This chapter examines recent developments in economic research relating to antitrust,
paying specific attention to research in the areas of collusion and merger enforcement …

Entry represents a fundamental threat to cartels engaged in price fixing. We study the extent
and effect of this behavior in the largest price fixing case in US history, which involves …

We construct a new unified panel dataset that combines route-year-level freight rates with
shipping quantities for the six major routes and industry-year-level newbuilding …

If noncartel firms adjust their pricing to the supracompetitive level sustained by a cartel,
purchasers from noncartel firms may suffer umbrella damages. This paper examines the …

In the context of a market, collusion is coordinated conduct among firms with the intent to
constrain competition for their mutual benefit. A cartel is what we call that collection of firms …

I investigate how explicit cartels, known as``shipping conferences", in a global container
shipping market facilitated the formation of one of the largest globally integrated markets …

We study an infinitely repeated oligopoly game in which firms compete on quantity and one
of them is capacity-constrained. We show that collusion sustainability is non-monotonic in …

This article studies competition in markets with transport costs and capacity constraints.
Using a rich micro‐level data set of the cement industry in Germany, we study a cartel …

Market Shares as Collusive Marker: Evidence from the European Truck Industry Page 1
Market Shares as Collusive Marker: Evidence from the European Truck Industry Citation for …

This chapter examines recent developments in economic research relating to antitrust,
paying specific attention to research in the areas of collusion and merger enforcement …