Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
  1. Home
  2. Search

Refine search

Refine search

Access:
Content type:
Publication date:
Apply   From and To filters
Subject: Show more
Journals Show more
Publishers: Show more
Societies Show more
Series: Show more
Collections: Show more

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

12 results

  • Introduction

  • Edited by Joseph E. Harrington Jr., University of Pennsylvania, Maarten Pieter Schinkel, Universiteit van Amsterdam
  • Book:
    Cartels Diagnosed
    Published online:
    06 December 2024
    Print publication:
    02 January 2025, pp 1-11

  • Summary

    At the start of the 1990s, the world was still a relatively hospitable place for cartels. Many enforcers, such as the US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, viewed cartels as largely operating in local or at most domestic markets and that senior executives of major corporations were not so audacious as to operate a global cartel. Turning to the European Commission, it pursued several national business arrangements that affected trade between the member states as part of its European integration objective, but mostly with injunctive relief, and not punishing fines. Some of its countries, such as The Netherlands, did not even have a competition law prohibiting cartels. However, by the end of the 1990s, the DOJ’s Antitrust Division and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition were aggressively prosecuting a slew of international cartels that had been operating for years, while the Netherlands had at long last adopted a competition law and were prosecuting a massive construction cartel with hundreds of members.

Cartels Diagnosed
  • New Insights on Collusion
  • Edited by Joseph E. Harrington Jr., Maarten Pieter Schinkel
  • Published online:
    06 December 2024
    Print publication:
    02 January 2025
  • Collusion remains a strong undercurrent of business practice despite anti-cartel enforcement being a top priority of competition authorities. Alongside active prosecution of cartels, the study of cartels is a vibrant area of research for economic and legal scholars. A challenge for both practice and scholarship is that cartels evolve, as colluding firms continuously devise new methods to circumvent competition. Cartels Diagnosed presents twelve gripping cartel case studies of collusion from key business sectors such as the airline industry, the gasoline industry, and big pharma. Written by renowned economists, these concise and accessible case studies deliver novel insights into cartel formation, facilitating practices, cartels' modus operandi, and the efficacy of cartels. Assisting in understanding new cartel mechanisms and their effects, developing new policies to deter and destabilize cartels, and measuring harm, this volume on cartel morphology is an invaluable reference for supporting public and private enforcers in detecting and prosecuting cartels.