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Crime and punishment : when tougher antitrust enforcement leads to higher overcharge

Jensen, Sissel; Kvaløy, Ola; Olsen, Trond E.; Sørgard, Lars
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http://hdl.handle.net/11250/163336
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2013-02
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The economics of crime and punishment postulates that higher

punishment leads to lower crime levels, or less severe crime. It is

however hard to get empirical support for this intuitive relationship.

This paper offers a model that contributes to explain why this is the

case. We show that if criminals can spend resources to reduce the

probability of being detected, then a higher general punishment level

can increase the crime level. In the context of antitrust enforcement, it

is shown that competition authorities who attempt to ght cartels by

means of tougher sanctions for all offenders may actually lead cartels

to increase their overcharge when leniency programs are in place.
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Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Economics
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Discussion paper;4/2013

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