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Choosing whether to compete : price and format competition with consumer confusion
Crosetto, Paolo; Gaudeul, Alexia - 2014
We run a market experiment where firms can choose not only their price but also whether to present comparable offers. They are faced with artificial demand from consumers who make mistakes when assessing the net value of products on the market. If some offers are comparable however, some...
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Oligopoly as a socially embedded dilemma: An experiment
Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2011
is highest if only the competitor(s) is (are) loyal to the cartel. Yet collusion inflicts harm on the opposite market … we add beliefs as a control variable, we only find that externalities enhance cooperation, even if gains from collusion …
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Oligopoly as a socially embedded dilemma : an experiment
Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2011
is highest if only the competitor(s) is (are) loyal to the cartel. Yet collusion inflicts harm on the opposite market … we add beliefs as a control variable, we only find that externalities enhance cooperation, even if gains from collusion … expected. -- Oligopoly ; Collusion ; experiment ; Uncertainty ; negative externalities ; prisoner's dilemma …
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Actions Speak Louder than Words : econometric evidence to target tacit collusion in oligopolistic markets
Andreoli Versbach, Patrick; Franck, Jens-Uwe - 2013
Tacit collusion reduces welfare comparably to explicit collusion but remains mostly unaddressed by antitrust … that facilitate tacit collusion by providing quantitative evidence that links these actions to an anticompetitive market … about collusion. …
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Endogenous information disclosure in experimental oligopolies
Kopányi, Dávid; Kopányi-Peuker, Anita - 2015
difference in average total outputs across data aggregation and information settings. However, we observe more collusion when …
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Collusive vertical relations
Bolatto, Stefano; Lambertini, Luca - 2017
We investigate the possibility for two vertically related firms to at least partially collude on the wholesale price over an in.nite horizon to mitigate or eliminate the e¤ects of double marginalisation, thereby avoiding contracts which might not be enforceable. We characterise alternative...
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Induced price leadership and (counter-)spying rivals' play under incomplete information
Fan, Cuihong; Chŏn, Pyŏng-hŏn; Wolfstetter, Elmar - 2019
We analyze spying out a rival's price in a Bertrand market game with incomplete information. Spying transforms a simultaneous into a robust sequential moves game. We provide conditions for profitable espionage. The spied at firm may attempt to immunize against spying by delaying its pricing...
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Forward trading and collusion in supply functions
Wölfing, Nikolas - 2019
This paper studies the effect of forward contracts on the stability of collusion among firms, competing in supply … functions on the spot market. A forward market can increase the range of discount factors which allow to sustain collusion. On … the contrary, collusion is destabilised when a potential deviator sells a significant amount forward. Results do not …
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Patent protection and threat of litigation in oligopoly
Capuano, Carlo; Grassi, Iacopo - 2018
entrant deviates from collusion, the incumbent can strengthen punishment suing the competitor for patent infringement …
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Patent protection and threat of litigation in oligopoly
Capuano, Carlo; Grassi, Iacopo - 2018
entrant deviates from collusion, the incumbent can strengthen punishment suing the competitor for patent infringement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011799562