We study the role of communication in collusive market sharing. In a series of Cournot oligopoly experiments with …. We find that the effect of communication on the firms' ability to collude depends on the type of information available … strategy, even if stated only once, drives this strong effect. Our results point to the types and contents of communication …

truthful communication can be promoted by the threat of ex-post disclosure, even in the absence of financial consequences. Our … doubles the incidence of truth-telling. Interestingly, the effect of ex-post disclosure on truthful communication is present …

cartels whereas only one of them would have been reported under the EC Leniency Program. …

cartels whereas only one of them would have been reported under the EC Leniency Program …

change the status quo. We study three scenarios - secrecy, where votes and communication are secret, mild transparency, where … individual votes are public, and full transparency, where both communication and individual votes are public. The two …