The paper focuses on the various methods used to quantify cartel damages, which have become more and more important as … legal environments with regards to the estimation approaches being used for quantification of cartel damages. The direct …

. Effective private enforcement requires that cartel victims can receive (at least) full compensation for the harm suffered …. Academics and competition authorities support this goal with guidance for the calculation of cartel damages. However, they … several years until cartel victims obtain damages. Interest and inflation are thus two key drivers of adequate compensation …

proportion to the profits lost due to the cartel, expected cartel profits can increase. Claims of downstream firms against …

to a downstream price cartel. First, we show that such suppliers incur losses driven by a direct quantity, a price and a … residual demand estimation that allows to quantify all determinants of cartel suppliers’ damages, thereby showing that supplier … damage claims are a viable option in practice that can contribute to full compensation and greater cartel deterrence. …

probably the most important one: suppliers to a downstream sellers’ cartel. The paper shows graphically and analytically that … cartel suppliers are negatively affected by the conspiracy depending on three effects: a direct quantity, a price and a cost … recent case law and the forthcoming Damages Directive, allows for approving cartel supplier damage claims. We argue that this …