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We provide sufficient conditions in finite-horizon multi-stage games for the value function of each player, associated to extremal Markov perfect equilibria, to display strategic complementarities and for the contemporaneous equilibrium to be increasing in the state variables.
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We investigate the timing and the valuation of strategic investment aimed at enhancing entry opportunities in related market segments. As demand is uncertain, entry options should be exercised at the optimal time, trading off the market share gain against the option to wait until more...
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highlight the deficiencies in the current formal theory of collusion. The Sugar Institute did not fix prices or output. Prices …
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The impact of demand growth on the collusion possibilities is investigated in a Cournot supergame where market growth …' available. It is shown that even in situations where perfect collusion can be sustained after entry, coping with a potential …
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Flexibility - the ability to react swiftly to others' choices - facilitates collusion by reducing gains from defection … before opponents react. Under imperfect monitoring, however, flexibility may also hinder collusion by inducing punishment … collusion. To test this subtle prediction we implement in the laboratory an indefinitely repeated Cournot game with noisy price …
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We show that multimarket contact facilitates tacit collusion in the US airline industry using two complementary …
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collusion game. Consistent with the existing literature on communication and collusion, even minimal communication leads to a … short run increase in collusion. However, in a limited message-space treatment where subjects cannot communicate contingent … strategies, this initial burst of collusion rapidly collapses. When unlimited pre-game communication is allowed via a chat window …
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We develop and illustrate a methodology for obtaining robust comparative statics results for collusion models in … impact of parameter changes on the incentives to deviate from collusion and the punishment profits are often of different … new results in the comparative statics of collusion. …
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discussed appear relevant to the fight of other forms of multiagent organized crime - like auditor-manager collusion, financial …
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's Dilemma (repeated oligopolies, relational-contracting models, etc.). We illustrate our main result for collusion equilibria in …
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