The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the current cartel fine levels of the European Union and the United … United States cartels are assembled and examined (these cartels overcharged an average of 18% to 37%, depending upon the data … cartels also are analyzed (which show overcharges in the 28% to 54% range). The article similarly examines cartels that had …

Justice has great latitude in recommending corporate cartel fines to the federal courts, and its recommendations are nearly … Antitrust Division of the DOJ on 118 corporate participants of hard-core global cartels. Our behavioral model provides the first … direct test of the optimal deterrence theory of antitrust crimes. Regressions are fitted to a sample of the corporations that …