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Vertical differentiation and collusion : cannibalization or proliferation?

Gabszewicz, Jean Jaskold; Marini, Marco A.; Tarola, Ornella - 2016

In this paper, we tackle the dilemma of pruning versus proliferation in a vertically differentiated oligopoly under the assumption that some firms collude and control both the range of variants for sale and their corresponding prices, likewise a multiproduct firm. We analyse whether pruning...

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Collusive agreements in vertically differentiated markets

Marini, Marco A. - 2017

proliferating their products. It is shown that a selective pruning within the cartel always occurs. Moreover, by associating a … cooperative (or coalitional) stability of the whole industry cartel is the equidistance of firms’ products along the quality …

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Cartel sustainability and cartel stability

Escrihuela-Villar, Marc - 2004

The paper studies how does the size of a cartel affect the possibility that its members can sustain a collusive … agreement. I obtain that collusion is easier to sustain the larger the cartel is. Then, I explore the implications of this … result on the incentives of firms to participate in a cartel. Firms will be more willing to participate because otherwise …

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Stability of collusion and quality differentiation : a Nash bargaining approach

Athanasopoulos, Thanos; Dindaroglu, Burak; Petropoulos, … - 2021

more likely to leave the cartel for small quality differences, high quality firms determine cartel stability when the …

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Demand growth, entry and collusion sustainability

Capuano, Carlo - 2002

The purpose of this paper is to represent in which way a stable and no negligible growth in demand can affect the level of sustainability of collusion. For the European Commission this assumption is seen as a factor that disincentives collusion and pushes to a competitive behavior. This fact...

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Intimidating competitors : endogenous vertical integration and downstream investment in successive oligopoly

Bühler, Stefan (contributor); Schmutzler, Armin (contributor) - 2004 - July 2004, revised July 2005

We examine the interplay of endogenous vertical integration and costreducing downstream investment in successive oligopoly. We start from a linear Cournot model to motivate our more general reducedform framework. For this general framework, we establish the following main results: First,...

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Is there a U-shaped Relation between competition and Investment?

Sacco, Dario - 2008

We argue that, in a simple setting, the relation between the intensity of competition and cost-reducing investment is U-shaped. We consider a two-stage game with cost-reducing investments followed by a linear differentiated Cournot duopoly. We first show that, except for firms that are much less...

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Collusion between two-sided platforms

Lefouili, Yassine; Pinho, Joana - 2018

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Autonomous algorithmic collusion: economic research and policy implications

Assad, Stephanie; Calvano, Emilio; Calzolari, Giacomo; … - 2021

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Collusion in quality-segmented markets

Bos, Iwan; Marini, Marco - 2020

. Within this setting, we study four types of price-fixing agreement: (i) a segment-wide cartel in the premium submarket only …, (ii) a segment-wide cartel in the standard submarket only, (iii) two segment-wide cartels, and (iv) an industrywide cartel …-wide cartel prefers to maintain market shares at pre-collusive levels. The impact on consumer and social welfare critically …

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