Endogenous Cartel Organization and Antitrust Fine Discrimination
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- Tim Reuter, 2017. "Endogenous Cartel Organization and Antitrust Fine Discrimination," Review of Industrial Organization, Springer;The Industrial Organization Society, vol. 51(3), pages 291-313, November.
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Keywords
cartel organization; antitrust enforcement; trade association; marginal deterrence;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- K21 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - Antitrust Law
- K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
- L41 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2013-05-19 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-HME-2013-05-19 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-LAW-2013-05-19 (Law and Economics)
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