That is, it is not surprising to see researchers erect "citation cartels" with the specific aim to artificially increase their impact factor.
Due to competition regulations, any kind of coalition must be based on the commitment of companies to contribute to specific issues on an individual basis to avoid cartel accusation.
When managed exchange rates, industry and even company-specific tax breaks and cartels distort markets, it is not protectionist to seek remedies.
A: Near the beginning of the film, Reiner explains to The Counselor a very specific way people are murdered by a particular drug cartel.
He also described the alleged smugglers and distributors arrested in the sweeps as "mercenary transportation groups" who worked for multiple cartels, rather than operating as arms of specific gangs.
The situation in Chilapa reflects the persistent problems with Mexico's US-backed war against powerful drug cartels: Armed, organized, criminal groups with firm local bases of power and influence exert control over a specific territory, and fight back against incursions, or submit to an invading outside cartel.
According to Thompson, the Sinaloa cartel has always operated as a loose federation of organizations under specific leaders who share information, government and police support, and trafficking routes.
In what follows, the focus is on competitive markets, leaving aside the specific problems (in particular unequal market power) of non-competitive markets such as monopolies or cartels.
In addition, some Mexican drug gangs, like Colombian cartels before them, have organized themselves into networks of smaller, semiautonomous units responsible for specific tasks like building false compartments in cars or obtaining the chemicals to make synthetic drugs, officials say.
"These participants in these cartels were fully aware of the illegal nature of their activities, and they often took specific measures to try to conceal their behavior," said Joaquín Almunia, the European Union competition commissioner.
