While there are suggestions in applied cartel studies that price dispersion changes when cartelization of a market … the link between overt collusion and price dispersion. Formal theories and observation of cartel behavior suggest that …

This chapter examines anti-cartel enforcement in selected jurisdictions around the world, paying particular attention …. There are numerous indicators that enforcement in North America comes closest to optimal deterrence of illegal cartel … against cartel violators is hampered by court rules that severely limit the rights of cartel victims to seek compensation in …

In this paper we model cartel duration as a mixed proportional hazard model and condition on cartel characteristics … such as the agency first detecting the cartel, industry, if it is a bid rigging or price fixing cartel, the number of … longer-lived than others, while cartels distributed across geographies tend to be shorter-lived. Cartel durations are …

Justice has great latitude in recommending corporate cartel fines to the federal courts, and its recommendations are nearly …-deterrence model is quite good. We find that U.S. corporate cartel fines are strongly directly related to economic injuries from …

recoveries and their role in deterring cartels. The mainfindings are:• Recoveries of cartel damages occur overwhelmingly in the ….• U.S. cartel recoveries are growing exponentially and will likely reach $60 billion in 2017.• Every U.S. criminal cartel … average severity of cartel penalties is highest for Canadian fines (15% of affected sales for local to 17% for global …

Using the overcharge estimates for 333 cartel episodes, we evaluate the effect of cartel characteristics and changes in … percent of selling price. International cartels imposed higher overcharges than domestic cartels. Longer cartel episodes …

results demonstrate the significance of five categories of explanatory factors: market structure, internal cartel organization … with previous cartel duration studies, industry concentration and market share have positive effects on cartel duration …. Contrary to former findings, the present analysis exhibits a positive relationship between economic downturns and cartel …