successfully employed to discover the “Libor Scandal” much time before the opening of the cartel settlement procedure. Thus, the … London Metal Exchange, following the allegations according to which there would be an aluminium cartel behind. As a result …

We experimentally study the effect of information about competitors' actions on cartel stability and firms' incentives …

Corrigendum to “Are cartel fines optimal? Theory and evidence from the European Union.” The paper “Are cartel fines … optimal? Theory and evidence from the European Union” can be found at 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2342180' http …

Research on cartel inspection has considered dynamic behaviors of firms but not of the regulator. The current paper … allows the antitrust authority to choose the level of cartel monitoring intensity and its dynamic patterns. Specifically, we … compare stationary monitoring policies with "switching" policies that randomize cartel detecting probabilities over time with …

This paper introduces an oligopoly model that includes three actors: a cartel (comprising two or more firms that … operate like one merged company), a group of competing fringe firms, and a welfare maximizing antitrust authority. The cartel …. The cartel is internally stable if none of its member firms finds it profitable to become a fringe firm. The antitrust …

Retailers may enjoy stable cartel rents in their output market through the formation of a buyer group in their input … or rebates. The stability of such an "implied cartel" depends on the retailers' incentives to secretly source from a …

The objective of this paper is to investigate the impact of R&D cooperation on cartel formation in the product market … the incentives to create a cartel in the product market. …