This paper distills and organizes facts about cartels from about 20 European Commission
decisions over 2000–2004. It describes the properties of a collusive outcome in terms of the …

Food fortification with micronutrients was initially justified in developed countries by a lack of
availability of micronutrients in staple crops, mainly due to soil exhaustion. However, in Sub …

We empirically study how collusion in product markets affects firms' financial disclosure
strategies. We find that after a rise in cartel enforcement, US firms start sharing more detailed …

A News & Views article by Michael Grusak in last year's April issue (Nat. Biotechnol. 23, 429–
430, 2005) highlighted the unresolved debate concerning the efficacy of Golden Rice in …

Many jurisdictions fine illegal cartels using penalty guidelines that presume an arbitrary 10%
overcharge. This article surveys more than 700 published economic studies and judicial …

We study a repeated game of price leadership in which a firm proposes supermarkups over
Bertrand prices to a coalition of rivals. Supermarkups and marginal costs are recoverable …

The intention of this article is to reconcile what is perceived to be a golden age of effective
cartel enforcement'with an apparent lack of effective cartel compliance even by sophisticated …

Do mergers help or hinder collusion? This article studies the stability of the vitamin cartels in
the 1990s and presents a repeated-games approach to quantify “coordinated effects” of a …

The rule against price fixing is the least controversial prohibition in competition law. There is,
however, less consensus than meets the eye on what constitutes price fixing and on how …

Throughout the world, the rule against price fixing is competition law's most important and
least controversial prohibition. Yet there is far less consensus than meets the eye on what …