Full Description
Is competition law able to deal with algorithmic collusion? This evaluative book provides an insight into tackling this important question for competition law, with contrasting critical perspectives, including theoretical, empirical, and doctrinal - the latter frequently from a comparative perspective.
Bringing together scholarly discussion on algorithmic collusion, the book questions whether competition law is adeptly equipped to deal with its various facets. With a comprehensive overview of the recent literature on algorithmic collusion, chapters offer a critical appraisal of the effectiveness of competition law to deal with algorithmic collusion. Covering a unique collection of legal, theoretical, and experimental case studies, it initiates debate among legal scholars for a better understanding of the data upon which algorithms decide prices.
With a comparative identification of both the potentialities and limitations of competition law in relation to algorithmic collusion, this book will be of key value to students and scholars of competition law, economics and finance. It will also be an invaluable resource for legal practitioners and policy makers in the field.
Contents
Contents:
Preface x
Salil K. Mehra
Acknowledgements xii
1 The algorithmic collusion debate: a focus on
(autonomous) tacit collusion 1
Steven Van Uytsel
2 Algorithms and the limits of antitrust 39
Thomas Weck
3 Artificially intelligent collusion caught under EU competition law 48
Jan Blockx
4 Can the reformed Australian competition law stop
algorithmic collusion? 67
Baskaran Balasingham
5 Tackling algorithmic collusion: the scope of the Indian
Competition Act 92
Nikita Koradia, Kiran Manokaran and Zara Saeed
6 Challenges brought by and in response to algorithms: the
perspective of China's Anti-Monopoly Law 142
Wei Han, Yajie Gao and Ai Deng
7 Algorithmic collusion and the Japanese antimonopoly law 165
Steven Van Uytsel and Yoshiteru Uemura
8 Price-monitoring algorithms and resale price maintenance:
an analysis of recent cases in Europe 189
Yoshiteru Uemura
9 Pricing in online grocery markets: challenges in
monitoring competition 203
Cassey Lee and Gloria Lin
10 Algorithms unravelled: observations on the audit of Uber
and Amazon marketplace algorithms 237
Steven Van Uytsel
Index 260
