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Private Enforcement Against International Cartels In Latin America: A Us Perspective, Daniel A. Crane Jan 2009

Private Enforcement Against International Cartels In Latin America: A Us Perspective, Daniel A. Crane

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A recent empirical study estimates that from 1990 to the end of 2005, 283 private international cartels were discovered and that the overcharges from these cartels totaled $500 billion. Estimates of the percentage of all detected cartels range from one in six or seven to one in 10. If the one in 10 number is correct, that would mean that overcharges from international cartels in the last 15 years were $5 trillion, or about $330 billion per year. Even assuming that the detection rate is higher today due to the success of the US Justice Department's leniency program and stepped …