Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/180150 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
BGPE Discussion Paper No. 171
Publisher: 
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics (BGPE), Nürnberg
Abstract: 
Anti-trust infringers are liable jointly and severally, i.e., any offender may be sued and forced to compensate a victim on behalf of all. EU law then grants the singled-out firm a right to internal redress: all infringers are obliged to contribute in proportion to their relative responsibility for the victim's harm. We operationalize this for hardcore cartels. Responsibility is inferred from how much lower damages could have been, had one or more offenders refused to collaborate. This calls for applying the Shapley value to a model of overcharges. Resulting allocations are characterized for selected market environments and compared to ad hoc distributions based on market shares or profits. A new decomposition of the Shapley value helps to establish bounds on payment obligations.
Subjects: 
cartel damages
damage allocation
Shapley value
joint liability
relative responsibility
rule of contribution
JEL: 
L40
L13
D04
D43
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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