This study identifies the determinants of coupon values at the brand level within the context of a complex marketing program. A two-equation, fixed-effects, panel-data model accounts for the bidirectional causality between brand prices and discount levels. The empirical model is fitted with data...

The consensus among experienced antitrust lawyers and from abstruse economic studies is that the great majority of cartels operate clandestinely their entire lives. John Connor (Purdue Univ.)

The consensus among experienced antitrust lawyers and from abstruse economic studies is that the great majority of cartels operate clandestinely their entire lives. John Connor (Purdue Univ.)

[eng] The globalization of corporate crime: food and agricultural cartels of the 1990s - This paper presents and analyses juridical and economic data relative to all known international cartels which have been efficient during the 1990s on food and agricultural markets. 29 cartels have been...

High rates of or rising trends in recidivism is evidence that enforcement of a criminal law is failing. John Connor (Purdue Univ.)

Describes and analyzes the formation, operation, and impacts of modern global cartels. This book provides a picture of the economics, competition law and history of international price fixing. It assesses whether antitrust enforcement by the European Union, the United States, and other countries...

The goal of Global Price Fixing is to describe and analyze the origins, operation, and impacts of global cartels in the markets for lysine, citric acid, and vitamins. The work is fundamentally a historical approach to understanding the interplay among personal motivations, economic forces, and...