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On collusion sustainability and the elasticity of substitution

Escrihuela-Villar, Marc - 2026

We analyze the relationship between collusion sustainability in an infinitely repeated game using trigger strategies and the elasticity of substitution. To this end, we adopt a demand function with constant elasticity of substitution between the differentiated goods. Since our model exhibits a...

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Algorithmic "collusion" and the application of article 101 TFEU : can an agreement exists without a concurrence of wills?

Oliveira e Costa, Guilherme - 2026

Algorithms pose interesting challenges to competition law, particularly discussing which practices involving this fast-paced technologies may or should be caught under Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union ("TFEU"). As AI-driven pricing algorithms become increasingly...

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Collusion in the polluted river problem

Alvarez-Mozos, Mikel; Brink, René van den; … - 2026

We study the effects of collusion in the polluted river problem. In this model, agents along a river network have to share the costs of cleaning the entire river. We define a collusion neutrality property which requires that, if all agents upstream of a given point agree to collude and act as...

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Competition and collusion with strategic inventories

Ashfaq, Marium; Toxvaerd, Flavio; Wei, Yi - 2026

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Competition and collusion with strategic inventories

Ashfaq, Marium; Toxvaerd, Flavio; Wei, Yi - 2026

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Killing competition - cartel expansion through acquisitions

Reis, Daniel; Lucinda, Cláudio Ribeiro - 2025

This paper examines how the Brazilian ready-mix concrete cartel expanded through mergers and acquisitions. Specifically, we investigate whether cartel firms strategically acquired non-aligned competitors to optimize market dominance, eliminate competition and sustain collusive behavior.Using...

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Insider collusion as a threat to property rights : experimental evidence from West Africa

Arruñada, Benito; Fabbri, Marco; Nosenzo, Daniele; … - 2025

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Insider collusion as a threat to property rights : experimental evidence from West Africa

Arruñada, Benito; Fabbri, Marco; Nosenzo, Daniele; … - 2025

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An empirical inquiry into cartel overcharges and cartel fines including an assessment of the EU's guidelines on cartel fines and damages

Haucap, Justus; Karaçuka, Mehmet; Inke, Hakan - 2025

Utilizing Connor's International Cartel Database and employing difference-in-differences methodology, we find that market concentration, the number of buyers and cartel duration have significant impacts on cartel overcharges. We also find that the European Commission's 2006 guidelines on the...

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An empirical inquiry into cartel overcharges and cartel fines including an assessment of the EU's guidelines on cartel fines and damages

Haucap, Justus; Karaçuka, Mehmet; Inke, Hakan - 2025

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Finance and collusion in oligopolistic markets

Marjit, Sugata; Mukherjee, Arijit; Xu, Xinpeng; Yang, Lei - 2025

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Collusion in bidding markets : the case of the French public transport industry

Gagnepain, Philippe; Martimort, David - 2025

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Collusion in bidding markets : the case of the French public transport industry

Gagnepain, Philippe; Martimort, David - 2025

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How the design of cartel fines affects prices : evidence from the lab

Engilbertsson, Sindri; Onderstal, Sander; Treuren, Leonard - 2025

Competition authorities impose substantial penalties on firms engaging in illegal pricefixing. We examine how basing cartel fines on either revenue, profit, or price overcharge influences cartel and market prices, as well as cartel incidence and stability. In an infinitely repeated Bertrand...

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The determinants of cartel duration in Brazil

Silveira, Paulo Burnier da - 2025

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Complementary bidding and cartel detection : evidence from Nordic asphalt markets

Aaltio, Aapo; Buri, Riku; Jokelainen, Antto; Lundberg, Johan - 2025

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Complementary bidding and cartel detection : evidence from Nordic asphalt markets

Aaltio, Aapo; Buri, Riku; Jokelainen, Antto; Lundberg, Johan - 2023

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Complementary Bidding and Cartel Detection : Evidence from Nordic Asphalt Markets

Aaltio, Aapo; Buri, Riku; Jokelainen, Antto; Lundberg, Johan - 2023

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Firms' legality and efficiency : evidence from public procurement

Iossa, Elisabetta; Latour, Chiara - 2025

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On head-to-head results as tie-breaker and consequent opportunities for collusion

Csató, László - 2025

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Cartel stability with quality-anchored buyers

Bos, Iwan; Cesi, Berardino; Marini, Marco - 2025

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Public communication and collusion : new screening tools for competition authorities

Duso, Tomaso; Harrington, Joseph Emmett; Kreuzberg, Carl; … - 2025

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Public communication and collusion : new screening tools for competition authorities

Duso, Tomaso; Harrington, Joseph Emmett; Kreuzberg, Carl; … - 2025

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Public communication and collusion : new screening tools for competition authorities

Duso, Tomaso; Harrington, Joseph Emmett; Kreuzberg, Carl; … - 2025

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Public communication and collusion : new screening tools for competition authorities

Duso, Tomaso; Harrington, Joseph Emmett; Kreuzberg, Carl; … - 2025

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Cartelization and expected crash risk : evidence from global leniency laws

Wang, Dongyue; Kim, Jeong-bon; Lu, Louise Yi; Yu, Yangxin - 2025

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Fuel, fear, and fault : mass media and cartel criticism during the German coal crisis of 1900

Yajima, Shaun - 2025

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Detection of collusive networks in multistage auctions

Baránek, Bruno; Musolff, Leon; Titl, Vitezslav - 2025

We develop a method for detecting cartels in multistage auctions. Our approach allows a firm to be collusive when facing members of its cartel yet competitive when facing others. Intuitively, as initial bids are shaded, close initial bids not only imply similar costs but also provide an...

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Analyzing collusion using set-identified marginal cost functions

Mizuta, Seiichiro; Nishiwaki, Masato - 2025

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Brewing cooperation : the inner workings of the Norwegian and Swedish beer cartels, 1906-1956

Stjern, Kasper Hage - 2025

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Deciphering algorithmic collusion : insights from bandit algorithms and implications for antitrust enforcement

Marty, Frédéric; Warin, Thierry - 2025

This paper explores algorithmic collusion from both legal and economic perspectives, underscoring the increasing influence of algorithms in firms’ market decisions and their potential to facilitate anti-competitive behaviour. By employing bandit algorithms as a model—typically used in...

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Deciphering algorithmic collusion : insights from bandit algorithms and implications for antitrust enforcement

Marty, Frédéric; Warin, Thierry - 2023

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A conjectural variations approach to detecting collusion : the broiler chicken antitrust litigation case

Sheng, Qiwen; Vukina, Tomislav - 2025

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Collusion and price behavior in the U.S. pork industry

Bolotova, Yuliya V. - 2025

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Partial cartels and ringleaders : an experimental study

Bruttel, Lisa Verena; Rau, Holger A.; Werner, Vasilisa - 2025

This paper investigates partial cartels, which laboratory studies have neglected despite their empirical prevalence. We conduct two laboratory experiments to understand how they function compared to all-inclusive cartels and respond to antitrust policies. First, we compare partial cartel...

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Unilateral collusion : (mere) conscious parallelism or (illegal) concerted practice? : the case of competitor-based pricing guarantees

Rottmann, Johannes - 2025

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Agreeing on public goods or bads

Ansink, Erik; Weikard, Hans-Peter - 2025

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Agreeing on public goods or bads

Ansink, Erik; Weikard, Hans-Peter - 2023

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A framework for effective public enforcement of cartels : a study of four nordic countries

Halvorsen Barlund, Ingrid Margrethe; Harrington, Joseph … - 2025

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Climate policy and cartelization risk for critical minerals : an application to the copper market

Romani, Ilenia Gaia; Comincioli, Nicola; Vergalli, Sergio - 2025

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Climate policy and cartelization risk for critical minerals : an application to the copper market

Romani, Ilenia Gaia; Comincioli, Nicola; Vergalli, Sergio - 2024

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Price-fixing cartels and firm innovation

Kang, Hyo - 2025

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The political economy of commodity cartel formation : the case of coffee : 1930-1940

Robles-Baez, Christian; Medina, Luis Fernando; Bucheli, … - 2025

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Collusion through common leadership

Herrera-Caicedo, Alejandro; Jeffers, Jessica; Prager, Elena - 2025

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Algorithmic pricing and algorithmic collusion

Bichler, Martin; Durmann, Julius; Oberlechner, Matthias - 2025

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Scoring and cartel discipline in procurement auctions

Ortner, Juan; Chassang, Sylvain; Kawai, Kei; … - 2025

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Cross-owners and bond issue pricing : coordination or collusion?

Liang, Shangkun; Wang, Sichao; Gao, Kaijuan - 2025

Using a sample of listed Chinese firms from 2007 to 2020, we investigate the governance implications of cross-ownership in corporate bond markets. We find that cross-ownership significantly reduces bond issuance spreads, suggesting that synergistic governance effects outweigh potential collusion...

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Collusion when players take turns

Corchón, Luis C.; Correa-Lopera, Guadalupe; Moreno, … - 2025

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Cartel dynamics and Leniency policy : self-reporting to start over with a clean slate

Alventosa, Adriana; Ordóñez de Haro, José M.; Rodero … - 2025

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Is financial stress a facilitating factor in cartel formation?

Huric-Larsen, Jesper Fredborg - 2025

It is well-known that failing to achieve key organizational goals may pressure managers to commit fraud, but can it be a facilitating factor in cartel formation as well? The purpose of this study is to understand if firms known to have been in a cartel were under financial stress in the period...

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The effect of a lottery on collusion sustainability

Ciucci, Salvatore - 2025

There are many evidences which prove that cartels’ price leads to an economic inefficiency, due to the reduced consumers welfare. Antitrust authorities have set up different ways to defeat and prevent collusive agreements, but as widely showed by the literature, deterring collusion may have...

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An antitrust case in the diamond industry : the United States v. the De Beers cartel (1948)

Pouillard, Véronique - 2025

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A price screen for collusion : applications to the U.S. beef and pork industries

Bolotova, Yuliya V. - 2025

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Patent rights in a duopoly with price leadership

Prokop, Jacek - 2025

This study analyzes the impact of patent rights on duopolistic competition with price leadership. The willingness of companies with significant patent rights to form a cartel was assessed. The main aim of the analysis was to determine the role of patents in maintaining the stability of the...

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What determines cartel duration? : global evidence using quantile regression analysis

Polemis, Michael - 2025

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Collusive stability with relative performance and network externalities

Lu, Yi-Shan; Tsai, Chien-Shu; Lee, Jen Yao; Lee, Chung-Yang - 2024

In this paper, we aim to investigate the collusive stability in the presence of network externalities among firms with relative performance in the firm's objective functions. We demonstrate that collusive stability is increasing (decreasing) in the degree of relative performance, product...

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COVID and structural cartelisation : market-state-society ties and the political economy of pharma

Sparke, Matthew; Williams, Owain - 2024

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Losses from horizontal merger and collusion

Beladi, Hamid; Mukherjee, Arijit - 2024

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Unprofitable cartels : evidence from a natural experiment in the UK

Symeonidis, George - 2024

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Detecting cartels for ex officio investigations

2024

Competition authorities have developed various tools to detect cartels and substantiate the basis for opening investigations. Ex officio investigations, meaning investigations initiated by the authorities themselves, are derived from detection tools that require a higher level of proactivity...

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On algorithmic collusion and reward-punishment schemes

Epivent, Andréa; Lambin, Xavier - 2024

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On Algorithmic Collusion and Reward-Punishment Schemes

Epivent, Andréa; Lambin, Xavier - 2022

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Screen for collusive behavior : a machine learning approach

Bantle, Melissa - 2024

The paper uses a machine learning technique to build up a screen for collusive behavior. Such tools can be applied by competition authorities but also by companies to screen the behavior of their suppliers. The method is applied to the German retail gasoline market to detect anomalous behavior...

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