Excessive Pricing and Competition Law Enforcement

Yannis S. Katsoulacos is a professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business, Dept. of Economic Science (1994-) and chairman of the Department (2011-) in Greece and has been University Vice-Rector (2007-2011) and Post-graduate Studies Director for Applied Economics and Finance (2000-). He received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics. He specializes and has published widely in competition and regulation economics and policy, industrial organisation, environmental policy and the economics of technological change. He was a research fellow at the London Centre of Economic Policy Research (CEPR, 1992-2001) and has published over 85 articles (over 30 in international, including leading, refereed journals) and 9 books on industrial organisation, competition policy, the economics of technical change and the New Economy. Since 2006, he has organized the CRESSE Annual International Summer School and Conference in Competition and Regulationin Greece. Frédéric Jenny is a Professor of Economics at ESSEC Business School in Paris, France. He has been chairman of the OECD Competition Committee since 1994, and co-director of the European Center for Law and Economics of ESSEC since 2008. He was previously non-executive director of the Office of Fair Trading in the United Kingdom (2007-2014), a judge on the French Supreme Court (Cour de cassation, Economic Commercial and Financial Chamber) from 2004 to 2012, vice-chair of the French Competition Authority (1993-2004) and president of the WTO Working Group on Trade and Competition (1997-2004). He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University (1975), a Doctorate in economics from the University of Paris (1977) and an MBA from ESSEC Business School (1966).

• Introduction (Frederic Jenny and Yannis Katsoulacos).- Abuse of Dominance by Firms Charging Excessive or Unfair Prices: An Assessment (Frederic Jenny).- Another Look at the Economics of the UK CMA’s Phenytoin Case (John Davies and Jorge Padilla).- A Coherent Approach to the Antitrust Prohibition of Excessive Pricing by Dominant Firms (David Gilo).- Antitrust Enforcement of the Prohibition of Excessive Prices: The Israeli Experience (Yossi Spiegel).- Working Out the Standards for Excessive Pricing in South Africa (Liberty Mncube and Mfundo Ngobese).- The Brazilian Experience with Excessive Pricing Cases: Hello, Goodbye (E. P. Ribeiro and C. Mattos).-Enforcement against Excessive Pricing in the Russian Federation (Svetlana Avdasheva and Dina Korneeva).- Anti-Monopoly Cases on Unfair Pricing in China (Xiao Fu and Heng Ju).- Excessiveness of Prices as an Abuse of Dominant Position: The Case of India (Augustine Peter and Neha Singh).-