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Lower sanctions, greater antitrust compliance? Cartel conduct with imperfect information about enforcement risk

This article provides a model of two risk-neutral firms that may cooperate to achieve a goal that is potentially illegal. The model assumes enforcement risk and firms that are imperfectly informed about antitrust law enforcement. It is shown that compliance training, which educates the agents about law enforcement, may prevent hardcore cartels. Compliance training programs may also promote forms of cooperation that are beneficial for customers. The article shows that a competition authority can sometimes spur the implementation of compliance programs by imposing lower sanctions on wrongdoers.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics ; No. 60-2014

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Antitrust Law
Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Paha, Johannes
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Philipps-University Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics
(wo)
Marburg
(wann)
2014

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Paha, Johannes
  • Philipps-University Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics

Entstanden

  • 2014

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