Keyword: price fixing

Cleaning Up the Detergent Market (1/25/2012)

A cartel in detergents broke up over defections from agreed prices and promotion practices.

Keywords: antitrust, cartel, commodity, detergent, oligopoly, price collusion, price fixing, prisoner's dilemma, promotion

Riskless Insurance (2/27/2007)

Regulatory protection has led to legal price fixing in the title insurance oligopoly at the expense of home buyers.

Keywords: kickbacks, mortgage lenders, oligopoly, premium, price fixing, rebate, regulation, title insurance, title search

Too Much Vitamin C? (6/22/2006)

Legacy habit of central planning has led to antitrust charges against Chinese vitamin C oligopoly.

Keywords: antitrust, cartel, price fixing, regulation, vitamin C

Vitamin Inc. (3/22/2005)

Mature oligopoly with a few large producers of homogeneous commodities is driven to output and price fixing to increase their profit.

Keywords: antitrust, BASF, cartel, commodities, homogeneous products, Justice Department, lysine, oligopoly, price fixing, Rhone-Poulenc, Roche, vitamin