How strong is the case for criminal sanctions in cartel cases?

Criminalization of Competition Law Enforcement: Economic and Legal Implications for the EU Member States

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 110-132

  Reindl, Andreas P ^a  

^a OECD's Competition Division   (France)

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