Resale Price Maintenance Regulated By Antitrust Law

Limited resale price behavior has been a key topic in the field of competition law,and now has been more and more attention in our current antitrust enforcement, theemergence of a group with limited resale price of the relevant antitrust enforcementcases. For more immature market economy need to improve the regulation of thelegal system on the market price associated with the regulation. This paper discussesfour aspects of antitrust law limited the resale price regulation issue.The first part is to introduce the concept of limiting the resale price and the associatedlegal scholars discuss the background, mainly academics in various countries forlimited resale price of different views, as well as in academia limited resale prices forsome typical classification.The second·part defines the resale price behavior from the effects of marketcompetition arising go forth, respectively, from both positive and negative aspectsdescribed in the antitrust field, limited the resale price for the impact of competitionin the market, focusing on limited resale price participants include manufacturers anddistributors. Including some typical economic phenomena, such as free-riding andmore.The third part is mainly limited to the United States and Europe and the resale priceof the underlying legal system are discussed in detail, from the perspective ofregulations and jurisprudence, in chronological order according to the vertical for amore in-depth discussion, focusing on the salient features of foreign-related legalissues and historical development and changes.The fourth part is a combination of legislative and legal status of institutional problems, the resale price for the limited antitrust regulations relevant laws andregulations were analyzed, made some adjustments range from personal liability andlegal systems perspective the opinions and views.