Sentence examples for that cartels from inspiring English sources

One rule of thumb antitrust economists use is that cartels can achieve overcharges of 20-30%.

This is also a clear message to companies that cartels are not accepted".

Some experts on organized crime in Latin America, like Edgardo Buscaglia, say that cartels earn just half their income from drugs.

Today there is a growing awareness that cartels not only raise prices, but also blunt other benefits of robust competition, from innovation to higher productivity.

Price-fixing can be "horizontal" (among competitors in a particular product) or "vertical" (involving, say, a manufacturer and its dealers).There is agreement on right and left (a few über-libertarians apart) that cartels are bad.

But when foreign producers collude to prevent prices from falling in the face of an oil glut, the administration not only signals its approval but endorses the old, discredited theory that cartels are in consumers' interest.

Joaquín Almunia, the European competition commissioner, insisted Wednesday that cartel fines provided "adequate deterrence".

"The German intention was to break up that cartel of Cyprus," the minister said.

Adcox said it was not surprising that cartel members conducted their activities by email given that such communications are traceable.

This would involve identifying and confiscating not only the funds that the cartels use to conduct their criminal activity, but also the assets that cartel members have purchased with illicit profits: houses, ranches, airplanes, boats, vehicles and otherwise legitimate businesses.

In the study by Messrs Connor and Helmers, the median amount that cartel members overcharged was just over 20% of revenue in affected markets.