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.)

The purpose of this article is to assess the efforts of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (“DOJâ€Â) to detect and penalize criminal price fixing, which is nearly equivalent to prosecutions of hard-core cartel conduct. To do so, I...