This paper analyzes dynamic cartel formation and antitrust enforcement when firms operate in demand-related markets. We … show that cartel prosecution can have a knock-on effect: desisting a cartel in one market reduces profits and cartel … stability and leads to the break-up of the cartel in the adjacent market. Cartel prosecution can also have a waterbed effect …

Retailers may enjoy stable cartel rents in their output market through the formation of a buyer group in their input … or rebates. The stability of such an "implied cartel" depends on the retailers' incentives to secretly source from a …

The objective of this paper is to investigate the impact of R&D cooperation on cartel formation in the product market … the incentives to create a cartel in the product market. …

The paper focuses on the various methods used to quantify cartel damages, which have become more and more important as … legal environments with regards to the estimation approaches being used for quantification of cartel damages. The direct …

cartelized industry. This paper endogenizes the process of cartel formation in a numeric simulation model where firms differ in … empirical methods used in the detection of cartels. -- Collusion ; Cartel Detection ; Cartel Formation ; Differential Evolution …

There are well-documented episodes for which prices remained at supracompetitive levels even after a cartel had been …. As part of the penalty imposed by the competition authority, each cartel member is required to distribute coupons to its …