: subjects use costly fines as (altruistic) punishments. Leniency further increases deterrence, but stabilizes surviving cartels …. With rewards, cartels are reported systematically and prices finally fall. If a ringleader is excluded from leniency …

The paper studies the role of communication in facilitating collusion. The situation of infinitely repeated Cournot … collusive output levels or a 'downward' demand shock. The firms choose between tacit collusion and collusion with communication … there exists a range of discount factors where collusion with communication constitutes the most profitable collusive …

This paper contributes to the study of tacit collusion by analyzing infinitely repeated multiunit uniform price … number of steps, maximal collusion is attained with simple price-quantity strategies exhibiting capacity withholding. …

factor potentially leading to collusion. We show that forbidding mergers leading to symmetric market structures can induce … mergers leading to asymmetric market structures with higher risk of collusion, when firms face indivisible costs of collusion …) firm benefits sufficiently more from collusion when industry asymmetries increase, collusion can become more likely when …

several other forms of crimes that share cartels’ strategic features, including corruption and financial fraud. …

It is well known that communication often serves as a facilitator for cooperation in static games. Yet, communication … can serve entirely different purposes in dynamic settings as communication during the game may work as a means for … investigates cooperation and non-binding communication in a two-stage game. More specifically, two treatments are considered: one …