"This book examines the legislative patchwork surrounding access to the European Commission's cartel case files. Recent legislative changes have increased the value of the files and have also highlighted the inherent tension between a number of competing interests affecting their accessibility....

Competition policy is a subject of heated debate. Antitrust authorities, seeking to battle anticompetitive behavior in complex cases to the best of their abilities, often find themselves advised by rival economic theories and disputed empirical analyses. As a consequence, there is a real...

Basing-point pricing is known to have been abused by geographically dispersed firms in order to eliminate competition on transportation costs. This paper develops a topographic test for collusive basing-point pricing. The method uses transaction data (prices, quantities) and customer project...