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I model the strategic interaction between firms, that face decisions on investment, forward contracts and spot market quantities. For an investment decision that takes place after firms have contracted forward but before firms compete on the spot market (medium term investment), competition...
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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. …
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We examine recent claims that a particular Q-learning algorithm used by competitors 'autonomously' and systematically learns to collude, resulting in supracompetitive prices and extra profits for the firms sustained by collusive equilibria. A detailed analysis of the inner workings of this...
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constrained. We show that collusion sustainability is non-monotonic in the size of the capacity constrained firm, which has little …
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policy. We address four core subject areas: market power, collusion, mergers between competitors, and monopolization. In each …
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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 …
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and cost asymmetry. A dynamic collusion game is constructed, and backward induction is employed to solve the subgame … downstream collusion when the cost asymmetry is large and network externalities are relatively weak. …
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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....
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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 …
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We investigate the possibility for two vertically related firms to at least partially collude on the wholesale price over an in.nite horizon to mitigate or eliminate the e¤ects of double marginalisation, thereby avoiding contracts which might not be enforceable. We characterise alternative...
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