Estimating damages from price-fixing: The value of transaction data

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We use a unique private data set of about 340,000 invoice positions from 36 smaller and larger customers of German cement producers to study the value of such transaction data for an estimation of cartel damages. In particular, we investigate, first, how structural break analysis can be used to identify the exact end of the cartel agreement and, second, how an application of before-and-after approaches to estimate the price overcharge can benefit from such rich data sets. We conclude that transaction data allows such a detailed assessment of the cartel and its impact on direct customers that its regular application in private antitrust cases is desired as long as data collection and preparation procedures are not prohibitively expensive.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 12-036

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft
• Thema: antitrust policy ; private enforcement ; cartels ; overcharge ; damages ; cement ; Zementindustrie ; Kartell ; Zement ; Preis ; Umsatz ; Soziale Kosten ; Schätzung ; Deutschland

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Hüschelrath, Kai ; Müller, Kathrin ; Veith, Tobias
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
• (wo): Mannheim
• (wann): 2012

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/59525
• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-323181
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ