A TIP OF THE ICEBERG? THE PROBABILITY OF CATCHING CARTELS (replication data)

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Reliable estimates of crime detection probabilities could help in designing better sanctions and improve our understanding of the efficiency of law enforcement. For cartels, we only have limited knowledge on the rate at which these illegal practices are discovered. In comparison to previous works, this paper offers a more parsimonious and simple-to-use method to estimate time-dependent cartel discovery rates, while allowing for heterogeneity across firms. It draws on capture-recapture methods that are frequently used in ecology to make inferences on various wildlife population characteristics. An application of this method provides evidence that less than a fifth of cartelising firms are discovered.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.15456/jae.2022321.0714780921
Metadata Access https://www.da-ra.de/oaip/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai:oai.da-ra.de:775655
Provenance
Creator Ormosi, Peter L.
Publisher ZBW - Leibniz Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
Publication Year 2014
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY); Download
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Contact ZBW - Leibniz Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
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Language English
Resource Type Collection
Discipline Economics; Social and Behavioural Sciences