In this issue: Cartel detection is a must for competition practitioners to understand. Our comprehensive issue, organized by guest editor Rosa Abrantes-Metz, starts by reviewing the features of international cartels…

Jose C M Berardo, Barbara Rosenberg, Sep 28, 2011 During the last decade Brazil, as well as few other Latin American countries, have taken great steps to improve the enforcement…

John M. Connor, Sep 28, 2011 In the old days-before price-fixing became illegal nearly everywhere-cartels operated in the public sphere. In some cases, the formation of a new cartel would…

Donald Klawiter, Sep 28, 2011 International cartel enforcement is the centerpiece of the antitrust world today and is certainly a subject of concern and anxiety for corporate boards and executives…

Rick Dumas-Eymard, Gordon Schnell, Sep 27, 2011 Perhaps it can be traced back to 1879, when Eugen Richter, a member of the German Parliament, stood in the Reichstag and, borrowing…

Daniel Sokol, Sep 28, 2011 In the past few years, companies around the world have spent an increasing amount of resources addressing issues broadly classified as compliance. In the area…

ICNKai Huschelrath, Ulrich Laitenberger, Sep 28, 2011 These days, the fight against hard-core cartels is ranked high on the agenda of many competition authorities around the world. The recent efforts…

Rosa Abrantes-Metz, Sep 28, 2011 Over the last few years, economic analysis in general, and empirical screens in particular, have become increasingly important in cases of conspiracies and manipulations, a…