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Leniency and Cartel Size : A Note on How Self-Reporting Nurtures Collusion in Concentrated Markets

Bos, Iwan - 2011

pay reduced fines. This paper connects this potential adverse effect to the number of firms involved in the cartel …

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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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Myopic oligopoly pricing

Bos, Iwan; Marini, Marco; Saulle, Riccardo D. - 2021

This paper examines capacity-constrained oligopoly pricing with sellers who seek myopic improvements. We employ the Myopic Stable Set solution concept and establish the existence of a unique pure-strategy price solution for any given level of capacity. This solution is shown to coincide with the...

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Anti-consumerism: stick or carrot?

Bos, Iwan; Maccarrone, Giovanni; Marini, Marco - 2024

Anti-consumerism is a doctrine that aims to discourage excessive consumption because of its damaging effect on the environment. It can either focus on creating psychic costs for consumers (a 'stick') or psychic benefits for non-consumers (a 'carrot'). This paper examines the impact of these two...

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Oligopoly pricing : the role of firm size and number

Bos, Iwan; Marini, Marco - In: Games 14 (2023) 1, pp. 1-16

This paper examines a homogeneous-good Bertrand-Edgeworth oligopoly model to explore the role of firm size and number in pricing. We consider the price impact of merger, break up, investment, divestment, entry and exit. A merger leads to higher prices only when it increases the size of the...

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Myopic Oligopoly Pricing

Bos, Iwan; Marini, Marco; Saulle, Riccardo - 2022

This paper examines capacity-constrained oligopoly pricing with sellers who seek myopic improvements. We employ the Myopic Stable Set solution concept and establish the existence ofa unique pure-strategy price solution for any given level of capacity. This solution is shown tocoincide with the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013308146