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In this paper, we highlight new conditions under which R&D agreements may have anti-competitive effects. We focus on cases where two firms compete with each other and with a competitive fringe. R&D activities need a specific input available to all firms on a common market, the price of which...
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. Full collusion is easier to sustain than partial collusion from the brands.perspective when horizontal differentiation is … large and vertical differentiation is small. The private label firm is better off under full collusion than under partial … collusion if goods are sufficiently homogenous (horizontal and/or vertical). Partial collusion could be preferred by the private …
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In this note we analyze the sustainability of collusion in a game of repeated interaction where firms can price … improvement in data quality it is more difficult to sustain collusion. …
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This paper experimentally studies the role of search cost in duopoly markets where sellers may be able to coordinate pricing decisions. We vary the level of search cost and whether sellers can communicate. While we find that consumers are more likely to invest in search when cost is reduced, we...
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We analyze firms' ability to sustain collusion in a setting in which horizontally differentiated firms can price … sustainability of collusion. Starting from a low level, an increase in signal precision first facilitates collusion. However, there … is a turning point from which on any further increase renders collusion less sustainable. Our analysis provides important …
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Consumer switching costs cause the market demand of consumers who already bought a supplier's product to be less elastic while they simultaneously increase competition for new consumers. I study the effect of this twofold pricing incentive on firms' price setting behavior in a 2x2 factorial...
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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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We analyze the effects of better algorithmic demand forecasting on collusive profits. We show that the comparative statics crucially depend on the whether actions are observable. Thus, the optimal antitrust policy needs to take into account the institutional settings of the industry in question....
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that resembles traditional tacit collusion, I conduct market experiments with human participants in the same environment …
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We analyze the effect of different pricing schemes on horizontally differentiated firms' ability to sustain collusion … that the additional price component of the two-part tariff makes it more difficult to sustain collusion. Additionally, the … pricing schedule that is most beneficial for customers in absence of collusion harms customers most in presence of (partial …
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