largest rms bidding in provincial road paving procurement auctions in Quebec between 2007 and 2015. I use the police … investigation into collusion and corruption in the Quebec construction industry launched in October 2009 to capture the end of this …

A number of recent papers have proposed that a pattern of isolated winning bids may be associated with collusion. In … contrast, others have suggested that bid clustering, especially of the two lowest bids, is indicative of collusion. In this …, whose asphalt industry has not been the subject of collusion allegations. Our findings provide causal evidence that the …

This paper studies the effect of forward contracts on the stability of collusion among firms, competing in supply … functions on the spot market. A forward market can increase the range of discount factors which allow to sustain collusion. On … the contrary, collusion is destabilised when a potential deviator sells a significant amount forward. Results do not …

This paper shows that the possibility of collusion between an agent and a supervisor imposes no restrictions on the set … implementable if the supervisor's information was public is also implementable when this information is private and collusion is …

We examine the relation between consumer search and equilibrium prices when collusion is endogenously determined. We …

This paper studies how information control affects incentives for collusion and optimal organizational structures in …