cartels and preventing the creation of new ones, is at the core of open and fair pan-European markets, higher productivity and … of companies involved in cartels, focusing on the effectiveness of preventive policy of the Commission in antitrust … enforcement, reflected in particular by the evolution of the fines imposed in cartel cases. The analysis outlines how antitrust …

three cartel cases: i) international elevators and escalators cartel in various European countries during the years 1995 …-2004, ii) Finnish raw wood cartel during the years 1997-2004, and iii) Finnish construction cartel 1994-2002. The findings …

This paper is centered upon the analysis of Leniency’s effectiveness in cartel agreements. The influences of this … policy on cartel evolution and on the fine mechanism are the main topics to be studied. The first part of the research … evolution of cartels before and after the entering into force of this policy is analyzed at a macro-level. Afterwards, a more …

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that a cartel is not necessarily synonymous with a brake on innovation but … international cartel (International Cable Development Corporation) from the beginning of the twentieth century until the 1970s. The … cartels studied, which were primarily based on territorial and price protection, fostered various forms of information and …

. The book also examines issues such as the industries in which collusion is more likely to occur; the effect of cartels and … cartel laws on market structure and profitability; the links between competition, advertising, and innovation; and the … constraints on the exercise of merger and antitrust policies. …