Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/148923
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 17-002
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
We use a dataset of 615 firms which participated in 114 illegal cartels - convicted by the European Commission between 1999 and 2016 - to investigate the determinants of the duration of a firm's participation in a cartel. Applying a Weibull proportional hazard model with a particular focus on the impact of internal and external time-varying determinants, we find that firms show an increased probability to leave a cartel if prior exits occurred as well as in periods of high demand growth. However, we find a reduced exit probability in situations of prior entries to the cartel or in periods of high interest rates. Additional estimations on the cartel level further suggest that firm exits increase the probability of a cartel breakdown substantially.
Subjects: 
Survival Analysis
Cartels
Duration
European Union
JEL: 
C41
K21
L41
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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