cement producers to study the value of such transaction data for an estimation of cartel damages. In particular, we … investigate, first, how structural break analysis can be used to identify the exact end of the cartel agreement and, second, how … conclude that transaction data allows such a detailed assessment of the cartel and its impact on direct customers that its …

-in-differences’ approach – and especially study the impact of various assumptions on the transition period from the cartel period to the non-cartel … period on the overcharge estimate. We find that the cement cartel led to price overcharges in a range from 20.3 to 26 …

breakdown of a German cement cartel. We find that, first, after the breakdown of the cartel, cartel members reduce net prices to … a far larger extent than gross prices and that, second, noncartel members slip under the price umbrella of the cartel to …

Cartel detection is usually viewed as a key task of either competition authorities or compliance officials in firms … price screen would have allowed particularly larger customers to detect the upstream cement cartel before the competition …