screen with a software. The test is hard to beat for cartels using this otherwise elusive form of price-fixing. When a cartel … to screen industries that traditionally apply delivered pricing for the presence of cartels. We operationalize this … was found to have abused the basing-point system, our method can be used to estimate antitrust damages. …

Private cartel damages litigation is on the rise in Europe since early 2000. This development has been initiated by the … implementation of the EU Directive on Antitrust Damages end of 2016. This paper explores the impact of this reform process on … effective compensation of damaged parties of cartel infringements. For that purpose we analyse all European cartel cases with a …

Private cartel damages litigation is on the rise in Europe since early 2000. This development has been initiated by the … implementation of the EU Directive on Antitrust Damages end of 2016. This paper explores the impact of this reform process on … effective compensation of damaged parties of cartel infringements. For that purpose we analyse all European cartel cases with a …

such guidelines, the pharmaceutical industry appears to be an important candidate for antitrust attention, given the …

This paper analyzes dynamic cartel formation and antitrust enforcement when firms operate in demand-related markets. We … markets. We also consider policy implications of our analysis regarding an antitrust authority's investment decision in cartel … show that cartel prosecution can have a knock-on effect: desisting a cartel in one market reduces profits and cartel …

affected firms' margins and merger activity. We find that these programs, which give amnesty to cartel conspirators that … cooperate with antitrust authorities, reduced the gross margins of the affected firms. However, firms reacted to new regulations … were generally effective, their full potential was mitigated by mergers that substitute for cartels, and that a strong …