Algorithms, Collusion and Competition Law

Edited by Steven Van Uytsel, Professor of International Business Law, Faculty of Law, Kyushu University, Japan, Salil K. Mehra, James E. Beasley Professor of Law, Beasley School of Law, Temple University, US and Yoshiteru Uemura, Professor of Competition Law, Faculty of Economics, Hannan University, Japan

• Contents:Preface xSalil K. MehraAcknowledgements xii1 The algorithmic collusion debate: a focus on(autonomous) tacit collusion 1Steven Van Uytsel2 Algorithms and the limits of antitrust 39Thomas Weck3 Artificially intelligent collusion caught under EU competition law 48Jan Blockx4 Can the reformed Australian competition law stopalgorithmic collusion? 67Baskaran Balasingham5 Tackling algorithmic collusion: the scope of the IndianCompetition Act 92Nikita Koradia, Kiran Manokaran and Zara Saeed6 Challenges brought by and in response to algorithms: theperspective of China’s Anti-Monopoly Law 142Wei Han, Yajie Gao and Ai Deng7 Algorithmic collusion and the Japanese antimonopoly law 165Steven Van Uytsel and Yoshiteru Uemura8 Price-monitoring algorithms and resale price maintenance:an analysis of recent cases in Europe 189Yoshiteru Uemura9 Pricing in online grocery markets: challenges inmonitoring competition 203Cassey Lee and Gloria Lin10 Algorithms unravelled: observations on the audit of Uberand Amazon marketplace algorithms 237Steven Van UytselIndex 260

‘This book is essential reading for those with an interest in algorithmic collusion, or competition and technology more generally. I would also recommend it to those who have limited knowledge of this area of competition scholarship and feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of existing literature available. This collection is an excellent starting point, as the early chapters are written in a very clear and accessible style. They do an excellent job of explaining the main issues and critically summarising and discussing the previous literature, setting the scene for the original contributions that follow.’