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Price Gouging Under Brazilian Competition Law: Better Left Dormant?

BY | September 22, 2020

Price gouging is a hot topic in the antitrust community as a result of COVID-19, and Brazil is no exception. In this article, we ask whether it is still worth…

Price gouging is a hot topic in the antitrust community as a result of COVID-19, and Brazil is no exception. In this article, we ask whether it is still worth having CADE open price gouging investigations, or should CADE adopt a policy of no longer pursuing price gouging claims. We argue that CADE should acknowledge the limited relevance of price gouging as a standalone theory of harm worth pursuing, which is largely the policy being adopted in the period after the enactment of Brazil’s cu

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