While private actions for damages by customers against price-cartels receive much attention, the treatment of other … groups affected by such conspiracies is largely unresolved. This article narrows the research gap with respect to suppliers … to a downstream price cartel. First, we show that such suppliers incur losses driven by a direct quantity, a price and a …

While private actions for damages by customers against price-cartels receive much attention, the treatment of other … groups affected by such conspiracies is largely unresolved. This article narrows the research gap with respect to suppliers … to a downstream price cartel. First, we show that such suppliers incur losses driven by a direct quantity, a price and a …

Public and private action against cartels is an internationally recognized cornerstone of antitrust enforcement …

Damage compensation claims in case of cartels are supposed to increase deterrence, compensate losses and increase … efficiency. I show that such claims can instead have adverse effects: If suppliers or buyers of cartelists are compensated in … upstream cartelists who do not monopolize the market increase consumer prices. Suppliers of cartelists can be worse off when …

divestitures on German wholesale electricity prices. Our identification strategy is based on the observation that energy suppliers …