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public enforcement and the calculation of damages as part of private enforcement of competition law. …
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Cartel detection is usually viewed as a key task of either competition authorities or compliance officials in firms … price screen would have allowed particularly larger customers to detect the upstream cement cartel before the competition … conclusion that competition authorities should view customers of potentially cartelized industries as important allies in their …
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We use publicly available price data from the German cement industry to estimate the cartelinduced price increase. We apply two different comparator-based approaches - the 'before and-after' approach and the 'difference-in-differences' approach - and especially study the impact of various...
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We use a unique private data set of about 340,000 invoice positions from 36 smaller and larger customers of German cement producers to study the value of such transaction data for an estimation of cartel damages. In particular, we investigate, first, how structural break analysis can be used to...
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