marketing agencies specialized in bidding in the auctions that are used to sell ad space on the web. We analyze how collusive … (used by Facebook). We find that, despite its well-known susceptibility to collusion, the VCG mechanism outperforms the GSP …

This paper examines bidding in auctions for state highway construction contracts on Long Island in the early 1980s, in … order to determine whether bid rigging occurred. Detection of collusion is possible because of limited participation in the … collusive scheme. The paper looks at differences in behavior between ring members and non-members. In these auctions, collusio …

that banks, by avoiding (even the appearance of) collusion, now incur the costs of executing customers' orders …

policy. We address four core subject areas: market power, collusion, mergers between competitors, and monopolization. In each …

We analyze tacit collusion in an industry characterized by cyclical demand and long-run scale decisions; firms face … that two types of price wars may exist. In one, collusion can involve periods of mixed strategy price wars. In the other …