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Antitrust Litigation in the Protein Markets 蛋白质市场中的反垄断诉讼
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-01-21 DOI: 10.1177/0003603x221149325
Brianna L. Alderman, R. Blair
Allegations of collusion are prevalent in many of the major protein markets including beef, chicken, eggs, pork, salmon, tuna, and turkey. The sources of collusion, however, are different across markets. For some markets, like chicken and pork, the collusion was allegedly facilitated through information exchanges using Agri Stats, a data collection and sharing service. In other markets, the collusion was facilitated among parties within the market. There are allegations of collusion in the input markets for some proteins, the output markets for others, and some like chicken and beef have allegations in both. While many of these cases are ongoing, there have been a few cases where settlements have been reached or the courts have decided on a verdict. This introduction provides a snapshot of the many articles in our symposium that specialize on one protein market or another. We provide a brief review of each case, as well as emphasize the importance of this research given how substantial the protein markets are in the U.S.
在包括牛肉、鸡肉、鸡蛋、猪肉、三文鱼、金枪鱼和火鸡在内的许多主要蛋白质市场,共谋指控普遍存在。然而,不同市场的串通来源不同。对于一些市场,如鸡肉和猪肉,据称通过使用数据收集和共享服务Agri Stats进行信息交流,为共谋提供了便利。在其他市场,市场内各方之间的勾结得到了便利。一些蛋白质的输入市场和其他蛋白质的输出市场都存在勾结的指控,而鸡肉和牛肉等蛋白质的输入和输出市场都有指控。虽然其中许多案件仍在审理中,但也有少数案件达成了和解或法院作出了裁决。这篇简介简要介绍了我们研讨会上专门讨论一个或另一个蛋白质市场的许多文章。我们对每一个案例进行了简要回顾,并强调了这项研究的重要性,因为美国的蛋白质市场规模很大。
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Ruffled Feathers: The Chicken Cartel in the United States 皱巴巴的羽毛:美国的鸡肉卡特尔
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-01-21 DOI: 10.1177/0003603X221149333
Dong Li, Dennis L. Weisman
Allegations of price-fixing by U.S. chicken suppliers in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act date back more than a half-century. The methods to facilitate this collusion have evolved over time from conference calls arranged by the National Broiler Marketing Association to more sophisticated methods of information sharing. Amid the highest rate of inflation in nearly forty years and persistent supply-chain bottlenecks as the country emerges from the pandemic, the chicken industry has been singled out by government officials for monopolistic pricing behavior. We examine the mechanism through which the “chicken cartel” was formed and sustained and its harmful effects on consumers. The analysis indicates that as early as 2008 a plan was hatched by U.S. chicken suppliers to collude in fixing the price of chicken. According to one complaint, this collusion, in concert with increased market concentration, raised chicken prices by approximately 50 percent. The associated consumer surplus losses are estimated at $8 to $10 billion annually with cumulative losses over the duration of the cartel ranging upward of $100 billion. Numerous indictments have been handed down and settlements reached, both civil and criminal.
美国鸡肉供应商违反《谢尔曼法案》第1条操纵价格的指控可以追溯到半个多世纪前。随着时间的推移,促进这种勾结的方法已经从国家肉鸡营销协会安排的电话会议演变为更复杂的信息共享方法。在近四十年来最高的通货膨胀率和随着国家摆脱疫情而持续存在的供应链瓶颈中,鸡肉行业因垄断定价行为而被政府官员点名。我们研究了“鸡肉卡特尔”形成和维持的机制及其对消费者的有害影响。分析表明,早在2008年,美国鸡肉供应商就策划了一项共谋鸡肉价格的计划。根据一份投诉,这种勾结,加上市场集中度的提高,使鸡肉价格上涨了约50%。相关的消费者盈余损失估计每年为80亿至100亿美元,卡特尔期间的累计损失高达1000亿美元。已经提出了许多起诉,并达成了民事和刑事和解。
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Price-Fixing Allegations in the Canned Tuna Industry: A Look at the Data 金枪鱼罐头行业的价格操纵指控:数据分析
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-01-19 DOI: 10.1177/0003603X221150372
Minhae Kim, Nathan H. Miller, Ryan Mansley, M. Remer, Matthew C. Weinberg
In December 2014, Thai Union, the parent company of Chicken of the Sea canned tuna announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire Bumble Bee tuna from Lion Capital. In the course of standard merger review, the Department of Justice subpoenaed the merging parties as well as the parent company of StarKist to investigate possible collusion among the major producers of canned tuna. This led to several class action lawsuits and a criminal conviction for price fixing. This paper describes how these firms were alleged to have colluded and uses retail scanner data to document how prices and promotional activity changed while the cartel was in operation. Avenues for future research are discussed.
2014年12月,海之鸡罐头金枪鱼的母公司Thai Union宣布,已与Lion Capital达成收购Bumble Bee金枪鱼的协议。在标准的合并审查过程中,司法部传唤了合并各方以及StarKist的母公司,调查主要金枪鱼罐头生产商之间可能存在的勾结。这导致了几起集体诉讼和一起操纵价格的刑事定罪。本文描述了这些公司是如何被指控串通的,并使用零售扫描仪数据来记录卡特尔运作时价格和促销活动的变化。讨论了今后的研究方向。
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Information Sharing and Collusion: General Principles and the Agri Stats Experience 信息共享与共谋:一般原则与农业统计经验
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-01-12 DOI: 10.1177/0003603X221149326
D. Sappington, Douglas C. Turner
We review some central conclusions from the economics literature regarding the likely impact of information sharing by industry suppliers on consumer welfare. We also review the specific information sharing activities undertaken by Agri Stats. We conclude that although some elements of Agri Stats’ activities may have had the potential to enhance consumer welfare, several elements of the activities reflect features of information sharing that the common wisdom suggests are relatively likely to harm consumers.
我们回顾了经济学文献中关于行业供应商信息共享对消费者福利可能产生的影响的一些核心结论。我们还审查了农业统计局开展的具体信息共享活动。我们得出的结论是,尽管农业统计局活动中的一些元素可能具有提高消费者福利的潜力,但这些活动中的几个元素反映了信息共享的特征,人们普遍认为这些特征相对可能会伤害消费者。
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The Consumers’ Beef about Beef Prices 消费者对牛肉价格的担忧
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-01-12 DOI: 10.1177/0003603X221149366
R. Blair
There have been allegations that the dominant meatpackers have conspired to raise beef prices in violation of §1 of the Sherman Act. In this article, I examine the market structure and find it to be conducive to collusion, which may be tacit or overt. The article analyzes the allegations of collusion in a partial conspiracy model. The empirical evidence appears to be consistent with the implications of the theory. The article also considers evidentiary problems for the plaintiffs as well as the pursuit of private damages and public sanctions.
有指控称,占主导地位的肉类包装商密谋提高牛肉价格,违反了《谢尔曼法案》第1条。在这篇文章中,我考察了市场结构,发现它有利于共谋,共谋可能是隐性的,也可能是显性的。文章采用部分阴谋模型分析了共谋指控。经验证据似乎与该理论的含义一致。该条还考虑了原告的证据问题以及寻求私人损害赔偿和公共制裁的问题。
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The Third Circuit’s Scrambling of Precedent in Processed Eggs 第三巡回法庭对加工鸡蛋先例的争夺
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-01-11 DOI: 10.1177/0003603X221149364
P. Carstensen
In 2020, the Third Circuit upheld a judge’s decision that the rule of reason applied to a conspiracy among egg producers to limit production of eggs by agreeing on how they engaged in production and the disposition of some eggs. A jury had found that the agreement existed and that its intent was to restrain production, but based on the instructions from the court, it also found that these restraints were “reasonable.” On its face, this decision upends more than a century of case law holding that naked restraints of competition among competitors are illegal per se. One of the restraints involved an agreement to increase the size of the cages used for the hens laying eggs. The courts appear to have concluded that an agreement among competitors to increase cage size could be a lawful cartelistic conspiracy, despite the jury finding that the intent was to restrict production. The jury instructions themselves conflated the issues of whether there was a conspiracy to restrain the production of eggs and the issue of whether the conspiracy had in fact caused any reduction in production. Hence, although the Court of Appeals decision provides defendants a basis to claim that any justification for collusion should be considered, the specifics of the case suggest that the jury may have found that the conspiracy was ineffective and so caused no harm. Such a conclusion would be consistent with existing law.
2020年,第三巡回法院维持了一名法官的裁决,即理性规则适用于鸡蛋生产商之间的阴谋,即通过商定他们如何参与生产和处理一些鸡蛋来限制鸡蛋的生产。陪审团认定该协议存在,其目的是限制生产,但根据法院的指示,陪审团还认定这些限制是“合理的”。从表面上看,这一裁决颠覆了一个多世纪以来的判例法,即赤裸裸地限制竞争对手之间的竞争本身就是非法的。其中一项限制措施涉及增加母鸡下蛋用笼子的尺寸。法院似乎已经得出结论,竞争对手之间达成的增加笼子大小的协议可能是合法的卡特尔阴谋,尽管陪审团认定其意图是限制生产。陪审团的指示本身将是否存在阴谋限制鸡蛋生产的问题与阴谋是否确实导致产量下降的问题混为一谈。因此,尽管上诉法院的裁决为被告提供了一个基础,声称应该考虑共谋的任何理由,但案件的具体情况表明,陪审团可能已经认定共谋无效,因此没有造成伤害。这样的结论将符合现行法律。
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Competition Enforcement in Digital Markets in China 中国数字市场的竞争执法
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-10-05 DOI: 10.1177/0003603X221126157
Ken Dai, J. Deng
Compared with the size of China’s digital market, competition enforcement in China in this area is relatively underexplored. It had been almost an entirely blank space until the end of 2020. This article summarizes the enforcement actions that have been taken to date, from few distant cases in which former authorities tentatively approached competition issues in this area, to more recent landmark cases in which more sophisticated analysis is provided and hefty fines are imposed. This article traces the enforcement history, thereby explaining the reasons of some China-featured situations, for example, a large amount of existing gun-jumping cases. It also studies some comparable enforcement decisions with a common issue, for example, dominance abuse in the digital market and a controversial topic in China—“choose one from two.” Enforcement trends are also discussed to predict future development in this regard.
与中国数字市场的规模相比,中国在这一领域的竞争执法相对不足。直到2020年底,这里几乎是一片空白。这篇文章总结了迄今为止采取的执法行动,从少数几个遥远的案件中,前当局试探性地处理了这一领域的竞争问题,到最近的里程碑式案件中,提供了更复杂的分析并处以巨额罚款。本文追溯了执法的历史,从而解释了一些中国特色情况的原因,例如大量存在的跳枪案件。它还研究了一些具有可比性的执法决定,这些决定涉及一个共同的问题,例如数字市场中的支配地位滥用和中国有争议的话题——“二选一”。还讨论了执法趋势,以预测这方面的未来发展。
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Privacy and Competition: Discord or Harmony? 隐私与竞争:不和谐还是和谐?
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-09-29 DOI: 10.1177/0003603X221126140
M. Ohlhausen, Ben Rossen
Privacy and competition law pursue different goals that do not always align, but they can be harmonized under the right approach. Recent proposals in Congress, however, put privacy and competition values in direct conflict, likely at the expense of consumer privacy. Rather than diminishing consumer privacy and security through competition legislation, Congress should enact a comprehensive consumer privacy law that protects consumers while leveling the playing field for all competitors. This article addresses recent calls to regulate consumer privacy and the commercial use of data through competition law. First, we address the changing landscape of consumer privacy and calls for additional regulation. We then discuss recent proposals to use competition law to address issues stemming from widespread data collection and aggregation. Finally, we describe the collision course of antitrust and privacy in recent legislative proposals and offer an alternative path forward.
隐私法和竞争法追求的目标并不总是一致的,但它们可以在正确的方法下协调一致。然而,国会最近的提案将隐私和竞争价值观直接冲突,很可能以牺牲消费者隐私为代价。国会不应该通过竞争立法来削弱消费者的隐私和安全,而应该制定一项全面的消费者隐私法,保护消费者,同时为所有竞争对手创造公平的竞争环境。本文阐述了最近通过竞争法规范消费者隐私和数据商业使用的呼吁。首先,我们应对消费者隐私不断变化的局面,并呼吁加强监管。然后,我们讨论了最近提出的利用竞争法解决广泛数据收集和汇总问题的建议。最后,我们描述了最近立法提案中反垄断和隐私权的冲突过程,并提供了一条替代的前进道路。
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China’s Antimonopoly Law Enforcement in the Digital Economy 数字经济背景下的中国反垄断法执法
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-09-28 DOI: 10.1177/0003603X221126141
Xiaoye Wang, Yajie Gao
The year 2021 was the first remarkable year of Chinese anti-monopoly law enforcement in the digital economy. Against the macro backdrop of strengthening anti-monopoly and preventing the disorderly expansion of capital, China has closed high-profile cases and enacted relevant guiding documents, implying that competition in the digital economy is undergoing a revolution in China. However, with the strengthening anti-monopoly enforcement in the digital economy, China has also been confronted with new challenges. For example, how to make sure that the interconnectivity between platforms and data interoperability do not interfere with data security, personal privacy, and consumers’ legitimate rights and interests? How to balance the curbing of almost unconstrained digital ecosystems and the enhancement of economic efficiency? With the emergence of digital giants, profound changes are taking place in the competitive relationships between various market participants, while the advantages and disadvantages of capital growth have become increasingly prominent. We propose competition authorities worldwide to learn from and cooperate with each other to solve monopolistic problems in the digital economy, considering it is a global matter.
2021年是中国在数字经济领域反垄断执法的第一个显著年份。在加强反垄断和防止资本无序扩张的宏观背景下,中国关闭了备受关注的案件,并制定了相关指导性文件,这意味着数字经济的竞争正在中国发生一场革命。然而,随着数字经济领域反垄断执法力度的加强,中国也面临着新的挑战。例如,如何确保平台之间的互联互通和数据互操作性不会干扰数据安全、个人隐私和消费者的合法权益?如何在遏制几乎不受约束的数字生态系统和提高经济效率之间取得平衡?随着数字巨头的出现,各种市场参与者之间的竞争关系正在发生深刻变化,而资本增长的优势和劣势也日益凸显。我们建议世界各地的竞争主管部门相互学习和合作,以解决数字经济中的垄断问题,因为这是一个全球性的问题。
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Toward a Coherent Approach to Market Power in the Digital Sector: Complexity, Growth through Acquisition, and Remedies 迈向数字行业市场力量的连贯方法:复杂性、通过收购实现增长和补救措施
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-09-28 DOI: 10.1177/0003603X221126139
Diana L. Moss
The Digital Business Ecosystem (DBE) model far surpasses other models and structures in its scope, scale, and complexity. DBEs feature unique economic, technological, business, and growth characteristics that increase their opacity to consumers, competition enforcers, and lawmakers. These include a range of market failures, the role of cloud computing in realizing the DBE value proposition, and growth through acquisition.The United States is making slow progress in addressing competition concerns in the digital sector. Legislative initiatives remain focused on the largest players, and there is little political appetite for a dedicated sector regulator to develop a system of non-discrimination “access” regulation. This article discusses the implications of the widening gap between the complexity and growth of DBEs, and policy responses to the market power problems they raise. The analysis recommends a more coherent approach centered on identifying policy tools—including antitrust, regulation, and privacy law—that are best suited to addressing the unique features of DBEs and that work in a complementary way.
数字商业生态系统(DBE)模型在范围、规模和复杂性方面远远超过了其他模型和结构。弱势商业企业具有独特的经济、技术、商业和增长特征,这增加了其对消费者、竞争执法者和立法者的不透明性。其中包括一系列市场失败、云计算在实现DBE价值主张中的作用,以及通过收购实现增长。美国在解决数字行业的竞争问题方面进展缓慢。立法举措仍然集中在最大的参与者身上,政治上几乎没有意愿设立一个专门的部门监管机构来制定一个不歧视的“准入”监管体系。本文讨论了DBE的复杂性和增长之间差距不断扩大的影响,以及对它们提出的市场力量问题的政策回应。该分析建议采取一种更连贯的方法,重点是确定最适合解决弱势商业企业独特特征并以互补方式发挥作用的政策工具,包括反垄断、监管和隐私法。
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