Patent settlements between rivals restrain competition in many different ways. Antitrust requires that their …

offers especially when many consumers prefer comparable offers. This occurs after initial periods with strong competition and … leads to lower welfare for all consumers. In treatments where firms cannot monitor the competition, firms end up having to …. They are faced with artificial demand from consumers who make mistakes when assessing the net value of products on the …

This is a survey of the economic principles that underlie antitrust law and how those principles relate to competition … policy. We address four core subject areas: market power, collusion, mergers between competitors, and monopolization. In each …

oligopolistic tacit collusion as such, but that reputes abusive a set of tactics adopted by tacitly colluding oligopolists exposed … to disruption. As much as deviation is an internal force likely to undermine tacit collusion, disruption is a powerful … pro-competitive promises if oligopolists tinker to restore a collusive equilibrium. This paper suggests that competition …

empirical methods used in the detection of cartels. -- Collusion ; Cartel Detection ; Cartel Formation ; Differential Evolution …

both price and quantity competition, and the main features are broadly consistent with common cartel practice identified by …