less inclined to collude than men when collusion harms a third party. No gender difference can be found in the absence of a … distance is small they hardly behave collusively when collusion harms a third party. …

While price-fixing cartel prosecutions have received significant attention, the policy determinants and the political ….S. antitrust cartel prosecutions during the period 1969-2013. This period has seen substantive policy innovations with increasing … penalties related to fines and jail terms. There appear to be four distinct cartel policy regimes: pre-1978, 1978-1992, 1993 …

This paper analyzes dynamic cartel formation and antitrust enforcement when firms operate in demand-related markets. We … show that cartel prosecution can have a knock-on effect: desisting a cartel in one market reduces profits and cartel … stability and leads to the break-up of the cartel in the adjacent market. Cartel prosecution can also have a waterbed effect …

This paper analyzes dynamic cartel formation and antitrust enforcement when firms operate in demand-related markets. We … show that cartel prosecution can have a knock-on effect: desisting a cartel in one market reduces profits and cartel … stability and leads to the break-up of the cartel in the adjacent market. Cartel prosecution can also have a waterbed effect …

In this paper we analyze cartel formation and self-reporting incentives when firms operate in several geographical …-reporting by cartel members …

pay reduced fines. This paper connects this potential adverse effect to the number of firms involved in the cartel …

organizing a mobile phone cartel with stable market shares (one-half, one-third and one-sixth respectively) and for directly … cartel, BT was too small for it to be worth its while to join it; it is not necessary to exchange information directly to … assuming that the costs are kept the same when switching from Cournot competition to any form of cartel. We deduced that market …

. We focus on a German coffee producer cartel that colluded under two different regimes: (i) involving wholesale prices in … without resale price maintenance in 2003. The cartel, however, broke down a few months after the announcement. The collusive … overcharge increased to 14% after the introduction of resale price maintenance, and the cartel lasted for a few years. We …

less inclined to collude than men when collusion harms a third party. No gender difference can be found in the absence of a … distance is small they hardly behave collusively when collusion harms a third party. …