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Article: Toward an economic approach to agency agreements
Title | Toward an economic approach to agency agreements |
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Issue Date | 2013 |
Citation | Journal of Competition Law and Economics, 2013, v. 9, n. 3, p. 553-591 How to Cite? |
Abstract | It is a long-standing antitrust principle that agency relationships are exempt from price-fixing violations. But the agency relationship must be "genuine." To discern genuine agency agreements, the prevailing approach adopted in both the United States and the European Union focuses on whether the agent has incurred any specific risk or cost in relation to the distribution of the manufacturer's goods. Yet this approach has tended to obscure the economic nature of agency relationships. The real question to ask is not whether the agent has incurred any specific cost or risk, but instead whether, in a given case, an agency model, rather than a distribution model, actually constitutes a more efficient form for organizing distribution functions between the contracting parties. In fact, over a quarter of a century ago, Judge Richard Posner proposed a business justification approach for analyzing agency agreements in Morrison v. Murray Biscuit. Building on Morrison, and on the economic literature of property rights and agency problems, this article explores the fundamental question of how parties choose to enter into an optimal contractual form, and, moreover, proposes an economic approach to discern genuine agency agreements. It also calls for revision of the current EU Vertical Guidelines on agency agreements, which are so stringent that they deter businesses unnecessarily from entering into agency arrangements. © The Author (2013). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/242593 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 1.3 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.534 |
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dc.contributor.author | Zhang, Angela Huyue | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-10T10:51:04Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-08-10T10:51:04Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Competition Law and Economics, 2013, v. 9, n. 3, p. 553-591 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1744-6414 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/242593 | - |
dc.description.abstract | It is a long-standing antitrust principle that agency relationships are exempt from price-fixing violations. But the agency relationship must be "genuine." To discern genuine agency agreements, the prevailing approach adopted in both the United States and the European Union focuses on whether the agent has incurred any specific risk or cost in relation to the distribution of the manufacturer's goods. Yet this approach has tended to obscure the economic nature of agency relationships. The real question to ask is not whether the agent has incurred any specific cost or risk, but instead whether, in a given case, an agency model, rather than a distribution model, actually constitutes a more efficient form for organizing distribution functions between the contracting parties. In fact, over a quarter of a century ago, Judge Richard Posner proposed a business justification approach for analyzing agency agreements in Morrison v. Murray Biscuit. Building on Morrison, and on the economic literature of property rights and agency problems, this article explores the fundamental question of how parties choose to enter into an optimal contractual form, and, moreover, proposes an economic approach to discern genuine agency agreements. It also calls for revision of the current EU Vertical Guidelines on agency agreements, which are so stringent that they deter businesses unnecessarily from entering into agency arrangements. © The Author (2013). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Competition Law and Economics | - |
dc.title | Toward an economic approach to agency agreements | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/joclec/nht018 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84885098817 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 9 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 3 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 553 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 591 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1744-6422 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000325502300003 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1744-6414 | - |