We explore whether lawful cooperation in buyer groups facilitates collusion in the product market. Buyer groups … constitute credible threats. Hence, in theory, buyer groups facilitate collusion. We run several experimental treatments using …

degree of (tacit) collusion when exclusively humans interact to the case of one firm in the market delegating its decisions …)certainty about the actual presence of an algorithm does not significantly affect collusion. …

We explore whether buyer groups, in which firms legally purchase inputs jointly, facilitate collusion in the product … credible threats, hence, in theory buyer groups facilitate collusion. We run several experimental treatments in a three … as a main factor causing collusive product markets. -- buyer groups ; cartels ; collusion ; communication ; experiments …

significantly affect collusion, although humans do seem to perceive algorithms as more disruptive. …

degree of (tacit) collusion when exclusively humans interact to the case of one firm in the market delegating its decisions …)certainty about the actual presence of an algorithm does not significantly affect collusion …

Factors facilitating collusion may not successfully predict cartel occurrence: when a factor predicts that collusion …

interest is the focal-point hypothesis which says that a price ceiling may facilitate tacit collusion and lead to higher prices … because it resolves a coordination problem inherent to collusion. Our results reject the focal-point hypothesis. Markets with …