id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-031090-dd8z7stt Giosa, Penelope Exploitative Pricing in the Time of Coronavirus—The Response of EU Competition Law and the Prospect of Price Regulation 2020-07-15 .txt text/plain 5813 279 53 It discusses the practical and conceptual difficulties that excessive pricing cases involve, especially under the current urgent circumstances that coronavirus has caused, and it assesses the remedies that the NCAs and the European Commission can impose in order to deal with price gouging. Section II discusses Article 102 (a) TFEU, the provision of the EU competition law that the NCAs and the 10 European Commission could enforce in order to ensure that consumers are not paying inflated prices during the coronavirus crisis. 30 This means that the NCAs could possibly follow the same line of reasoning as the European Commission in the aforementioned decision and try to establish "transitory market power", in order to establish that the sellers of goods in high demand due to the coronavirus outbreak hold a dominant position in the relevant markets. ./cache/cord-031090-dd8z7stt.txt ./txt/cord-031090-dd8z7stt.txt