experiments with written cheap-talk communication between players and we compare them to treatments without the possibility to …Factors facilitating collusion may not successfully predict cartel occurrence: when a factor predicts that collusion … tacitly but that the number of firms does not significantly affect outcomes with communication. As a result, the payoff gain …

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 …

guarantee fewer cartels in a market. (ii) Cartel formation occurs in two distinct ways. In one case, firms simultaneously choose …) Managers are more likely to form cartels when managers' and owners' incentives are different compared to when their incentives …

cooperation. We deploy our framework in one-shot public goods experiments in the US and the UK, and in Morocco and Turkey. We find …