The paper provides a comprehensive survey of the economics behind the fight against hard core cartels. Differentiating between four subsequent stages – characterisation, welfare effects, enforcement and evaluation – the paper pays particular attention to cartel detection methods, the...

Kartelle fügen Volkswirtschaften weltweit schwere ökonomische Schäden zu, die nicht nur aus Preiserhöhungen für die entsprechenden Güter oder Dienstleistungen bestehen, sondern gleichzeitig auch reduzierte Anreize zu Innovationen in den betroffenen Branchen umfassen. Die Aufdeckung und...

Einführung in die Thematik und Konzeption des Lehrbuchs -- Ökonomik der Kartelle und Kartellverfolgung -- Kartelle in der Europäischen Union: Überblick und empirische Evidenz -- Kartellverfolgung in der Europäischen Union: Überblick und empirische Evidenz -- Das Zementkartell in...

The paper assesses the impact of the detection of a hard-core cartel in the Swiss market for road surfacing on post-cartel competition. In addition to an investigation of supply-side factors, demand-side factors, and market prices, the paper also derives estimates of the economic effects of the...

Although the pricing dynamics of hardcore cartels have been studied intensively from a theoretical perspective, empirical evidence is still rare. We combine publicly available data with a unique private data set of about 340,000 market transactions from 36 smaller and larger customers of German...

Cartel detection is usually viewed as a key task of either competition authorities or compliance officials in firms with an elevated risk of cartelization. We argue that customers of hard core cartels can have both incentives and possibilities to detect such agreements on their own initiative...

We use publicly available price data from the German cement industry to estimate the cartelinduced price increase. We apply two different comparator-based approaches - the 'before and-after' approach and the 'difference-in-differences' approach - and especially study the impact of various...

We use a unique private data set of about 340,000 invoice positions from 36 smaller and larger customers of German cement producers to study the value of such transaction data for an estimation of cartel damages. In particular, we investigate, first, how structural break analysis can be used to...

The paper assesses the impact of the detection of a hard-core cartel in the Swiss market for road surfacing on post-cartel competition. In addition to an investigation of supply-side factors, demand-side factors, and market prices, the paper also derives estimates of the economic effects of the...