Bueren, Eckart; Smuda, Florian - 2013 - First version: August 2013, this version: October 2013
While private actions for damages by customers against price-cartels receive much attention, the treatment of other … groups affected by such conspiracies is largely unresolved. This article narrows the research gap with respect to suppliers … to a downstream price cartel. First, we show that such suppliers incur losses driven by a direct quantity, a price and a …