cement producers to study the value of such transaction data for an estimation of cartel damages. In particular, we … investigate, first, how structural break analysis can be used to identify the exact end of the cartel agreement and, second, how … conclude that transaction data allows such a detailed assessment of the cartel and its impact on direct customers that its …

The paper assesses the impact of the detection of a hard-core cartel in the Swiss market for road surfacing on post-cartel … derives estimates of the economic effects of the decision. The results indicate that the detection of the cartel may have led …

breakdown of a German cement cartel. We find that, first, after the breakdown of the cartel, cartel members reduce net prices to … a far larger extent than gross prices and that, second, noncartel members slip under the price umbrella of the cartel to …

Cartel detection is usually viewed as a key task of either competition authorities or compliance officials in firms … price screen would have allowed particularly larger customers to detect the upstream cement cartel before the competition …