Download This PaperRegistered Cartels in Austria – Coding Protocol
25 Pages Posted: 27 Jan 2015
Date Written: November 25, 2014
Abstract
In the period following WW II until the country accessed the European Union, cartels were legalized in Austria, upon registration with the Austrian Cartel Court. We obtained access to the registration data, and scanned them all towards a microeconomic analysis of contracting behavior between firms competing, in principle, in their respective markets. In this paper, we give a detailed account of our procedure of coding the data from the scanned documents.
Keywords: Collusion, legal cartels, contracts
JEL Classification: L410, L430
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Fink, Nikolaus and Schmidt-Dengler, Philipp and Stahl, Konrad O. and Zulehner, Christine, Registered Cartels in Austria – Coding Protocol (November 25, 2014). ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 14-057, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2555458 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2555458
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