Cartels Destroy Productivity: Evidence from the New Deal Sugar Manufacturing Cartel, 1934-74
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Keywords
Cartels; Quota; Monopoly;JEL classification:
- L6 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing
- L00 - Industrial Organization - - General - - - General
- L43 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Legal Monopolies and Regulation or Deregulation
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2015-12-01 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-EFF-2015-12-01 (Efficiency & Productivity)
- NEP-IND-2015-12-01 (Industrial Organization)
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