antitrust effectiveness and the need for comparative institutional analyses of antitrust that extend beyond matters of … precluding private antitrust enforcement as one salient choice in antitrust design depends on whether antitrust enforcement is … antitrust lawsuits or incentivizes firms to engage in frivolous litigation. Corruption expectedly reduces the effectiveness of …

. The antitrust agency’s incentives to produce evidence on the efficiency of a merger proposal depend critically on its …

antitrust lawsuit that charged Bell with having foreclosed the market for telecommunications equipment. The decree forced Bell …

Many cartels are formed by individual managers of different firms, but not by firms as collectives. However, most of … the literature in industrial economics neglects individuals' incentives to form cartels. Although oligopoly experiments …

preferences that guide such antitrust prosecutions remain understudied. We empirically examine the intertemporal shifts in U ….S. antitrust cartel prosecutions during the period 1969-2013. This period has seen substantive policy innovations with increasing …-2003, and 2004-2013. Our empirical estimates show significant variation in the number of cartels prosecuted and the penalties …

Traditional economic theory of collusion assumed that cartels are inherently unstable, and yet some manage to operate … focuses on firms as entities, even though cartels are typically formed between individuals who need to develop structures that … allow them to establish trust and ensure cooperation. We analyze 15 German cartels, focusing on the individual participants …

dataset at the level of the relevant antitrust markets and containing all merger cases scrutinized by the Commission over the …