How cartels endure and how they fail: studies of industrial collusion

Abstract

Introduction: What Do We Mean by Cartel Success? 1. Studies of Cartel Stability: A Comparison of Methodological Approaches 2. Decreasing Average Cost and Competition: A New Look at the Addyston Pipe Case 3. The Stability of Ocean Shipping Cartels 4. Why One Cartel Fails and Another Endures: The Joint Executive Committee and the Railroad Express 5. A Practice without Defenders: The Price Effects of Cartelization 6. If Cartels Were Legal, When Would Firms Fix Prices? 7. The Difference Government Policy Makes: The Case of Japan 8. Political Constraints on Government Cartelization: The Case of Oil Production Regulation in Texas and Saudi Arabia 9. International Commodity Agreements as Internationally Sanctioned Cartels 10. Response to Decline in the Western European Synthetic Fibre Industry: An Investigation of a Crisis Cartel 11. Collaborate to Collude? Multimarket and Multiproject Contact in R&D Index