Prosecution and Leniency Programs: a Fool's Game
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Keywords
Antitrust law and policy; Cartels; Collusion; Self-reporting;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
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2010-10-02 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-CTA-2010-10-02 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-IND-2010-10-02 (Industrial Organization)
- NEP-LAW-2010-10-02 (Law and Economics)
- NEP-REG-2010-10-02 (Regulation)
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