Justice has great latitude in recommending corporate cartel fines to the federal courts, and its recommendations are nearly …-deterrence model is quite good. We find that U.S. corporate cartel fines are strongly directly related to economic injuries from … collusion. However, U.S. fines do not conform to the theory's predictions about the probability of detection and conviction of …

Government enforcement against collusion, now viewed by the Supreme Court as the “supreme evil” in antitrust, has gone … 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 …

detect, indict, and deter horizontal collusion during 1990-2007 and offers policy suggestions likely to improve that … enforcement. Division leaders emphasize that collusion is the agency's number-one priority. Paradoxically, there is evidence that … cartels. The number of cartel investigations has not risen appreciably. Moreover, the number of criminal Section 1 cases filed …

(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 …

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the current cartel fine levels of the European Union and the United … results show that on average these cartel overcharges are significantly larger than the criminal fines of either the European … penalties for hard core collusion substantially …

cartel characteristics. International conspiracies, global cartels, and bid-rigging schemes are granted lower percentage than …

control drugs. Our analysis highlights (i) the difficulty of establishing a suitable control group when collusion is pervasive … collusion on prices. Our most conservative estimates suggest that collusion led to price increases of between 0% and 166% for …

. However, there is little consensus as to whether pricing collusion is also a source of profitability, and indeed, whether … perfect collusion among firms could achieve. Firms are estimated to cooperate on price to the extent that margins are 2 …