Price-Fixing Allegations in the Canned Tuna Industry: A Look at the Data

Autor:	Minhae Kim, Ryan Mansley, Nathan Miller, Marc Remer, Matthew Weinberg
Rok vydání:	2023
Předmět:	History Economics and Econometrics Polymers and Plastics Business and International Management Law Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Zdroj:	The Antitrust Bulletin. 68:154-163
ISSN:	1930-7969 0003-603X
Popis:	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.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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