Bring in the Whistleblowers and Pay Them The Next Logical Step in Advancing Antitrust Enforcement

Corporate leniency. It is for most countries these days the key foundation to cartel enforcement. Encouraging the wrongdoers to come forward, confess their antitrust transgressions, expose their co-conspirators, and receive absolution or some form of leniency in return. By most accounts, these programs have worked fairly well. Some would argue they have been a game-changer in the fight against cartels. Just look at the record number of enforcement successes across the globe. Most spawned from a