Penalizing cartels—a spectrum of regimes
Date
03/10/2019Metadata
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Abstract
There has been much discussion by both academics and policymakers of the most appropriate way of penalizing cartels taking account of both the effects of different penalty regimes on welfare as well as various implementation considerations such as ease/cost of implementation and transparency/legal certainty. Consequently there now exists a range of proposed penalty regimes—including two put forward by ourselves. While these can all seem like very distinct regimes, in this article we show that they can usefully be thought of as lying along a spectrum, inter-connected by the idea of trying to penalize cartels in relation to the damage they cause. They differ in their informational requirements, and in particular whether some key factors needed to calculate the penalty are case-specific or an average across a wide range of cases. Subtle differences in what information is required and how it is used can sometimes cause significant changes in either the welfare or implementation properties of regimes. This new perspective may provide a helpful way of organizing the discussion about the pros and cons of the different proposals.
Citation
Katsoulacos , Y , Motchenkova , E & Ulph , D 2019 , ' Penalizing cartels—a spectrum of regimes ' , Journal of Antitrust Enforcement , vol. 7 , no. 3 , pp. 339-351 . https://doi.org/10.1093/jaenfo/jnz013
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Journal of Antitrust Enforcement
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
2050-0696Type
Journal article
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1093/jaenfo/jnz013
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