FTC attorney opposes price-cost test for loyalty discounts

Nihal Krishan

23 May 2017

Federal Trade Commission

Price-cost tests are neither easily administered nor closely tied to the economic rationale for how loyalty discounts can harm competition, an attorney advisor in the Federal Trade Commission’s policy shop said yesterday.

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