environment, their agreements may be exempted from cartel law. To qualify, the public benefits must compensate consumers for … higher prices of the private good. We study the balancing involved in assessing a public interest-cartel in a public goods … Samuelson condition. The cartel will provide minimal public good for maximal overcharges. Nevertheless it is typically not …

theory to show how an interbank lending rates cartel can be sustained by preemptive portfolio changes. Exchange of … direction in which to rig the rate, however, their interests need to be sufficiently aligned. In this paper we develop cartel … in eligible transactions rigging to justify their submissions. As the cartel is not able to always find stable …