Polish cement industry cartel - preliminary examination of collusion existence

Sylwester Bejger ()
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Sylwester Bejger: Faculty of Economics and Management Nicholas Copernicus University of Torun, Poland

Business and Economic Horizons (BEH), 2011, vol. 4, issue 1, 88-107

Abstract: The paper is devoted to a case of a cartel in Polish cement industry. Short description of the industry and characteristics of the cartel with its fundamental illegal practices, market sharing and price fixing have been done. We focused on examination of possibility of detection of a cartel like behavior of players in an industry on a basis of cartel markers’ evaluation, using statistical data we can actually obtain. On a basis of examination of market shares of players and price/supply processes we found distinctive, theoretically motivated patterns characteristic for collusive equilibrium in an industry.

Keywords: Cartel detection; collusion markers; industry studies; cement market. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L13 L41 L60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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