English Dictionary

conscious parallelism

名詞

アメリカ英語 不可算名詞

(law, US, antitrust law) Price fixing that occurs without direct communication between the participants, but where the participants instead intentionally follow one another in raising prices to maximize profits at the expense of competitive pricing.

日本語の意味

参加者間で直接的な連絡がないままに、各企業が意図的に互いの動きを追随して価格を引き上げ、競争を損ないつつ利益を最大化する形の価格固定行為

The court found evidence of conscious parallelism when rival retailers repeatedly matched each other's price increases without any proof of direct collusion.

裁判所は、競合する小売業者が直接的な共謀の証拠なしに互いの値上げを繰り返し合わせていたことを、意識的平行行為の証拠として認定した。

意味（1）

(law, US, antitrust law) Price fixing that occurs without direct communication between the participants, but where the participants instead intentionally follow one another in raising prices to maximize profits at the expense of competitive pricing.