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Título: Who blows the whistle on cartels?: finding the leniency applicant at the European Commission
Autores/as: Jiménez González, Juan Luis 
Ojeda Cabral,Manuel Alejandro 
Ordóñez de Haro, José Manuel
Clasificación UNESCO: 5309 Organización industrial y políticas gubernamentales
Palabras clave: Cartels
European Commission
Leniency Programs
Fecha de publicación: 2023
Publicación seriada: Review of Industrial Organization 
Resumen: Competition authorities need a better understanding of the determinants of cartel self-reporting in order to increase cartel members’ incentives to apply for the benefit from leniency programs and thus improve the effectiveness of anti-cartel policy. Using information on 683 firm groups that participated in 132 cartels that were penalized by the European Commission between 1996 and 2020, we estimate which type of cartel member is most likely to be the first or subsequent leniency applicant. Our results emphasize the role of firm groups as a driver to self-report: The higher is the proportion of firms that are part of the same group (relative to the size of the cartel), the greater is the likelihood of applying for leniency. Fines also incentivize cartelists—with the exceptions of ringleaders—to self-report. While ringleaders or instigators tend to avoid being first confessors, they appear to be more likely to self-report than are others only after someone else has revealed the cartel. Finally, cartels that do bid-rigging are less likely to be uncovered by a leniency application.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/124273
ISSN: 0889-938X
DOI: 10.1007/s11151-023-09911-3
Fuente: Review of Industrial Organization[ISSN 0889-938X], (Enero 2023)
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