Criminalization of Cartels and Leniency: An Exercise in Complexity

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Marcelo Calliari, Sep 16, 2015

What change a decade brings. Ten years ago the calls for a spread of leniency policies were undisputed. Their success in detecting cartels in a few jurisdictions, notably the United States and the European Union, seemed to justify the expectation that their adoption by more and more countries would only improve enforcement and desincentivize cartels worldwide. A little less undisputed, but with simi