This paper assesses the antitrust fines and private penalties imposed on the participants of 260 international cartels … first to investigate and sanction international cartels, and its investigations are about seven times faster than EU probes …

international cartelists. World wide, median real cartel penalties of all types amounted to less than 5% of overcharges. [See … international cartels discovered anywhere in the world from January 1990 to the end of 2005. Measured in real 2005 money, aggregate … cartel sales and overcharges totaled about $1.2 trillion and $500 billion, respectively. In the early 2000s, about 35 such …

recoveries and their role in deterring cartels. The mainfindings are:• Recoveries of cartel damages occur overwhelmingly in the … international cartels.• The time needed to settle fell from more than ten years before 1990 to less than three years in the 2000s ….• U.S. cartel recoveries are growing exponentially and will likely reach $60 billion in 2017.• Every U.S. criminal cartel …

international cartelists. World wide, median real cartel penalties of all types amounted to less than 21% of overcharges … international cartels discovered anywhere in the world from January 1990 to the end of 2005. Measured in real 2005 money, aggregate … cartel sales and overcharges totaled about $1.2 trillion and $300 billion, respectively. In the early 2000s, about 35 such …

This three-page article is a succinct, nontechnical introduction to the topic of the economics private international …

• The purpose of the following charts is to illustrate the size and economic impacts of the modern international cartel … movement and the enforcement responses of the world’s antitrust authorities and national courts. These illustrations may serve … investigations, damages suits, fines, or consent decrees) between January 1990 and December 2008. Each cartel had participants with …

international cartels allows one to deduce that current antitrust enforcement is inadequate to deter cartel formation. This …This paper presents and analyses economic data on 167 international cartels that were discovered by antitrust … authorities after January 1990. The median cartel had five corporate members and generated $1.2 billion in sales during the …

international price-fixing in the past 20 years. Recidivism appears to be increasing rapidly, both in number and relative to all …

have trended downward ever since; (4) 6% of the cartel episodes are zero; (5) median overcharges of international … market data find that the Cartel Monopoly Index (CMI) varies from 11% to 95%. Historical penalty guidelines aimed at …