Schinkel, Maarten-Pieter; Toth, Lukas - 2019 - Revision: March 2020
environment, their agreements may be exempted from cartel law. To qualify, the public benefits must compensate consumers for … higher prices of the private good. We study the balancing involved in assessing a public interest-cartel in a public goods … Samuelson condition. The cartel will provide minimal public good for maximal overcharges. Nevertheless it is typically not …