How cartels endure and how they fail : studies of industrial collusion / edited by Peter Z. Grossman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What do we mean by cartel success? / Peter Z. Grossman -- Studies of cartel stability : a comparison of methodological approaches / Margaret C. Levenstein and Valerie Y. Suslow -- Decreasing average cost and competition : a new look at the Addyston Pipe case / George Bittlingmayer -- Stability of ocean shipping cartels / William Sjostrom -- Why one cartel fails and another endures : the Joint Executive Committee and the Railroad Express / Peter Z. Grossman -- Practice without defenders : the price effects of cartelization / Janice Rye Kinghorn and Randall Nielsen -- If cartels were legal, when would firms fix prices? / Andrew R. Dick -- Difference government policy makes : the case of Japan / Mark Tilton -- Political constraints on government cartelization : the case of oil production regulation in Texas and Saudi Arabia / Gary D. Libecap and James L. Smith -- International commodity agreements as internationally sanctioned cartels / Christopher L. Gilbert -- Response to decline in the Western European synthetic fibre industry : an investigation of a crisis cartel / P. Simpson -- Collaborate to collude? Multimarket and multiproject contact in R&D / Nicholas S. Vonortas and Yongsuk Jang.