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, collusion. …
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less inclined to collude than men when collusion harms a third party. No gender difference can be found in the absence of a … distance is small they hardly behave collusively when collusion harms a third party. …
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Antidumping creates opportunities for abuse to stifle market competition. Whether cartels actually abuse trade policy for anticompetitive purposes remains an open question in the literature. To address this gap, we construct a novel dataset that matches cartel investigations with trade data at...
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Traditional economic theory of collusion assumed that cartels are inherently unstable, and yet some manage to operate …
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constrained. We show that collusion sustainability is non-monotonic in the size of the capacity constrained firm, which has little …
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This paper analyzes dynamic cartel formation and antitrust enforcement when firms operate in demand-related markets. We show that cartel prosecution can have a knock-on effect: desisting a cartel in one market reduces profits and cartel stability and leads to the break-up of the cartel in the...
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In second price internet auctions with a fixed end time, such as those on eBay, many bidders snipe , i.e., they submit … their bids in the closing minutes or seconds of an auction. Late bids of this sort are much less frequent in auctions that … are automatically extended if a bid is submitted very late, as in auctions conducted on Amazon. We propose a model of …
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The agency model used by Apple and other platform providers such as Google allows upstream firms (content providers like book publishers and developers of apps) to choose the retail prices of their products (RPM) subject to a fixed revenue-sharing rule. We show that (i) this leads to higher...
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We develop a model of strategic geoblocking, where two competing multi-channel retailers, located in different countries, can decide to block access to their online store from foreign consumers. We characterize the equilibrium when firms decide unilaterally whether to introduce geoblocking...
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In 2008, the European Commission investigated E.ON, a large and vertically integrated electricity company, for the alleged abuse of a joint dominant position by strategically withholding generation capacity. The case was settled after E.ON agreed to divest 5,000 MW generation capacity as well as...
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