The dynamics of leniency application and the knock-on effect of cartel enforcement. Bruegel Working Paper 2016/02, February 2016

The authors study the timing of leniency applications using a novel application of multi-spell discrete-time survival analysis for a sample of cartels prosecuted by the European Commission between 1996 and 2014. The start of a Commission investigation does not affect the rate by which conspirators apply for leniency in the market investigated, but increases the rate of application in separate markets in which a conspirator in the investigated market also engaged in collusion. The revision of the Commission’s leniency programme in 2002 increased the rate of pre-investigation applications. Our results shed light on enforcement efforts against cartels and other forms of

Europe and the refugees: a crisis of values. EPC Commentary, June 20 2016

20 June is World Refugee Day. This offers an opportunity for the European Union (EU) and its members to reflect on how the EU’s approach towards the current crisis is having an impact on its cohesion and image.

Performance of historic stone building materials and systems : observations by architects, engineers and building conservators : excerpts from workshop discussions held on August 10, 1987, funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Cultural Resources Acid Rain Research Program.

"June 1988."

NATO and the economic recession : report of Dan Quayle to the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate.

Mode of access: Internet.

The American farrier; containing a minute account of the formation of every part of the horse, with a desription of all the diseases to which each part is liable; the best remedies to be applied, and the most approved mode of treatment for preventing disorders: acompanied with a list of medicines.

Mode of access: Internet.

Excavations at Nuzi conducted by the Semitic Museum and the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, with the coöperation of the American School of Oriental Research at Bagdad.

Mode of access: Internet.

Report to the F.T.C. on the use of automatic fuel adjustment clauses and the fuel procurement practices of investor-owned electric utilities.

Primary authors: Michele F. Crown, L. Jorn Dakin, and Douglas W. Webbink.