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Titel:Algorithmic Tacit Collusion
An Analysis under European Competition Law
Person: Doerr, Adrian
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Hauptverfasser: Doerr, Adrian (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Tübingen Mohr Siebeck 2025
Ausgabe:1. Aufl.
Schriftenreihe:Beiträge zum Kartellrecht
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Medienzugang:https://doi.org/10.1628/978-3-16-164040-7
Zusammenfassung:Tacit collusion through pricing algorithms is feasible and increasingly likely - and its effects may be as harmful as those of anticompetitive agreements. By virtue of a new approach set out in this study, Adrian Doerr shows how the law can and should respond within the existing legal framework.
Stillschweigende Absprachen durch Preisalgorithmen sind möglich und zunehmend wahrscheinlich, können jedoch in ihren Auswirkungen kartellrechtswidrigen Absprachen ähneln. Das Kartellrecht sollte daher dieser Entwicklung innerhalb des bestehenden Rechtsrahmens begegnen.
Tacit collusion is a well-studied phenomenon accepted in competition law as an anomaly that only occurs under specific conditions. However, with the rise of artificial intelligence, it is more likely that pricing algorithms could develop the ability to collude in more instances and without human interference. While neither tacit collusion nor its algorithmically induced version constitutes a concerted practice, algorithmic tacit collusion is sufficiently different from a technical, economic, and policy perspective to warrant alternative legal treatment. Algorithmically induced tacit collusion in fact resembles a cartel in its effects and should, in principle, also be treated as such. In his comprehensive study, Adrian Doerr develops a new approach within the existing regulatory framework to keep algorithmic tacit collusion in check.
Beschreibung:PublicationDate: 20250630
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (XXI, 368 Seiten)
ISBN:9783161640407