based on a small number of sentences imposed in quite recent international cartels. In this note, I analyze 513 sentencing … become fugitives than are domestic cartelists. Suggestions that U.S. prosecutors discriminate against Asian cartel managers …

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the current cartel fine levels of the European Union and the United … United States cartels are assembled and examined (these cartels overcharged an average of 18% to 37%, depending upon the data … cartels also are analyzed (which show overcharges in the 28% to 54% range). The article similarly examines cartels that had …

on registered horizontal cartels to learn about their inner working. Applying content analysis to legally binding cartel … divide markets, and rely the least on information exchange and punishment. Price and payment condition cartels primarily aim …Cartels were legal to a large extent in Austria until the country’s EU Accession in 1995. We examine archival material …

screen with a software. The test is hard to beat for cartels using this otherwise elusive form of price-fixing. When a cartel … to screen industries that traditionally apply delivered pricing for the presence of cartels. We operationalize this …

cartel formation, cartel stability and cartel recidivism. The program leads to lower prices for three reasons. First, non …-cooperators are more persistent in their behavior which effectively blocks cartel formation in their respective groups. Second …, members of groups that do form a cartel defect more often thus reducing the average cartel lifetime. Third, the difference …

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 …

Public and private action against cartels is an internationally recognized cornerstone of antitrust enforcement …. 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 …