Finding the antitrust ‘codfish head’ how government subsidies can change the investigations of predatory pricing?

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Published: Dec 30, 2023
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predatory prices, Brazil, international landscape, governmental subsidies, competition analysis

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Amanda Athayde
Luis Henrique Perroni Fernandes

Abstract

The records show only one single case, in 1987, in which Brazilian antitrust authorities condemned predatory pricing. Under Law
12,529/2011, CADE has never convicted companies nor individuals in the several investigations undertaken. There is a mystic around predatory pricing in Brazil, being humorous called by “codfish head” of the antitrust. Is this the destiny of predatory pricing in Brazil? This paper challenges the many views in the sense that the accusations of predatory in Brazil to CADE are doomed to failure by presenting new developments in the international outlook, especially in Europe, concerning the concession of government subsidies. It is an innovative angle, we hope fresher, regarding this topic that aims at inspiring changes in the way that predatory pricing is currently persecuted in Brazil.

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Athayde, A., & Fernandes, L. H. P. (2023). Finding the antitrust ‘codfish head’: how government subsidies can change the investigations of predatory pricing?. Revista Do IBRAC, 2(2), 179–198. Retrieved from https://revista.ibrac.org.br/index.php/revista/article/view/205
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No. 2 (2023)
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Artigos para Revista do IBRAC
Author Biographies

Amanda Athayde

Professora doutora adjunta na UnB de Direito Empresarial, concorrência, comércio internacional e compliance, consultora no Pinheiro Neto, doutora em Direito Comercial pela USP, bacharel em Direito pela UFMG e em administração de empresas com habilitação em comércio exterior pela UNA, ex-aluna da Université Paris I — Panthéon Sorbonne, autora de livros, organizadora de livros e autora de diversos artigos acadêmicos e de capítulos de livros na área de Direito Empresarial, Direito da Concorrência, comércio internacional, compliance, acordos de leniência, anticorrupção, defesa comercial e interesse público. Lattes:

Luis Henrique Perroni Fernandes

Bacharel em Direito pela PUC-SP, mestre em Direito pela University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School e advogado sênior de Pinheiro Neto Advogados, com atuação nas áreas de Direito Econômico, Direito da Concorrência, Defesa Comercial e Compliance.

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