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This paper contributes to the study of tacit collusion by analyzing infinitely repeated multiunit uniform price … which the monopoly outcome with equal sharing is sustainable in the uniform price auction, but not in the corresponding … discriminatory auction. Moreover, capacity withholding may be necessary to sustain this outcome. We extend these results to the case …
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reduce or at best cancel sanctions for price-fixing firms that self-report -- may make collusion enforceable even in one …-shot competitive interactions, like Bertrand oligopolies and first-price auctions, where no collusion would be supportable otherwise …
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This paper analyzes the formation of market sharing agreements among firms in oligopolistic markets and procurement auctions. The set of market sharing agreements defines a collusive network, and the paper provides a complete characterization of stable and efficient collusive networks when firms...
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Consider a market where producers submit supply functions to a procurement auction - e.g. an electric power auction …
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-good/multi-unit auctions provides guidance on the design of the auction format, setting the reservation price, the rationing rule, and …
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more importantly we characterize novel mixtures over partly increasing supply functions. -- Pay-as-bid auction ; divisible … good auction ; mixed strategy equilibria ; wholesale electricity markets …
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The literature on license auctions for process innovations in oligopoly assumed that the auctioneer reveals the winning bid and stressed that this gives firms an incentive to signal strength through their bids, to the benefit of the innovator. In the present paper we examine whether revealing...
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/multi-unit auctions provides guidance on the design of the auction format, setting the reservation price, the rationing rule, and …
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This paper proposes and tests an explanation as to why rational managers seeking to maximize shareholder value can pursue value-decreasing mergers. It can be optimal to overpay for a target firm and decrease shareholder value if the loss is less than in an alternative where the merger is...
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