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Cartel

A cartel is a group of independent market participants who collaborate with each other and avoid competing with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the market. They seek to limit competition, fix prices, and increase prices by creating artificial shortages through low production quotas, stockpiling, and marketing quotas. Cartel…

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Cartel theory versus antitrust concept

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Cartel

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Triples290
Avg. degree1.98
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Cartel

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related to Bibliography · 84
Cartel → Action, Aktiengesellschaften, American Economic Review, Analysis, Antitrust, Beginn, Cartels, Chapel Hill, Concerns, Connor, Dale, Die Kartelle, Economic Literature, Effectiveness, Ein Beitrag, Ervin, Export Cartels, Fear, Formation, Frage
related to Examples · 64
Cartel → Achnacarry Agreement, Aluminium Association, American, Anaconda Copper Mines, Belgium, Between, Bolivia, Bor, Braden Copper Company, Brazil, British, CIPEC, Colombia, Compagnie, Convention, Copper Exporting Countries, During, English, ETEC, European
related to Types · 27
Cartel → Agreement, Cartels, CAU, Common, Compulsory, Condition, Contact, Domestic, French, If, II, Occupational, Price, Quota, Selling, Standardization, Submission, Technology, Territorial, The
related to Cartel theory versus antitrust concept · 20
Cartel → American, At, Austrian, Competition, Friedrich Kleinwächter, German-speaking, Harley, In, It, Kilgore, Recent, The, The American, The Sherman, These, This, Thurman Arnold, United States, Washington, World War II
related to history · 20
Cartel → Alaun, Although, Around, Austria-Hungary, Both, Cartels, Common Sales Society, Europe, European Middle Ages, France, Guilds, Laissez-faire, Middle Ages, Naples, North America, Papal State, Societas Communis Vendicionis, The German Empire, Tightly, United States
related to Etymology · 14
Cartel → Austro-Hungarian, English, French, From, German, German Kartell, In English, In Middle French, It, Italian, Latin, Lorenz, Stein, The
related to Legislation and penalties · 11
Cartel → Because, Before, Europe, German-speaking, In, National Lead Co, Prior, Supreme Court, United States, Very, World War II
has effect · 10
Cartel → An, In, Less, Many, Once, OPEC, Private, Publicly, This, Within
related to Organization · 10
Cartel → Alibaba, Amazon, Comparatively, Drawing, Even, However, IndiaMart, The, They, This
related to Leniency programmes · 9
Cartel → According, Australian Department, Division, Justice, Leniency, The, The Division, US, Where

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cartels price international prices market production economic industry members competition states also markets agreement organization first countries century united antitrust

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Cartelis agroup of independent market participants who collaborate with each other and avoid competing with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the market0.90text
corporate mergersinstance ofCartels are distinguished from other forms of collusion or anti-competitive organization0.80text
Nazi Germanyinstance ofauthoritarian regimes0.80text
Italy under Mussoliniinstance ofauthoritarian regimes0.80text
and Spain under Franco used cartels to organize their corporatist economiesinstance ofauthoritarian regimes0.80text
price wars or financial punishmentinstance ofMany cartels that attempt to set product prices are unsuccessful in the long term because of cheating punishment mechanisms0.80text
price changes alongside import ratesinstance ofIndicators0.80text
market concentrationinstance ofIndicators0.80text
time period of permanent price changesinstance ofIndicators0.80text
stability of companies' market shares are used as economic markers to help supplement the search for cartel behaviourinstance ofIndicators0.80text
Cartelhas effectPrivate0.60section
Cartelhas effectLess0.60section

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