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punishment. Collusion is thus more difficult, the closer firms cooperate in manufacturing. Moreover, given competition or … collusion in the market, joint production yields the highest profit and welfare. …
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This paper shows that obligations from debt hinder tacit collusion if equity owners are protected by limited liability …
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This paper shows that obligations from debt hinder tacit collusion if equity owners are protected by limited liability …
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critical discount factor required to sustain collusion. This result is shown to hold for Cournot oligopoly as well as for … Bertrand oligopoly when collusion is sustained with Nash-reversion strategies or optimal-punishment strategies. In a Cournot …
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collusion based on the ratio of collusive to monopolistic profits. We then prove that as the number of firms goes to infinity …, our collusive strategy profile is an equilibrium as long as the discount factor is below 0.63. Thus, collusion is robust …
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Mergers and acquisitions shape industry competition. Effective merger remedies are important for market efficiency and consumer welfare. This paper explores the need for more flexible remedies to address changing markets after mergers. While the EU permits some flexibility with less restrictive...
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We study the pricing decision of firms in the presence of consumer inertia. Inertia can arise from habit formation, brand loyalty, switching costs, or search, and it has important implications for the interpretation of equilibrium outcomes and counterfactual analysis. In particular, consumer...
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Mergers and acquisitions shape industry competition. Effective merger remedies are important for market efficiency and consumer welfare. This paper explores the need for more flexible remedies to address changing markets after mergers. While the EU permits some flexibility with less restrictive...
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, collusion. …
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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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