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Roger D. Blair

Roger D. Blair is Professor of Economics and Affiliate Faculty at the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida, where he works on antitrust economics and law and economics. He is a co-author of the Antitrust Law treatise with Phillip Areeda and Herbert Hovenkamp, has written numerous books on antitrust and industrial organization, and his scholarship has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Michigan State University.
Antitrust and Competition

Two Questions Determine Whether a Pricing Algorithm Becomes Evidence of Price Fixing

Roger D. Blair
Two recent court rulings on casino-hotels using a shared software to fix prices reveal the importance of information exchanges as a super plus factor: an indicator of illegal conspiracy to limit trade. Roger D. Blair and Javier D. Donna discuss how these court cases and other recent lawsuits elucidate the role of the information exchange and the two vectors that determine its strength as a plus factor: data sensitivity and a give-to-get understanding among firms that if they shared their data, competitors would do the same.

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