We provide a comprehensive quantitative assessment of cartels and the related cartel enforcement process in the … of the public cartel enforcement process in the European Union - subdivided further into its duration, types of cartel …

. Special emphasis is given to the game-theoretic approach to predation and to the reasons why this approach has never gained … of antitrust courts, in particular their preference for easy-to-apply rules. Therefore predation cases are still governed … almost always irrational - and a Harvard-style attention for the operational side of antitrust enforcement …

are more inclined to conclude that US cartel enforcement has seen an underlying shift away from focusing on smaller … policy priorities and a search for the optimal enforcement design to curtail one of the clearest sources of welfare loss …

essential for judgments in such cases, and we allow the court to make errors. The imperfect enforcement by courts, affects both …

increase profits. Our results have important implications for both the design of screening tools to detect cartels as part of … public enforcement and the calculation of damages as part of private enforcement of competition law. …