buyers have heterogeneous storage technologies, periodic sales may facilitate collusion by magnifying intertemporal linking …

Tacit collusion is explored under a strategy in which, loosely speaking, firms match the lowest price set by any firm …

collusion. It may even make it sustainable in all markets when otherwise it would not be sustainable in any. The effects of …

collusion. It may even make it sustainable in all markets when otherwise it would not be sustainable in any. The effects of …

collusion game. Consistent with the existing literature on communication and collusion, even minimal communication leads to a … short run increase in collusion. However, in a limited message-space treatment where subjects cannot communicate contingent … strategies, this initial burst of collusion rapidly collapses. When unlimited pre-game communication is allowed via a chat window …

critical discount factor required to sustain collusion. This result is shown to hold for Cournot oligopoly as well as for … Bertrand oligopoly when collusion is sustained with Nash-reversion strategies or optimal-punishment strategies. In a Cournot …

linked to illegal gains and detection probabilities depend on the degree of collusion. A novel aspect of this study is that …