.S. antitrust cartel prosecutions during the period 1969-2013. This period has seen substantive policy innovations with increasing … penalties related to fines and jail terms. There appear to be four distinct cartel policy regimes: pre-1978, 1978-1992, 1993 …While price-fixing cartel prosecutions have received significant attention, the policy determinants and the political …

Antidumping creates opportunities for abuse to stifle market competition. Whether cartels actually abuse trade policy … that matches cartel investigations with trade data at the product level. We then estimate the world import price and … quantity effects of antidumping in cartel products. We find that the use of antidumping in cartel industries helps to maintain …

This chapter deals with cartel fines as sanctions to deter cartelization. The concept of cartel fines as a deterrent is … based on the premise that a potential cartelist will refrain from joining a cartel if the expected fine will exceed or at … least offset any cartel gains. Based on a simple formal framework it is shown that the optimal deterrent fine level …