Detailed notes on weekly meetings of the sugar refining cartel show how communication helps firms collude, and so … highlight the deficiencies in the current formal theory of collusion. The Sugar Institute did not fix prices or output. Prices …

We study entry into the American sugar refining industry before World War I. We show that the price wars following two …

This paper describes information exchange under the Sugar Institute, the trade association of U.S. domestic sugar cane …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that … suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of …