on registered horizontal cartels to learn about their inner working. Applying content analysis to legally binding cartel … contracts, we comprehensively document different collusion methods along the lines described by Stigler (1964). Quota cartels …Cartels were legal to a large extent in Austria until the country’s EU Accession in 1995. We examine archival material …

We investigate the impact of cartel breakdowns on merger activity. Merging information on cartel cases decided by the … average number of all merger transactions increase by up to 51 percent when comparing the three years before the cartel … even more – by up to 83 percent – after the cartel breakdowns. Our results not only suggest that competition authorities …

data set consisting of 442 firm groups that participated in 76 cartels decided by the European Commission between 2000 and … in the cartelized market. Our results have important implications for an effective prosecution of anti-cartel law …

for a sample of cartels prosecuted by the European Commission between 1996 and 2014. The start of a Commission … of application in separate markets in which a conspirator in the investigated market also engaged in collusion. The … light on enforcement efforts against cartels and other forms of conspiracy. …

While private actions for damages against price-cartels by direct and indirect customers receive much attention, it is … 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 …

data of 234 firm groups that participated in 63 cartels convicted by the European Commission between 2000 and 2012 to …