Tim Wu

Parallel Exclusion

122 Yale L.J. 1182 (2013). Scholars and courts have long debated whether and when “parallel pricing”—adoption of the same price by every firm in a market—should be considered a violation of antitrust law. But there has been a comparative neglect of the importance of “parallel exclusion”—conduct, engaged in by multiple firms, that blocks or slows would-be market entrants. Parallel exclusion...