Predatory pricing strategies in the European union: A case for legal reform.

... PREDATORY PRICING STRATEGIES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: A CASE FOR LEGAL REFORM Until now, in-depth analyses concerning predatory pricing have, to a large extent, been scarce in European Union Competition Law, and relevant questions been rarely dealt with by the competent authorities and courts in the Union; criticism produced by European academics or practitioners on the subject has also been rather infrequent. [FN1] By contrast, on the other side of the Atlantic, academic activity, mainly initiated after 1975, the year of publication of a seminal scholarly article attempting to delineate an appropriate standard to cope with this issue, [FN2] has not only been rich, but has also furnished American judges with the appropriate legal and economic basis on which they grounded their numerous holdings. Given this lack of experience in the E.U., would it be wise to assume that a potential incorporation in its Competition Law system of the American

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