Although the pricing dynamics of hardcore cartels have been studied intensively from a theoretical perspective … increase profits. Our results have important implications for both the design of screening tools to detect cartels as part of …

with an elevated risk of cartelization. We argue that customers of hard core cartels can have both incentives and … endeavour to fight hard core cartels. …

procedural efficiency of cartel enforcement in the European Union (EU). We use a data set consisting of 84 cartels decided by the …

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 …

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 … contracts, we comprehensively document different collusion methods along the lines described by Stigler (1964). Quota cartels …