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We analyze how leniency affects cartel pricing in an infinitely-repeated oligopoly model where the fine rates are … we focus on the worst possible outcome. We investigate the maximal cartel price, the largest price for which the … conditions for sustainability hold. We analyze how the maximal cartel price supported by different cartel strategies adjusts in …
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disentangles the effects of traditional antitrust regulation, leniency, and cartel strategies. Without rewards to the strictly …We analyze maximal cartel prices in infinitely-repeated oligopoly models under leniency where fines are linked to … illegal gains, as often outlined in existing antitrust regulation, and detection probabilities depend on the degree of …
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disentangles the effects of traditional antitrust regulation, leniency, and cartel strategies. Without rewards to the strictly …We analyze maximal cartel prices in infinitely-repeated oligopoly models under leniency where fines are linked to … illegal gains, as often outlined in existing antitrust regulation, and detection probabilities depend on the degree of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326004
antitrust regulation on the endogenous maximal-sustainable cartel price. This impact depends upon industry characteristics … including its cartel culture. Our analysis disentangles the effects of traditional antitrust regulation and the leniency program …
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antitrust regulation on the endogenous maximal-sustainable cartel price. This impact depends upon industry characteristics … including its cartel culture. Our analysis disentangles the effects of traditional antitrust regulation and the leniency program …
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This paper experimentally analyzes the cartel coordination challenge induced by the discrimination of cartel … ringleaders in leniency policies. Ringleaders often take a leading role in the coordination and formation of a cartel. A leniency … ringleader and may disrupt cartel formation. We analyze discriminatory and non-discriminatory leniency policies in a multi …
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significantly decreased cartel activity. The design of these repeated game experiments however is such that engaging in illegal … the antitrust authority and the leniency program are directed exclusively to the most straightforward collusive scheme …
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significantly decreased cartel activity. The design of these repeated game experiments however is such that engaging in illegal … the antitrust authority and the leniency program are directed exclusively to the most straightforward collusive scheme …
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A competition authority has an objective, which specifies what output profile firms need to produce as a function of production costs. These costs change over time and are only known by the firms. The objective is implementable if inequilibrium, the firms cannot collude on their reports to the...
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