Discovering Cartels: Dynamic Interrelationships between Civil and Criminal Antitrust Investigations
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Keywords
Cartels; Antitrust Enforcement; Prosecution; Business Cycles;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L00 - Industrial Organization - - General - - - General
- L40 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - General
- B00 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - General - - - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches
- K21 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - Antitrust Law
- M20 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Economics - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2007-11-03 (Industrial Competition)
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