This paper proposes a procedure to detect collusion in asymmetric first-price procurement. The main objective is … twofold. First, to provide a methodology to detect collusion using a structural approach, and second to apply the methodology … to field data on procurement auctions for highway construction in California. I identify two different sets of firms as …

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 …

collusion. We introduce cartel culture that describes how likely cartels persist after each conviction. Our analysis …

This paper proposes a method of bid-rigging detection, which allows us to reveal cartels in procurement auctions … ‘rotating bidding’ scheme of collusion. The suggested methodology can be potentially used by both researchers and anti …

collusion. We introduce cartel culture that describes how likely cartels persist after each conviction. Our analysis …