In a laboratory experiment with supply function competition and private information about correlated costs we study …

equilibrium is characterized; the equilibrium is privately revealing and the incentives to acquire information are preserved …. Price-cost margins and bid shading are affected by the parameters of the information structure: supply functions are steeper … common value case they tend to the collusive level. Private information coupled with strategic behavior induces additional …

A Bayesian supply function equilibrium is characterized in a market where firms have private information about their …, competitiveness is affected by the parameters of the information structure: supply functions are steeper with more noise in the … the collusive level. Furthermore, competition in supply functions aggregates the dispersed information of firms (the …

In industries with imperfect consumer information, the lack of a reputation puts latecomers at a competitive …