the EU amplifies what are in reality relatively small differences in thinking around RPM. Primarily, this is because it asks economists, in the name of legal certainty, to draw a false dichotomy between agreements and practices which are harmful and those which are beneficial. We then provide a summary of the literature on RPM and, based on this thinking, set out a few small steps that might be taken towards a more nuanced approach to assessing RPM, within a 'presumed illegality' framework without sacrificing the beneficial legal certainty that the current approach brings.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: economics, econometrics and finance(all) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2000
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Responsible Business Regulation Group
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy
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Depositing User: Pure Connector
Date Deposited: 21 Jan 2014 12:08
Last Modified: 20 Jun 2023 14:45
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/47305
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