Economic Dimensions of EU Cartels, Detected by the EC in 1990-2017: Food and Agriculture Markets

<p>The Private International Cartels (PIC) Data Set is the largest repository of legal-economic information on contemporary price-fixing cartels. The total sample encompasses 1305 private hard-core cartels that were discovered between January 1990 and December 2017. This spreadsheet of covers cartels <i>not</i> in food and agriculture industries detected by the European Commission (EC) between 1990 and 2017. Each cartel had participants with headquarters in two or more Member States of the EU. The second spreadsheet (<span class="item-title" id="file-62740">Private Intl Cartels Table A11 PURR 2020-01-09.xlsx</span>) lists legal information on each member of the cartel, such as dates of litigation, the company names, executives’ names, and the penalties levelled against the cartelists by all of the world’s antitrust authorities. The sample is believed to be a reasonably complete list of all discovered contemporary private international cartels in jurisdictions that have a well maintained antitrust-authority Web sites. The dataset documents the global size, economic impacts, and anti-cartel enforcement of contemporary private international cartels and the world’s antitrust authorities and national courts (excluding appeals). The sample is believed to be a reasonably complete list of all discovered contemporary private international cartels in jurisdictions that have a well maintained antitrust-authority Web sites. Government or private legal actions (i.e., formal investigations, damages suits, fines, or consent decrees) are recorded up to August 2019. Monetary data are expressed in nominal U.S. dollars, using exchange rates during the cartel’s life or the day a legal action was announced.</p>