Peter L. Ormosi, "A tip of the iceberg? The probability of catching cartels" Journal of Applied Econometrics, forthcomingThe data records firms that were involved in EU-wide cartels and were discovered by the European Commission between 1985-2009. Software MARK was used for the estimation. MARK is an open source statistical application designed for estimating animal population parameters. The software and instruction manuals are available at:http://www.phidot.org/software/mark/download/Data file - cartel_detection.xlsThe data is organised in a n x K matrix, where n is the number of individual colluding firms captured, K is the number of years in the analysis, n=588 and K=26. This capture history matrix records whether an investigation in year K discovered firm n. 1 records captures, 0 records no capture. Row m of the capture history matrix is the capture history of firm m (where m is an element of n). The corresponding names of firms are stored in firm_codes.txt. The columns each represent a year from 1984 to 2009To replicate the result in the paper it is inevitable to acquire some familiarity with MARK. To replicate the estimatesin Section 3.4 open MARK and start a New File. Name the new project and then click on 'Select file' toopen the data. On the LHS select 'Recaptures only' for CJS models. For 'Ecounter occasions' give the number of years (26) and click OK. You can now now set up the same models run for this paper following instructionsin the manual for MARK.