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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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Market shares as collusive marker : evidence from the European truck industry

Bovin, Andreas; Bos, Iwan - 2023

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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 stability 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...

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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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Endogenous Cartel Formation with Heterogeneous Firms

Bos, Iwan (contributor); … - 2008

In the context of an infinitely repeated capacity-constrained price game, we endogenize the composition of a cartel … when firms are heterogeneous in their capacities. When firms are sufficiently patient, there exists a stable cartel … involving the largest firms. A firm with sufficiently small capacity is not a member of any stable cartel. When a cartel is not …