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Fighting collusion by permitting price discrimination
Helfrich, Magdalena; Herweg, Fabian - 2016
We investigate the effect of a ban on third-degree price discrimination on the sustainability of collusion. We build a …' discount factor has to be higher in order to sustain collusion in grim-trigger strategies under price discrimination than under …
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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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Chapter 15 Antitrust
Kaplow, Louis; Shapiro, Carl - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 2, (pp. 1073-1225). 2007
policy. We address four core subject areas: market power, collusion, mergers between competitors, and monopolization. In each …
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Collusive upward gasoline price movements in medium-sized German cities
Neukirch, Arne; Wein, Thomas - 2016
Do we have effective competition between the gasoline's big five oligopolists (Aral, Shell, Esso, Total and Jet) and fringe gasoline stations? Using 2014 Market Transparency price data from 66 cities with populations between 60,000 and 100,000, we analyze which brands lead price increases, the...
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Vertical differentiation and collusion : cannibalization or proliferation?
Gabszewicz, Jean Jaskold; Marini, Marco A.; Tarola, Ornella - 2016
In this paper, we tackle the dilemma of pruning versus proliferation in a vertically differentiated oligopoly under the assumption that some firms collude and control both the range of variants for sale and their corresponding prices, likewise a multiproduct firm. We analyse whether pruning...
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Multi-product bargaining, bundling, and buyer power
Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Wey, Christian - 2019
We re-consider the bilateral bargaining problem of a multi-product, manufacturer-retailer trading relationship. O'Brien and Shaffer (Rand JE 35:573-598, 2005) have shown that the unbundling of contracts leads to downward distorted production levels if seller power is strong, while otherwise the...
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Price-fixing policy
Kaplow, Louis - 2018
The prohibition against price fixing is competition law’s most important and least controversial provision. Yet there is far less consensus than meets the eye on what constitutes price fixing, and prevalent understandings cannot be reconciled with principles of oligopoly theory. This article...
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Private information, price discrimination, and collusion
Peiseler, Florian; Rasch, Alexander; Shekhar, Shiva - 2018
We analyze firms' ability to sustain collusion in a setting in which horizontally differentiated firms can price … sustainability of collusion. Starting from a low level, an increase in signal precision first facilitates collusion. However, there … is a turning point from which on any further increase renders collusion less sustainable. Our analysis provides important …
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Pricing behavior in partial cartels
Odenkirchen, Johannes - 2018
We analyze the pricing behavior of firms when explicit partial cartels have formed in experimental markets through communication. Using a repeated, asymmetric capacity constraint price game, we show that, in line with theory, a partial cartel is sufficient to increase market prices for all...
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On the Sustainability of Collusion in Bertrand Supergames with Discrete Pricing and Nonlinear Demand
Zimmerman, Paul R. - 2010
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 …
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