Similar Search Results

Policy innovations, political preferences, and cartel prosecutions

Ghosal, Vivek; Sokol, D. Daniel - 2015

, collusion. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346282

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434582

Collusion by algorithm: the role of unobserved actions

Martin, Simon; Rasch, Alexander - 2022

We analyze the effects of better algorithmic demand forecasting on collusive profits. We show that the comparative statics crucially depend on the whether actions are observable. Thus, the optimal antitrust policy needs to take into account the institutional settings of the industry in question....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093034

Gender and collusion

Haucap, Justus; Heldman, Christina; Rau, Holger A. - 2022

less inclined to collude than men when collusion harms a third party. No gender difference can be found in the absence of a … distance is small they hardly behave collusively when collusion harms a third party. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938866

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962353

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023495

Collusion sustainability with a capacity constrained firm

Madio, Leonardo; Pignataro, Aldo - 2022

constrained. We show that collusion sustainability is non-monotonic in the size of the capacity constrained firm, which has little …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013473721

Corporate social responsibility and firms ability to collude

Lambertini, Luca; Tampieri, Alessandro - 2011

define their objective functions. Our analysis focuses on the bearings of CSR on collusion over an infinite horizon … surplus has a pro-competitive effect under both full and partial collusion. Conversely, a higher impact of productivity on … pollution has an anti-competitive effect under partial collusion, while exerting no effect under full collusion. Under partial …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737085

Multi-market collusion with demand linkages and antitrust enforcement

Choi, Jay Pil; Gerlach, Heiko A. - 2009

This paper analyzes dynamic cartel formation and antitrust enforcement when firms operate in demand-related markets. We show that cartel prosecution can have a knock-on effect: desisting a cartel in one market reduces profits and cartel stability and leads to the break-up of the cartel in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850139

The analysis of coordinated effects in EU merger control : where do we stand after Sony/BMG and Impala?

Aigner, Gisela (contributor); Budzinski, Oliver (contributor) - 2007

industry ; collusion ; Impala ; Sony/BMG …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003417458

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last