price. In the case of the German cement cartel that operated over 1991-2002, the primary source of non-cartel supply was … imports from Eastern European cement manufacturers. Industry sources have claimed that the cartel sought to control imports by … account of the option of bribing intermediaries. The theory predicts that the cement cartel members are more likely to share …

of overcapacity, but not if they coordinate their sales. Using a rich micro-level data set of the cement industry in … Germany, we study a cartel breakdown to identify the effect of competition on transport distances. Our econometric analyses … price competition and coordination in a theoretical model and find that when firms compete, they more often serve more …

price competition and coordination in a theoretical model and find that when firms compete, they more often serve more … distant customers that are closer to plants of competitors. By means of a rich micro-level data set of the cement industry in … Germany, we provide empirical evidence in support of this result. Controlling for other potentially confounding factors, such …

price competition and coordination in a theoretical model and find that when firms compete, they more often serve more … distant customers that are closer to plants of competitors. By means of a rich micro-level data set of the cement industry in … Germany, we provide empirical evidence in support of this result. Controlling for other potentially confounding factors, such …

breakdown of a German cement cartel. We find that, first, after the breakdown of the cartel cartel members reduce net prices to … a far larger extent than gross prices and that, second, noncartel members slip under the price umbrella of the cartel to … transactions from 36 smaller and larger customers of German cement producers to study the pricing dynamics during and after the …

. Effective private enforcement requires that cartel victims can receive (at least) full compensation for the harm suffered …. Academics and competition authorities support this goal with guidance for the calculation of cartel damages. However, they … several years until cartel victims obtain damages. Interest and inflation are thus two key drivers of adequate compensation …

antitrust agencies inot additional more detailed audits. -- cartel ; collusion ; price fixing ; collusive marker ; cartel audit … analysis and investigates whether they operate efficiently. The CFD cartel-audit should enable the detection of cartels via … patterns. The CFD cartel-audit attempts to draw conclusions from these patterns in order to find hidden cartels and to engage …

business-stealing effect and thereby promote divestment. Using the case of mergers in the Japanese cement industry, it examines …

predicting the price effects of mergers, and provide an empirical application. Approximation is an alternative to the model … conservative predictions of price increases …