Blowing the Whistle

Jose Apesteguia (), Martin Dufwenberg and Reinhard Selten

No 303, Documentos de Trabajo - Lan Gaiak Departamento de Economía - Universidad Pública de Navarra from Departamento de Economía - Universidad Pública de Navarra

Abstract: Leniency clauses, offering cartelists legal immunity if they blow the whistle on each other, is a recent anti-trust innovation. The authorities wish to thwart cartels and promote competition. This effect is not evident, however; whistle-blowing may enforce trust and collusion by providing a tool for cartelists to punish each other. We examine the impact of leniency law, and other rules, theoretically and experimentally.

Keywords: Anti-trust; leniency; immunity; amnesty; blow the whistle; cartels; price competition; Bertrand model; experiment; communication. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C92 D43 L13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp
Date: 2003, Revised 2003
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations View citations in EconPapers (8) Track citations by RSS feed

Published in

Downloads: (external link)
ftp://ftp.econ.unavarra.es/pub/DocumentosTrab/DT0303.PDF (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Blowing the Whistle (2007)
Working Paper: Blowing the Whistle (2003)
Working Paper: Blowing the Whistle (2003)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nav:ecupna:0303

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
Papers are not sent in a centralized mode. You can download them with ftp, or contact the authors.

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Documentos de Trabajo - Lan Gaiak Departamento de Economía - Universidad Pública de Navarra from Departamento de Economía - Universidad Pública de Navarra
Address: Campus de Arrosadía - 31006 Pamplona (Spain)
Series data maintained by Javier Puértolas ().