https://doi.org/10.25198/2077-7175-2021-2-34
ANTITRUST REGULATION OF PRICE SHIFTS: PROBLEMS, PARADOXES AND PROSPECTS
A. V. Kovalev
Domkiny & Partners Law Office, Moscow, Russia
e-mail: kovalev_alexandr@list.ru
L. N. Orlova
Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
e-mail: Lnorlova@fa.ru
Abstract.The article is devoted to the problems of pricing processes in the economic security system. Pricing processes are one of the central and main processes in the economic. At the same time prices as a flexible tools are very powerful management lever of economic. Pricing processes are certain algorithms for generating prices, when various environmental factors are inconsistent and irregular. The article describes some problems of pricing processes in the economy, explores the practice of price manipulation by business entities. The authors analyze some antitrust regulation tools, content and conditions of their application and also define the disadvantages of these tools. The authors consider the situation, when exerting regulatory influence on pricing processes is on free prices market.
The purpose of the issue is to reveal the features of the antitrust regulation tools in the management of pricing processes, to determine the basic principles of creating and functioning of a unified system for monitoring pricing processes.
General scientific and special methods such as the system analysis method, the retrospective analysis method, and analytical methods of data research were chosen as scientific tools for conducting this study. The empirical materials of the study are presented by open data and analytical reports of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia, decisions and definitions of the Supreme and Arbitration Courts of the Russian Federation, official data of state authorities.
The authors make recommendations on how to accept some antitrust regulatory tools. They also determine the additional priority of the state’s economic security strategy in managing pricing processes and develop the objectives of creating a unified system for monitoring pricing processes.
Key words: prices, price manipulation, antitrust regulation, risk, uncertainty, economic security, pricing process monitoring system, entrepreneurship.
Cite as: Kovalev, A. V. Orlova, L. N., (2021) [Antitrust regulation of price shifts: problems, paradox¬es and prospects]. Intellekt. Innovatsii. Investitsii [Intellect. Innovations. Investments]. Vol. 2, рр. 34–43. DOI: 10.25198/2077-7175-2021-2-34.
