We explore whether lawful cooperation in buyer groups facilitates collusion in the product market. Buyer groups … constitute credible threats. Hence, in theory, buyer groups facilitate collusion. We run several experimental treatments using …

Factors facilitating collusion may not successfully predict cartel occurrence: when a factor predicts that collusion …

This paper explores the effects that collusion can have in newspaper markets where firms compete for advertising as …) semi-collusion over advertising (with competition in the reader market), and iii) (full) collusion in both the advertising … and the reader market. We find that semi-collusion leads to less advertising (but higher advertising prices) and lower …

; Collusion ; Entry deterrence …

We explore whether buyer groups, in which firms legally purchase inputs jointly, facilitate collusion in the product … credible threats, hence, in theory buyer groups facilitate collusion. We run several experimental treatments in a three … as a main factor causing collusive product markets. -- buyer groups ; cartels ; collusion ; communication ; experiments …

-cycle behavior becomes less pronounced, causing lower prices. Evidence for tacit collusion is limited and restricted to low …-capacity duopolies. -- tacit collusion ; excess capacity ; Edgeworth cycles …