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For criminal violations of the Sherman Act, although guided by federal sentencing guidelines, the U.S. Department of Justice has great latitude in recommending corporate cartel fines to the federal courts, [...]

A number of countries, including Australia, have recently drastically increased the sanctions available for cartel conduct, on the assumption that businesses make decisions about their regulatory compliance behavior on the [...]

On May 2, 2007, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) arrested eight foreign executives in Houston, Texas, in relation to alleged cartel conduct in the market for supply of [...]

With the effectiveness of the revision of the Swiss Cartel Act on April 1, 2004, the Competition Commission (the COMCO) gained considerable new powers, especially the power to sanction anticompetitive [...]

The United States applies a diverse array of tools and sanctions to deter and detect cartels. Because cartel activity is treated as a serious crime, a formidable array of criminal [...]

The extent of individual accountability for cartel conduct in the United States, as elsewhere, may be more limited than some might have one believe. The chances are that individuals responsible [...]

This article compares the level of fines actually imposed on cartel participants to the illicit gains captured by the firms and estimates a range of optimal restitution and dissuasive fines [...]

Crisis cartels are likely to appear in industries where production facilities are durable and specialized and consumer demand falls due to adverse market conditions. A number of antitrust statutes incorporate [...]

I. INTRODUCTION Whereas a number of lawyers and economists in the past adopted the opinion that cartel enforcement policy was too lax in Europe, it is now certainly much stricter. [...]

I. Introduction The objective of this article is to analyze competition policy in Switzerland. We consider several benchmarks against which the policy will be analyzed. First, we will, to the [...]