requiring a higher CSR level by regulation while preserving competition always gives higher within-market welfare. …

-core cartels. We design a mechanism to form a hard-core cartel, which allows that multiple ringleaders emerge. Ringleaders often … "whistleblowers'" except for ringleaders may therefore reduce the incentive to become a ringleader and disrupt cartel formation. Yet … effect ultimately facilitates coordination in the explicit cartel …

attention to cartel detection methods, the derivation of corporate fines, the quantification of private damages and … possibilities to judge on the successfulness of cartel enforcement activities by competition authorities around the world …