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 …

should consider mergers as potential ‘second-best’ alternative to cartels but also imply that resource (re)allocations in …

data set consisting of 442 firm groups that participated in 76 cartels decided by the European Commission between 2000 and …

While private actions for damages by customers against price-cartels receive much attention, the treatment of other …

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

While private actions for damages against price-cartels by direct and indirect customers receive much attention, it is …

data of 234 firm groups that participated in 63 cartels convicted by the European Commission between 2000 and 2012 to …