The amino-acid lysine cartel was a watershed even in antitrust enforcement. It was the first global price … history of the global lysine cartel and the legal consequences for its members in the United States. The story focuses …

This paper presents an updated narrative of the history of the global lysine cartel and the legal consequences for its …

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 …

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 …

other modern cartel. For example, the internal records of the major defendants have yielded monthly transaction prices for …

on average by 10% is much too low, and that principles of optimal deterrence indicate that current levels of cartel …