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Optimal corporate leniency programs
Harrington, Joseph E. - 2005
This study characterizes the corporate leniency policy that minimizes the frequency with which collusion occurs. Though … it can be optimal to provide only partial leniency, plausible sufficient conditions are provided whereby the antitrust … when amnesty is awarded, though it can be optimal to award amnesty even when the antitrust authority is very likely to win …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293443
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Cartel pricing dynamics in the presence of an antitrust authority
Harrington, Joseph E. - 2002
Price-fixing is characterized when firms are concerned about creating suspicions that a cartel has formed. Antitrust … stability of the cartel. While antitrust laws can lower collusive prices, they can also raise them by making it easier for firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293446
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Optimal cartel pricing in the presence of an antitrust authority
Harrington, Joseph E. - 2001
Price dynamics are characterized when a price-fixing cartel is concerned about creating suspicions of the presence of a cartel A dynamical extension of static models yields the counterfactual prediction that the cartel initially raises price and then gradually lowers it An alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293483
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Cartel Pricing Dynamics in the Presence of an Antitrust Authority
Joseph E. Harrington, Jr. - Society for Computational Economics - SCE - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005706816
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What Can the Duration of Discovered Cartels Tell Us About the Duration of Cartels?
Joseph E. Harrington, Jr.; Wei, Yanhao - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2014
There are many data sets based on the population of discovered cartels and it is from this data that average cartel duration and the annual probability of cartel death are estimated. It is recognized, however, that these estimates could be biased because the population of discovered cartels may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071749
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Search and equilibrium prices: Theory and evidence from retail diesel
Cabral, Luís M. B.; Schober, Dominik; Woll, Oliver - 2019
We examine the relation between consumer search and equilibrium prices when collusion is endogenously determined. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012007591
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Endogenous Cartel Formation with Heterogeneous Firms
Bos, Iwan; Harrington, Joseph E. - 2008
In the context of an infinitely repeated capacity-constrained price game, we endogenize the composition of a cartel when .rms are heterogeneous in their capacities. When .rms are sufficiently patient, there exists a stable cartel involving the largest .rms. A .rm with sufficiently small capacity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277525
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Search and equilibrium prices : theory and evidence from retail diesel
Cabral, Luís M. B.; Schober, Dominik; Woll, Oliver - 2019 - This version: March 27, 2019
We examine the relation between consumer search and equilibrium prices when collusion is endogenously determined. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012007152
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The myth of the domestic brand bias for automobiles in the european union
Radoias, Vlad - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 4, pp. 2115-2127
it was originally thought of. Instead, we find patterns of collusion among the major manufacturing groups in Italy …
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The myth of the domestic brand bias for automobiles in the European Union
Radoias, Vlad - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 1, pp. 70-82
it was originally thought of. Instead, we find patterns of collusion among the major manufacturing groups in Italy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011199663