data set consisting of 442 firm groups that participated in 76 cartels decided by the European Commission between 2000 and …

data set consisting of 442 firm groups that participated in 76 cartels decided by the European Commission between 2000 and … in the cartelized market. Our results have important implications for an effective prosecution of anti-cartel law …

We provide an empirical assessment of EC cartel enforcement decisions between 2000 and 2011. Following an initial … characterisation of our dataset, we especially investigate the determinants of the duration of cartel investigations. We are able to … identify several key drivers of investigation length such as the Commission's speed of cartel detection, the type of cartel …

data of 234 firm groups that participated in 63 cartels convicted by the European Commission between 2000 and 2012 to …

We investigate the impact of cartel breakdowns on merger activity. Merging information on cartel cases decided by the … average number of all merger transactions increase by up to 51 percent when comparing the three years before the cartel … European Commission (EC) between 2000 and 2011 with a detailed data set of worldwide merger activity, we find that, first, the …

and regulations. We use data of 467 firm groups that participated in 88 cartels convicted by the European Commission …

data of 234 firm groups that participated in 63 cartels convicted by the European Commission between 2000 and 2012 to …

This paper attempts to cast light on the main principles of the industrial restructuring agreements (crisis cartels …) from a European perspective. For this purpose, I will explore the basic fundamentals of theory of harm concerning the … formation of cartels during economic downturn in specific oligopolistic markets and I will analyse basic characteristics of past …

The main goal of this paper is to empirically test the function of European merger control in light of the 2004 …, enhanced the efficiency of European merger control in the sense that the Commission’s assessments of mergers under the new … not decreased as the result of the new merger control system. To the authors’ best knowledge, this paper is the first …

The main goal of this paper is to provide an analysis of key regulatory changes in the European merger control and to … evaluate their real impact on the efficiency of merger regulation. Our main contribution is an empirical analysis of a unique … merger. The PROBIT model is then used to further investigate the sources of these discrepancies. Our results suggest that the …