) actions that aim to stop cartel activity in the short-term, immediately following successful prosecution; (c) actions that aim … pricing and periods of cartel pricing. We determine the impact of CA activity on deterred, impeded, and suffered harm. We … show how these break down into measures of the Direct Effect of interventions (i.e. the effect due to cartel activity being …

Even under antitrust enforcement, firms may still form a cartel in an infinitely-repeated oligopoly model when the … discount factor is sufficiently close to one. We present a linear oligopoly model where the profit-maximizing cartel price …

second part of the thesis the behavioral motivations of firms conduct in the context of two cartel coordination problems …