We hypothesize a particular source of cartel instability and explore its relevance to understanding cartel dynamics …. The cartel instability is rooted in the observation that, upon cartel formation, the relative positions of firms are often … fixed which may lead some growthconscious members to be discontent. This incongruity between a cartel member’s allocated …

cartel member’s plant to the customer. We investigate this claim by first developing a theory of collusive pricing that takes … account of the option of bribing intermediaries. The theory predicts that the cement cartel members are more likely to share …A challenge for many cartels is avoiding a destabilizing increase in non-cartel supply in response to having raised …

analysis and investigates whether they operate efficiently. The CFD cartel-audit should enable the detection of cartels via … patterns. The CFD cartel-audit attempts to draw conclusions from these patterns in order to find hidden cartels and to engage … antitrust agencies inot additional more detailed audits. -- cartel ; collusion ; price fixing ; collusive marker ; cartel audit …

court cases - the paper wholesaler cartel decision of 2007 and the cement cartel decision of 2009. We characterise the trade …

-ity of the Boone-Indicator using cartel cases. Our analysis reveals that the traditional regres-sion approach of the …