Harrington (2021) considers whether—based on economic theory—an agreement between competitors to exchange list price information can be presumed to harm competition. In support of the affirmative, he provides a novel narrative and supporting theoretical analysis based on the premise that,...

This article reviews and critically assesses the ‘cost coordination’ theory of harm developed in a recent eponymous article, Harrington (2022), and its application to the EU trucks case. We conclude that, while the cost coordination theory is a valuable and interesting contribution to the...