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are that foreclosure is in fact a subgame perfect Nash equilibrium of the repeated game, and it may facilitate collusion …
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This paper analyzes the role of communication between firms in an infinitely repeated Bertrand game in which firms receive an imperfect private signal of a common value i.i.d. demand shock. It is shown that firms can use stochastic, inter-temporal market sharing as a perfect substitute for...
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This paper investigates the effect of capacity constraints on the sustainability of collusion in markets subject to …
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tacit collusion. …
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Collusion and soft budget constraint are two conspicuous phenomena in transition economies¡¯ banking system. Literature … relationship. Moreover, after introducing collusion possibility, non-commitment of the government increases the stakes, or bribes …, taking into account the fact that the bank is collusive, the government who aims to prevent collusion will switch to the …
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Coordination Failure Diagnostics (CFD) is a model that analyses real market processes with the help of time pattern analysis and investigates whether they operate efficiently (See www.wiwi.uni-muenster.de/cfd). The CFD cartel-audit should enable the detection of cartels via characteristic market...
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Three years ago, the Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission revised their Horizontal Merger Guidelines to articulate in greater detail how they would treat claims of efficiencies associated with horizontal mergers: claims that are frequently made, as for instance in the recently...
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The fundamental contribution of the paper is to contest the view that greater market contestability has non-negative effects on market performance. In a model where employees pose a threat of potential entry, we demonstrate that a reduction in barriers to entry causes no fall in industry price...
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