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Hüschelrath, Kai; Laitenberger, Ulrich; Smuda, Florian - 2012

We provide an empirical assessment of EC cartel enforcement decisions between 2000 and 2011. Following an initial characterisation of our dataset, we especially investigate the determinants of the duration of cartel investigations. We are able to identify several key drivers of investigation...

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Blowing the Whistle

Apesteguia, José; Dufwenberg, Martin; Selten, Reinhard - 2003

-trust innovation. The authorities wish to thwart cartels and promote competition. This effect is not evident, however; whistle …

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Assessing the effects of a road surfacing cartel in Switzerland

Hüschelrath, Kai; Leheyda, Nina; Beschorner, Patrick … - 2009

The paper assesses the impact of the detection of a hard-core cartel in the Swiss market for road surfacing on post-cartel competition. In addition to an investigation of supply-side factors, demand-side factors, and market prices, the paper also derives estimates of the economic effects of the...

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Optimal leniency programs when firms have cumulative and asymmetric evidence

Blatter, Marc; Emons, Winand; Sticher, Silvio - 2014

An antitrust authority deters collusion using fines and a leniency program. Unlike in most of the earlier literature, our firms have imperfect cumulative evidence of the collusion. That is, cartel conviction is not automatic if one firm reports: reporting makes conviction only more likely, the...

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Ministererlaubnis für Kartellfälle: Kooperation im Sinne des Gemeinwohls?

Budzinski, Oliver; Stöhr, Annika - 2020

exemption for so-called ministerial cartels under Section 8 GWB was discarded without replacement. Similar to the still existing … from the general ban on cartels under Section 1 GWB for "predominant reasons relating to the economy as a whole and the … the much-discussed instrument of ministerial approval under Section 42 GWB by a regulation on the exemption of cartels …

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Gender and collusion

Haucap, Justus; Heldman, Christina; Rau, Holger A. - 2022

Many cartels are formed by individual managers of different firms, but not by firms as collectives. However, most of … the literature in industrial economics neglects individuals' incentives to form cartels. Although oligopoly experiments …

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Chapter 15 Antitrust

Kaplow, Louis; Shapiro, Carl - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 2, (pp. 1073-1225). 2007

This is a survey of the economic principles that underlie antitrust law and how those principles relate to competition policy. We address four core subject areas: market power, collusion, mergers between competitors, and monopolization. In each area, we select the most relevant portions of...

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The media coverage of antitrust enforcement : evidence from Italy

Mangani, Andrea; Ramazanova, Karina - In: Research in economics : an international review of economics 77 (2023) 3, pp. 334-348

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Who blows the whistle on cartels? : finding the leniency applicant at the European Commission

Jiménez, Juan Luis; Ojeda-Cabral, Manuel; Ordóñez de … - In: Review of industrial organization 63 (2023) 2, pp. 123-153

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Leniency inflation, cartel damages, and criminalization

Marvão, Catarina; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - In: Review of industrial organization 63 (2023) 2, pp. 155-186

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