This paper aims to give an overview on a very specific field in telecommunication which is the submarine cables industry. It covers some statistics on the used international bandwidth, historical milestones and information on the submarine cables' construction, geography, ownership evolvement,...

We analyze the effects of cartel policies on firm behavior using data from the German power-cable cartel. Antitrust authorities affected the cartel under two different legal regimes: penalizing the cartel in some years, and exempting it for ten years from the general cartel prohibition. While...