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Whistle-blowing is usually regarded as a way to identify abuse and wrongdoing on the part of governments and corporations. In this paper we show how, at a micro level, whistle-blowing can be used as a designer tool to prevent opportunistic behavior, that takes the form of collusion or blackmail,...
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) actions that aim to stop cartel activity in the short-term, immediately following successful prosecution; (c) actions that aim … pricing and periods of cartel pricing. We determine the impact of CA activity on deterred, impeded, and suffered harm. We … show how these break down into measures of the Direct Effect of interventions (i.e. the effect due to cartel activity being …
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antitrust regulation on the endogenous maximal-sustainable cartel price. This impact depends upon industry characteristics … including its cartel culture. Our analysis disentangles the effects of traditional antitrust regulation and the leniency program …
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Three well-known solutions for cooperative TU-games are the Shapley value, the Banzhaf value and the equal division solution. In the literature various axiomatizations of these solutions can be found. Axiomatizations of the Shapley value often use efficiency which is not satisfied by the Banzhaf...
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We analyze maximal cartel prices in infinitely-repeated oligopoly models under leniency where fines are linked to … collusion. We introduce cartel culture that describes how likely cartels persist after each conviction. Our analysis … disentangles the effects of traditional antitrust regulation, leniency, and cartel strategies. Without rewards to the strictly …
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Even under antitrust enforcement, firms may still form a cartel in an infinitely-repeated oligopoly model when the … discount factor is sufficiently close to one. We present a linear oligopoly model where the profit-maximizing cartel price …
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cartel. …
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To account for the illegal nature of price-fixing agreements, detection probabilities are introduced in a dynamic oligopoly. It follows that for a trigger strategy to sustain a non-cooperative collusive equilibrium as a SPNE both the discount rate and all per-period detection probabilities have...
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