Due to being much better documented, legal cartels have recently attracted the interest of many researchers who aim to understand the functioning of illegal cartels in detail. This paper contributes to the question of what we can learn from legal cartels by taking a closer look at the cement...

Due to being much better documented, legal cartels have recently attracted the interest of many researchers who aim to understand the functioning of illegal cartels in detail. This paper contributes to the question of what we can learn from legal cartels by taking a closer look at the cement...

A number of South African price-fixing cases have been brought in markets previously characterized by legal cartels or monopolies. Furthermore, many South African markets have been liberalized since 1994, reflected in structural change in many market relationships and rendering many of the...

In recent years, South African competition authorities have initiated a number of price-fixing cases in markets where cooperation among competitors was legal and often encouraged. These markets present economists with special difficulties when estimating cartel overcharges. Conventional...

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...