The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) withdrew the agency’s lawsuit against Pepsi Cola for allegedly violating the Robinson-Patman Act (RPA). The withdrawal was supported by all three members of the ...

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The rumors of the death of price discrimination enforcement may have been greatly exaggerated. The Robinson-Patman Act (“RPA”) (15 U.S.C. §13), enacted in 1936, prohibits price discrimination by ...

Senior and student discounts don’t tend to be controversial, but mortgage concessions that favor males over females, “pink taxes” on women’s personal care items and dating apps that charge older users ...

In the waning days of Lina Khan’s tenure as head of the Federal Trade Commission, the agency sued PepsiCo—the conglomerate behind brands like Pepsi, Gatorade, Doritos, and Quaker—for violating a New ...

This article discusses the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and recent enforcement actions that have revived "a depression-era prohibition on price discrimination that had since fallen out of favor with ...

On December 12, 2024, following a nearly two-year-long investigation, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) initiated its first litigation under the Robinson-Patman Act (RPA)[1] in more than two decades.

Price discrimination is facing growing consumer and regulatory backlash due to the emergence of “surveillance pricing,” which uses personal data to set individualized prices. Machine learning ...

Dirk Bergemann, Yale University – Cowles Foundation – Department of Economics, Benjamin A. Brooks, Princeton University – Department of Economics and Stephen Morris, Princeton University – Department ...