. This development is documented by various research papers, high-level exchanges between antitrust experts as well as an …

. This development is documented by various research papers, high-level exchanges between antitrust experts as well as an …

Due to being much better documented, legal cartels have recently attracted the interest of many researchers who aim to … understand the functioning of illegal cartels in detail. This paper contributes to the question of what we can learn from legal … cartels by taking a closer look at the cement industry which has a rich history of both legal and illegal cartels. We …

contracts, we comprehensively document different collusion methods along the lines described by Stigler (1964). Quota cartels …Cartels were legal to a large extent in Austria until the country's EU Accession in 1995. We examine archival material … on registered horizontal cartels to learn about their inner working. Applying content analysis to legally binding cartel …

We provide a comprehensive quantitative assessment of cartels and the related cartel enforcement process in the …

The paper aims at assessing the costs and benefits of antitrust enforcement. The analysis starts with an investigation … competition actually needs protection by antitrust policy in order to hinder firms to permanently abuse market power to the … detriment of consumers. Subsequently, an estimation of the costs and benefits of antitrust enforcement is undertaken for the …