Umbrella pricing

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Umbrella Pricing is from the price screen effect or umbrella effect resulting pricing effect that competitors tend to look at the prices of the dominant undertaking to adapt.

In European antitrust law , those involved in cartels are liable to third parties for damage caused by non- cartel- based prices from non- cartel participants .

Individual evidence

  1. Deselaers in: Grabitz / Hilf / Nettesheim, The Law of the European Union, 53rd Supplementary Delivery 2014, TFEU Art. 102 Abuse of a dominant position Rn. 401
  2. ECJ (Fifth Chamber), judgment of June 5, 2014 - C-557/12 (Kone AG et al / ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG) ; see. Michael Stöber : "Liability for damages for umbrella price effects in the event of violations of German or European antitrust law". In: EuZW 2014, pp. 257–262.