To increase competition in the retail market for gasoline, Germany's Federal Cartel Office established the so …

proliferating their products. It is shown that a selective pruning within the cartel always occurs. Moreover, by associating a … cooperative (or coalitional) stability of the whole industry cartel is the equidistance of firms' products along the quality …

This paper analyzes dynamic cartel formation and antitrust enforcement when firms operate in demand-related markets. We … show that cartel prosecution can have a knock-on effect: desisting a cartel in one market reduces profits and cartel … stability and leads to the break-up of the cartel in the adjacent market. Cartel prosecution can also have a waterbed effect …

cartelized industry. This paper endogenizes the process of cartel formation in a numeric simulation model where firms differ in … empirical methods used in the detection of cartels. -- Collusion ; Cartel Detection ; Cartel Formation ; Differential Evolution …

cooperation, undercutting is defection. Jointly, competitors are better off if both are faithful to a cartel. Individually, profit … is highest if only the competitor(s) is (are) loyal to the cartel. Yet collusion inflicts harm on the opposite market …