Bid rigging and price fixing are examples of antitrust conspiracies. To evaluate conduct, one investigates whether market structure and profit-maximizing incentives provide non-collusive explanations for the observed price movements. Damages are normally computed by the difference between actual prices and the prices that would have prevailed, but-for the alleged conspiracy. But-for prices can be econometrically estimated with before-during-after analysis, or other benchmarks.
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