Tag: Cartels
Cartel Enforcement and Challenges in Europe
The European Commission has in recent times adopted a number of decisions and imposed significant fines against cartels. The landscape of cartel enforcement is,...
Developing More Vigorous Anti-cartel Enforcement by Promoting Deterrence
In spite of the many successes in the fight against cartels, enforcement is likely to be suboptimal because competition authorities systematically underdeter cartel formation....
UK Public Procurement – Increasing Risks for Cartel Participants
Risks are increasing for those involved in cartel activity in the UK and in particular bid-rigging in public procurement. The UK Government has recently...
Artificial Intelligence Teaches Itself to Collude? What Increasingly Sophisticated AI Could...
The availability of big data and increasing sophistication of algorithms and artificial intelligence has had an evolving impact on strategic decision-making across sectors. Pricing...
The EU’s Draft Horizontal Guidelines: Chilling Innovation on Sustainability?
By Jay Modrall1
In response to demand from customers, investors, employees and other stakeholders, as well as new legal requirements, businesses face huge pressure...
Lodge: Old and New Questions About the Analysis of Cartels in...
By Dr Mark Berry1
I. Introduction
Cartel cases under Part 2 of the Commerce Act 1986 (NZ) (“the Act”)2 have, not surprisingly, dominated the restrictive trade...
Does a Drop in Cartel Decisions Highlight Shifting Patterns of Engagement...
By Wouter Meester and Daniel Westrik1
The withdrawal of a cartel case brought against Citigroup and Deutsche Bank in last February came as a surprise...
Identifying the Bottom Line: What Guides the Imposition of Antitrust Penalties...
By Anisha Chand & Alisha Mehra1
With the ebbing of the pandemic’s second wave, the Indian competition authority (Competition Commission of India (“CCI”)) is back...
The Morality of Cartel Activity
By Andreas Stephan (University of East Anglia)
This chapter examines the extent to which cartel activity is morally wrongful and the resultant implications for cartel...
Antitrust Chronicle® – Buyer Cartels
Dear Readers,
The cardinal sin under antitrust rules is a conspiracy to fix prices. Competition legislation throughout the world therefore universally sets out, as its...
