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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 How many cartels are there, and how long do they live? The answers to these questions are important in assessing the need for competition policy. We present a Hidden Markov Model that takes into account that often it is not known whether a cartel exists or not.
Hyytinen, Ari +3 more
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, 2008 The strategy of most major business firms has to take into consideration cartels. This article discusses how firms can expect to behave inside cartels (firms as unitary actors), and how cartels altered corporate strategy and organizational development ...
Margaret C. Levenstein +1 more
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Penalizing cartels : the case for basing penalties on price overcharge [PDF]
, 2014 In this paper we set out the welfare economics based case for imposing cartel penalties on the cartel overcharge rather than on the more conventional bases of revenue or profits (illegal gains).
Ulph, David Tregear +2 more
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The Discontent Cartel Member and Cartel Collapse: The Case of the German Cement Cartel [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014 We hypothesize a particular source of cartel instability and explore its relevance to understanding cartel dynamics. The cartel instability is rooted in the observation that, upon cartel formation, the relative positions of firms are often fixed which may lead some growth-conscious members to be discontent.
Harrington, Joseph +3 more
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021 Social media influencers account for a growing share of marketing worldwide. We demonstrate the existence of a novel form of market failure in the advertising market: influencer cartels, where groups of influencers collude to increase their advertising revenue by inflating their engagement.
Marit Hinnosaar, Toomas Hinnosaar
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016 SummaryThe begin and end dates of cartels are often ambiguous, despite competition authorities stating them with precision. The legally established infringement period(s) from documentary evidence need not coincide with the period(s) of actual cartel effects.
Boswijk, H.P. +2 more
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Evaluating Leniency with Missing Information on Undetected Cartels: Exploring Time-Varying Policy Impacts on Cartel Duration [PDF]
, 2011 This paper examines the effects of European Commission’s (EC) new leniency program on the EC’s capabilities in detecting and deterring cartels. As a supplementary analysis, the US leniency is studied.
Zhou, Jun
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Strategic leniency: insights from game theory and empirical evidence
Vilnius University Open Series, 2020 Strategic leniency signifies potential exploits of leniency that could generate detrimental effects. Leniency could be exploited in three distinct ways: (1) used to punish cartel deviator; (2) used as a cartel exit strategy; (3) used as a way to report ...
Martynas Jablonskis
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Competition criminal law: an international and global trend? [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 Research background: Competition laws have become widespread and as a rule have a sanctioning nature. DANVERS refers an exponential increase in legal systems that introduced competition laws in recent years, accounting for more than 127 jurisdictions ...
Fernandes Godinho Inês +1 more
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Access to Documents in Antitrust Litigation – EU and Croatian Perspective [PDF]
Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, 2015 The paper analyses access to documents in cartel-based damages cases from the EU and Croatian perspective. It considers all relevant EU and Croatian legislation and case-law primarily focusing on the expected impact of the newly enacted Damages Directive.
Vlatka Butorac Malnar
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