in the cartelized market. Our results have important implications for an effective prosecution of anti-cartel law …

-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 …

The recent judgment in Pfleiderer exposes a tension between two goals of European cartel control policy: the ex ante … providing information to private parties which can enhance cartel members’ exposure to damages. This paper considers Pfleiderer …

antitrust exemption, access rules to Judo tournaments, sale systems of media rights in European football as well as a unique …

We provide a comprehensive quantitative assessment of cartels and the related cartel enforcement process in the … European Union (EU) from 2001 to 2015. In a first step, we present a detailed characterization of all cartel cases decided by … the European Commission (EC) with respect to various criteria such as the number of involved firm groups, cartel market …

cartels, the leniency program represents a legal, effective and often the only tool available for antitrust enforcers to …-depth legal & economic analysis of cartel law enforcement on both sides of the Atlantic …

formation and dissolution to illustrate how changes in antitrust policies and economic conditions might affect cartel duration … detecting and deterring cartels. As a supplementary analysis, the US leniency is studied. I discuss a dynamic model of cartel …