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Deterrence, Recidivism and European Cartel Fines

Veljanovski, Cento - 2018

Based on an analysis of cartel prosecutions since 2007, this article assesses the way the European Commission has built up its fines in practice. The fines are compared with those imposed by the European Commission over the period from 1999 to 2006. The main findings are that, while fines have...

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Legal and Economic Analysis of Cartels, Their Enforcement and The Leniency Program

Funta, Rastislav - 2017

detect the most serious types of agreements restricting competition. EU and US leniency programs share some common features …

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Distribution of new cars : no longer an issue for EU competition law?

Šmejkal, Václav - In: Národohospodářský obzor : časopis věnovaný … 21 (2021) 4, pp. 371-383

Commission and the EU Courts still some 15 years ago. In recent years, however, only a few cases have been reported at the … national level of EU Member States. Is it because the distribution of new cars really ceased to be a competition problem as the … emerged in the EU after the year 2000 and, second, to speculate somewhat whether new forms of distribution, brought by the …

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The Private International Cartels (PIC) Data Set : Guide and Summary Statistics, 1990-2019

Connor, John M. - 2020

This paper describes the sources and methods used to create the PIC data set, which the author believes to be the largest collection of legal-economic information on contemporary price-fixing cartels. It details the scope, strengths, and limitations of the data therein. Finally, summary...

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Effective Public Enforcement of Cartels : Rates of Challenged and Annulled Cartel Fines in Ten European Member States

Outhuijse, Annalies - 2019

A substantial number of cartels in the European Union are detected and enforced by the national competition authorities (NCAs). The effectiveness of domestic enforcement has been subject to extensive review and debates, which have recently culminated and resulted in the proposal for the ECN+...

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The Predictability of DOJ Cartel Fines

Connor, John M. - 2016

For criminal violations of the Sherman Act, although guided by federal sentencing guidelines, U.S. Department of Justice has great latitude in recommending corporate cartel fines to the federal courts, and its recommendations are nearly always determinative. In this paper, we analyze the...

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Policy Innovations, Political Preferences, and Cartel Prosecutions

Ghosal, Vivek - 2016

While price-fixing cartel prosecutions have received significant attention, the policy determinants and the political preferences that guide such antitrust prosecutions remain understudied. We empirically examine the intertemporal shifts in U.S. antitrust cartel prosecutions during the period...

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Evaluating Leniency with Missing Information on Undetected Cartels : Exploring Time-Varying Policy Impacts on Cartel Duration

Zhou, Jun - 2016

This paper examines the effects of European Commission's (EC) new leniency program on the EC's capabilities in detecting and deterring cartels. As a supplementary analysis, the US leniency is studied. I discuss a dynamic model of cartel formation and dissolution to illustrate how changes in...

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Policy Innovations, Political Preferences, and Cartel Prosecutions

Ghosal, Vivek - 2015

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Determinants of the Duration of European Appellate Court Proceedings in Cartel Cases

Smuda, Florian - 2014

The duration of appellate court proceedings is an important determinant of the efficiency of a court system. We use data of 234 firm groups that participated in 63 cartels convicted by the European Commission between 2000 and 2012 to investigate the determinants of the duration of the subsequent...

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