on registered horizontal cartels to learn about their inner working. Applying content analysis to legally binding cartel …

screen with a software. The test is hard to beat for cartels using this otherwise elusive form of price-fixing. When a cartel …

registration with the Austrian Cartel Court. We obtained access to the registration data, and scanned them all towards a …

Despite the successes of cartel detection over the last twenty years, there are many who believe that competition …

courts and European agencies to show the incentive compatibility constraint (ICC) of the short-lived vitamin C cartel was … vitamin C cartel, but others could have further destabilized it, because both the direction and magnitude of "coordinated …

This paper examines whether cartel breakdown provokes a period of intensive merger activity amongst the former … sample of 84 European cartels, it finds that mergers are indeed more frequent post-cartel breakdown, especially in markets … effects - alternatively, they may be the consequence of market restructuring, necessitated by more intense competition post-cartel …

the trigger price. Moreover, they tend to communicate more often as they become less patient, a cartel grows in size, or …

communication. Using a repeated, asymmetric capacity constraint price game, we show that, in line with theory, a partial cartel is … sufficient to increase market prices for all firms. Moreover, we find that prices of cartel insiders and outsiders are not … necessarily on the same level what contradicts common theoretical predictions. This is because communication allows cartel members …

This paper analyzes price discrimination of an upstream cartel in the presence of a dominant firm at the retail level …. Charging different wholesale prices creates a bond between the upstream cartel and the favored downstream firm. This bond … reduces or eliminates this firm's incentives to accept deviation offers from upstream cartel members. When a cartel price …

incentive to deviate from a cartel. We also present conditions for the emergence of a partial cartel, with the capacity … small firm induces a partial conspiracy that is Pareto-dominant. Implications for cartel identification and enforcement are …