affected by tacit collusion or price manipulation when the corresponding polluting product market is oligopolistic. We analyze …

of application in separate markets in which a conspirator in the investigated market also engaged in collusion. The …

This paper analyzes price collusion in a repeated game with two submarkets; a standard and a premium quality segment … depends on the cost of producing quality. Moreover, given that there is a cartel, more collusion can be beneficial for society …

own workers to pay lower wages; and 2. Monopoly, where dominant firms charge too high prices for what they sell, which … Census Bureau between 1997 and 2016, we find evidence of both monopoly and monopsony, where the former is rising over this … period and the latter is stable. Both contribute to the decoupling of productivity and wage growth, with monopoly being the …