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Leniency and Damages

Giancarlo Spagnolo, Paolo Buccirossi and Catarina Marvao ()

No 10682, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: Damage actions may reduce the attractiveness of leniency programs for cartel participants if their cooperation with the competition authority increases the chance that the cartel?s victims will bring a successful suit. A long legal debate culminated in an EU directive, adopted in November 2014, which seeks a balance between public and private enforcement. It protects the effectiveness of a leniency program by preventing the use of leniency statements in subsequent actions for damages. Our analysis shows such compromise is not required: limiting the cartel victims? ability to recover their loss is not necessary to preserve the effectiveness of a leniency program and may be counterproductive. We show that damage actions will actually improve its effectiveness, through a legal regime in which the civil liability of the immunity recipient is minimized and full access to all evidence collected by the competition authority, is granted to claimants, like in the US.

Keywords: Private and public enforcement; Cartels; Competition policy; Leniency program (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C73 D43 D81 H11 K21 K42 L13 L44 L51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-06
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