considerations, and minimum fines. Bankruptcy considerations limit maximum fines, ensure abnormal cartel profits and impose a … lower price by making it more attractive than collusion on higher prices. For a range of low cartel prices, the fine is set … to the legal mi nimum. Raising minimum fines will enable the cartel to raise its price and is better avoided. Our …

antitrust damage estimation based on predicted cartel prices can have either sign. We extend the before-during-and-after method … actual cartel effects. In this paper, we show that misdating cartel effects leads to a (weak) overestimation of but … with an empirical cartel dating procedure that uses multiple structural break tests to determine the actual begin and end …

We analyze how leniency affects cartel pricing in an infinitely-repeated oligopoly model where the fine rates are … we focus on the worst possible outcome. We investigate the maximal cartel price, the largest price for which the … conditions for sustainability hold. We analyze how the maximal cartel price supported by different cartel strategies adjusts in …

In this paper we set out the welfare economics based case for imposing cartel penalties on the cartel overcharge rather … of a penalty based on the cartel overcharge with three other penalty regimes: fixed penalties; penalties based on revenue … conjunction with the above result, our analysis of cartel stability (and thus deterrence), shows that penalties based on the …

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

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