Global Price Fixing

• Main Author: Connor, John M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Studies in Industrial Organization, 26
• Subjects: Industrial organization.; International economics.; Law and economics.; Economics.; Industrial Organization.; Law and Economics.; International Economics.

The book describes and analyzes the formation, operation, and impacts of modern global cartels. It provides a broad picture of the economics, competition law and history of international price fixing. A deeper understanding of the phenomenon is afforded by intensive case studies of collusion in the...

Table of Contents:

• The Economics of Price Fixing
• Anticartel Laws and Enforcement
• The Citric Acid Industry
• The Citric Acid Conspiracy
• Economic Impacts of the Citric Acid Cartel
• The World Lysine Industry
• The Lysine Conspiracy
• Economic Effects of the Lysine Cartel
• The Global Vitamins Industries
• The Vitamins Conspiracies
• Effects of the Vitamins Cartels
• U.S. Government Prosecutions
• Antitrust Prosecutions Outside the United States
• The Civil Suits
• The Business of Fighting Cartels
• Global Price Fixing: Summing Up.