policy. We address four core subject areas: market power, collusion, mergers between competitors, and monopolization. In each …

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 …

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 …

from a theoretical stance how introducing asymmetry in the substitution effects influences the sustainability of collusion … which are asymmetric in magnitude. Within this framework, we study partial collusion using Friedman (1971) solution concept …. Our main result shows that the interval of quantities supporting collusion in the asymmetric setting is always smaller …

, collusion. …

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. …