screen with a software. The test is hard to beat for cartels using this otherwise elusive form of price-fixing. When a cartel …

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 …

affected firms' margins and merger activity. We find that these programs, which give amnesty to cartel conspirators that …

Private cartel damages litigation is on the rise in Europe since early 2000. This development has been initiated by the … effective compensation of damaged parties of cartel infringements. For that purpose we analyse all European cartel cases with a …