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Connor, John M. - 2006

the link between overt collusion and price dispersion. Formal theories and observation of cartel behavior suggest that …

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Focusing on Demand : Using Ebay Data to Analyze the Demand for Telescopes

Adams, Christopher; Bivins, Laura L. - 2003

This paper analyzes the value of using data from on-line auctions to determine product market definitions and …, particularly data from on-line auctions like eBay may be easy to access and may be much easier to interpret. The authors analyze … data from a series of auctions for 3 different types of telescopes, held over a 8 week period. The results suggest that the …

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Manufacturer cartels and resale price maintenance

Hunold, Matthias; Muthers, Johannes - 2020

We provide a theory of how RPM facilitate upstream cartels absent any information asymmetries using a model with manufacturer and retailer competition. Because retailers have an effective outside option to each manufacturer's contract, the manufacturers can only ensure contract acceptance by...

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Manufacturer carterls and resale price maintenance

Hunold, Matthias; Muthers, Johannes - 2020

We provide a theory of how RPM facilitate upstream cartels absent any information asymmetries using a model with manufacturer and retailer competition. Because retailers have an effective outside option to each manufacturer’s contract, the manufacturers can only ensure contract acceptance by...

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Algorithmic pricing and competition : empirical evidence from the German retail gasoline market

Assad, Stephanie; Clark, Robert; Ershov, Daniel; Xu, Lei - 2020

Economic theory provides ambiguous and conflicting predictions about the association between algorithmic pricing and competition. In this paper we provide the first empirical analysis of this relationship. We study Germany’s retail gasoline market where algorithmic-pricing software became...

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Anchoring, reference prices, and list price collusion

Paha, Johannes - 2019

The firms in this model set non-binding list prices before competing for buyers by non-cooperatively granting discounts. Each firm has an incentive to set a high list price if, for example, the customers anchor their willingness-to-pay on the list price. However, list price competition occurs if...

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Induced price leadership and (counter-)spying rivals' play under incomplete information

Fan, Cuihong; Chŏn, Pyŏng-hŏn; Wolfstetter, Elmar - 2019

We analyze spying out a rival's price in a Bertrand market game with incomplete information. Spying transforms a simultaneous into a robust sequential moves game. We provide conditions for profitable espionage. The spied at firm may attempt to immunize against spying by delaying its pricing...

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Fighting collusion by permitting price discrimination

Helfrich, Magdalena; Herweg, Fabian - 2016

We investigate the effect of a ban on third-degree price discrimination on the sustainability of collusion. We build a …' discount factor has to be higher in order to sustain collusion in grim-trigger strategies under price discrimination than under …

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Legal and illegal cartels in the European cement industry

Fink, Nikolaus; Frübing, Stefan - 2015

Due to being much better documented, legal cartels have recently attracted the interest of many researchers who aim to understand the functioning of illegal cartels in detail. This paper contributes to the question of what we can learn from legal cartels by taking a closer look at the cement...

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Policy innovations, political preferences, and cartel prosecutions

Ghosal, Vivek; Sokol, D. Daniel - 2015

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