common beliefs and the existing literature, that conspirators often apply for leniency long after a cartel collapses. We …

While price-fixing cartel prosecutions have received significant attention, the policy determinants and the political ….S. antitrust cartel prosecutions during the period 1969-2013. This period has seen substantive policy innovations with increasing … penalties related to fines and jail terms. There appear to be four distinct cartel policy regimes: pre-1978, 1978-1992, 1993 …

The paper focuses on the various methods used to quantify cartel damages, which have become more and more important as … legal environments with regards to the estimation approaches being used for quantification of cartel damages. The direct …

This chapter examines anti-cartel enforcement in selected jurisdictions around the world, paying particular attention …. There are numerous indicators that enforcement in North America comes closest to optimal deterrence of illegal cartel … against cartel violators is hampered by court rules that severely limit the rights of cartel victims to seek compensation in …

prosecutions data over a long time horizon, 1969–2016, this Article examines the attributes of cartel enforcement over time and the … changing use of tools to assist with detection and punishment. We provide a comprehensive description of critical cartel … descriptive analysis which tends to reveal three broad phases of U.S. cartel enforcement and prosecutions. The most recent data …

development of the innovative and modern leniency policy. Following the examination of the main conditions and reasons for cartel …

(1978). This paper examines what Bork said and did not say about cartel enforcement and offers an examination of how actual … the structure of cartel enforcement played out relative to what Bork advocated. To provide some perspective on Bork’s view … of cartel enforcement, we compare his views to those of the other major influential antitrust book of the time by Posner …

Leniency Programs. Damage actions may reduce the attractiveness of Leniency Programs for cartel participants if their … cooperation with the competition authority increases the chance that the cartel’s victims will bring a successful suit. A long … analysis shows such compromise is not required: limiting the cartel victims’ ability to recover their loss is not necessary to …

We investigate cartelists’ merger behavior using European Commission (EC) cartel decisions over a 28-year span and … few particular industries and usually include only a minority of the cartel participants. The EC’s leniency programs … expedite mergers. The EC’s cartel settlement procedure delays merger. After cartel dissolution, co-conspirators merge at a …