Although the pricing dynamics of hardcore cartels have been studied intensively from a theoretical perspective … increase profits. Our results have important implications for both the design of screening tools to detect cartels as part of …

to screen industries that traditionally apply delivered pricing for the presence of cartels. We operationalize this … screen with a software. The test is hard to beat for cartels using this otherwise elusive form of price-fixing. When a cartel …

investigate and prosecute cartels. Currently, in several jurisdictions, information acquired in, for example, a M&A investigation … cartels are actually prosecuted via this channel, the proposal has the likelihood of creating a meaningful deterrence effect … fight against hardcore cartels that operate within jurisdictions as well as internationally. …

: subjects use costly fines as (altruistic) punishments. Leniency further increases deterrence, but stabilizes surviving cartels …. With rewards, cartels are reported systematically and prices finally fall. If a ringleader is excluded from leniency …

Cartels were legal to a large extent in Austria until the country’s EU Accession in 1995. We examine archival material … on registered horizontal cartels to learn about their inner working. Applying content analysis to legally binding cartel … contracts, we comprehensively document different collusion methods along the lines described by Stigler (1964). Quota cartels …