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Developing Competition Law for Collusion by Autonomous Price-Setting Agents

 |  September 19, 2017

Posted by Social Science Research Network

Developing Competition Law for Collusion by Autonomous Price-Setting Agents

By Joseph E. Harrington Jr (University of Pennsylvania)

Abstract:     After arguing that collusion by software programs which choose pricing rules without any human intervention is not in violation of section 1 of the Sherman Act, the paper offers a path towards making collusion by autonomous agents unlawful.

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