makes cartels that do form more stable: subjects use the possibility to report the cartel as an additional stick to control …

between competitive and collusive basing-point pricing. We define a measure for the likelihood of collusion that can be used … to screen industries that traditionally apply delivered pricing for the presence of cartels. We operationalize this … screen with a software. The test is hard to beat for cartels using this otherwise elusive form of price-fixing. When a cartel …

overt collusion, stable cartels buy at a lower price in EN than in FPSB resulting in a lower average winning bid in EN. … first-price sealed-bid auction (FPSB). In theory, both tacit and overt collusion are always incentive compatible in EN while …

collusion. It allows an upstream cartel to shield itself from private damage claims by forwarding a share of cartel profits to …

actually deceiving anyone. The design should be suitable for most economics experiments, and works by a modification of an … deception is used and the data cohere well both internally and with other public goods experiments. In addition, simultaneous …