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Enhanced Cooperation in an Asymmetric Model of Tax Competition
Vrijburg, Hendrik; Mooij, Ruud A. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
This paper analyzes enhanced cooperation agreements in corporate taxation in a three country tax competition model … an enhanced cooperation agreement. Conditions for strategic complementarity or strategic substitutability of tax rates … are crucial for the welfare effects of enhanced cooperation. Simulations show that enhanced cooperation is unlikely to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513231
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The Effects of Leniency on Maximal Cartel Pricing
Houba, Harold; Motchenkova, Evgenia; Wen, Quan - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
We analyze maximal cartel prices in infinitely-repeated oligopoly models under leniency where fines are linked to illegal gains, as often outlined in existing antitrust regulation, and detection probabilities depend on the degree of collusion. We introduce cartel culture that describes how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008531430
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Maximal Cartel Pricing and Leniency Programs
Houba, Harold; Motchenkova, Evgenia; Wen, Quan - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
For a general class of oligopoly models with price competition, we analyze the impact of ex-ante leniency programs in antitrust regulation on the endogenous maximal-sustainable cartel price. This impact depends upon industry characteristics including its cartel culture. Our analysis disentangles...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137188
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Competitive Prices as Profit-Maximizing Cartel Prices
Houba, Harold; Motchenkova, Evgenia; Wen, Quan - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
Even under antitrust enforcement, firms may still form a cartel in an infinitely-repeated oligopoly model when the discount factor is sufficiently close to one. We present a linear oligopoly model where the profit-maximizing cartel price converges to the competitive equilibrium price as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838625
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Governmental Competition in Road Charging and Capacity Choice
Ubbels, Barry; Verhoef, Erik - Tinbergen Institute - 2006
played between the two actors, but much more whether there is cooperation (leading to first-best) or competition between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136964
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The Breakdown of Morale
Vikander, Nick - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
encourage cooperation may actually hurt morale, by convincing opportunistic team members to imitate and later take advantage of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005209501
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Cooperation in an Overlapping Generations Experiment
Offerman, Theo; Potters, Jan; Verbon, Harry A.A. - Tinbergen Institute - 1999
. Cooperation in such games can be sustained as a Nash equilibrium. Besides the efficient cooperative equilibrium there is also the … inefficient non-cooperative equilibrium. This paper investigates experimentally whether cooperation actually occurs in a simple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144485
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Imitation of Cooperation in Prisoner's Dilemma Games with Some Local Interaction
Janssen, Maarten C.W. - Tinbergen Institute - 2000
behavior. I show that for a large class of parameters cooperation will emerge if the population is large; if the population is … population, the less likely cooperation will be. <BR><BR> …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144493
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The Role and Evolution of Central Authorities
Frijters, Paul; Tieman, Alexander F. - Tinbergen Institute - 1999
In this paper we argue that authorities aid cooperation by means of direct coordination or the enforcement of re …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136860
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Conditional Cooperation and Voluntary Contributions to Public Goods
Keser, Claudia; Winden, Frans A.A.M. van - Tinbergen Institute - 2000
in the final periods. We interpret subjects' behavior in terms of conditional cooperation which is characterized by both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136974