collusion game. Consistent with the theories of collusion and cheap talk, an initial burst of collusion rapidly collapses if …-game communication is allowed, a similar initial decline in collusion reverses over time. Content analysis is used to identify multiple … channels by which communication improves collusion in this setting. Explicit threats to punish cheating are the most important …

sustainability of collusion is independent of key demand and supply parameters. Recent research has demonstrated that these …). This note considers the effects of demand curvature in the context of a model of collusion where, as in Gallice (2008 … effects of increased concavity (or convexity) in market demand on the sustainability of collusion runs in opposite directions …

collusion game. Consistent with the existing literature on communication and collusion, even minimal communication leads to a … short run increase in collusion. However, in a limited message-space treatment where subjects cannot communicate contingent … strategies, this initial burst of collusion rapidly collapses. When unlimited pre-game communication is allowed via a chat window …

constrained. We show that collusion sustainability is non-monotonic in the size of the capacity constrained firm, which has little …

are indicative of collusion and allow the distinction between collusion from competition. This paper focuses on the … are worthy of more intense investigation. Thus the paper discusses the interrelationship between collusion/competition and …

buyers have heterogeneous storage technologies, periodic sales may facilitate collusion by magnifying intertemporal linking …

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 …