incentive to deviate from a cartel. We also present conditions for the emergence of a partial cartel, with the capacity … small firm induces a partial conspiracy that is Pareto-dominant. Implications for cartel identification and enforcement are …

We study the relative performance of the first‐price sealed‐bid auction and the second-price sealed‐bid auction in a … reveals the winner’s payment to an outside observer. We find that the first‐price sealed‐bid auction in which the winner …

fluctuations in prices. In this paper, we examine the dynamic auction design and propose a method to curb price volatility through …

reserve price that would set a minimum price in allowance auctions. Opponents of an auction reserve price in the EU ETS have … expressed concern that a minimum auction price would interfere with economic operations in the market or would be tantamount to … and legal arguments for and against an auction reserve price. Our economic analysis concludes that an auction reserve …

information’ assumption. The ad value is characterized by a tractable analytical solution given observed auction parameters. Using … Yahoo! search auction data, we estimate value distributions and study the bidding behavior across product categories. We …

We consider an international cartel whose members interact repeatedly in their own as well as in third …-country segmented markets. Cartel discipline-an inverse measure of the degree of competition between firms-is endogenously determined by … the cartel's incentive compatibility constraint (ICC), which links strategically markets that are seemingly unrelated …

that matches cartel investigations with trade data at the product level. We then estimate the world import price and … quantity effects of antidumping in cartel products. We find that the use of antidumping in cartel industries helps to maintain … higher world import prices and lower quantities during cartel periods, and to induce the establishment of a cartel. The …

for years or even decades. While the literature has presented several determinants of cartel stability, the vast majority …, the communication and internal structures within the cartels as well as their breakup. Our results indicate that cartel … individuals involved in these 15 cartels were female, suggesting that gender also plays a role for cartel formation. We further …