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Quality-Improving R&D and Semi-Collusive Production Cartel in Differentiated Duopoly

Ouchida, Yasunori - 2017

This paper presents an examination of whether an antitrust authority should prohibit a quantity-setting duopolists' semi-collusive production cartel after noncooperative quality-improving R&D. Results show that values of the technological spillover and product differentiation parameters exist...

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A note on consumer flexibility, data quality and collusion

Hasnas, Irina - 2014

In this note we analyze the sustainability of collusion in a game of repeated interaction where firms can price … improvement in data quality it is more difficult to sustain collusion. …

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Oligopoly as a socially embedded dilemma: An experiment

Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2011

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Oligopoly as a Socially Embedded Dilemma : An Experiment

Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2011

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Leniency Inflation, Cartel Damages and Criminalization

Marvão, Catarina M. P.; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2021

We revisit the pros and cons of cartel criminalization with focus on its possible introduction in the EU. We document a recent phenomenon that we name EU ``leniency inflation", whereby leniency has been increasingly awarded to many, and sometimes all members of a cartel. We argue that, coupled...

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Actions Speak Louder than Words : econometric evidence to target tacit collusion in oligopolistic markets

Andreoli Versbach, Patrick; Franck, Jens-Uwe - 2013

Tacit collusion reduces welfare comparably to explicit collusion but remains mostly unaddressed by antitrust … that facilitate tacit collusion by providing quantitative evidence that links these actions to an anticompetitive market … about collusion. …

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Oligopoly as a socially embedded dilemma : an experiment

Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2011

is highest if only the competitor(s) is (are) loyal to the cartel. Yet collusion inflicts harm on the opposite market … we add beliefs as a control variable, we only find that externalities enhance cooperation, even if gains from collusion … expected. -- Oligopoly ; Collusion ; experiment ; Uncertainty ; negative externalities ; prisoner's dilemma …

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How Resale Price Maintenance and Loss Leading affect Upstream Cartel Stability : Anatomy of a Coffee Cartel

Rickert, Dennis; Holler, Emanuel - 2022

We study empirically the price effects of upstream cartels that sell through downstream retailers to final consumers. We focus on a German coffee producer cartel that colluded under two different regimes: (i) involving wholesale prices in 2003 and (ii) with additional resale price maintenance...

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Collusion and durability

Strausz, Roland; Sasaki, Dan - 2008

-monotonic in the number of firms; 4) a regulator may demand inefficiently high levels of durability to prevent collusion. …

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Is the "smoke-filled room" necessary? : an experimental study of the effect of communication networks on collusion

Flannery, Timothy; Wang, Siyu - In: Southern economic journal 89 (2023) 4, pp. 1056-1077

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