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Infrastructure's long-lived impact on urban development : theory and empirics
Grimes, Arthur L.; Apatov, Eyal; Lutchmann, Larissa; … - 2014
We analyse the impacts that infrastructure provision has on long run urban development. The topic is of major importance to policy-makers when deciding whether or not to invest in major infrastructure projects. The analysis helps policy-makers to understand the intended, and potentially...
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La collusion dans les firmes
Vafaï, Kouroche - In: Revue économique : revue bimestrielle 66 (2015) 4, pp. 687-702
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Manufacturer cartels and resale price maintenance
Hunold, Matthias; Muthers, Johannes - 2020
We provide a theory of how RPM facilitate upstream cartels absent any information asymmetries using a model with … manufacturers if they collude. We thus provide a novel theory of harm for resale price maintenance when manufacturers collude and … illustrate the fit of this theory in various competition policy cases. …
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Endogenous choice of minority shareholdings : effects on product market competition
Haas, Samuel de - 2019
Non-controlling minority shareholdings in rivals (NCMS) lower the sustainability of collusion under a wide variety of circumstances. Nevertheless, NCMS are sometimes deemed to facilitate collusion, in particular if the level of NCMS is exogenous. The present paper endogenizes firms' choice of...
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Optimal destabilization of cartels
Auer, Ludwig von; Tu Anh Pham - 2020
A model-based derivation of an effective antitrust policy requires an economic framework that includes three actors: a cartel, a group of competing fringe firms, and a welfare maximizing antitrust authority. In existing models of cartel behavior, at least one of these actors is always missing....
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Anchoring, reference prices, and list price collusion
Paha, Johannes - 2019
The firms in this model set non-binding list prices before competing for buyers by non-cooperatively granting discounts. Each firm has an incentive to set a high list price if, for example, the customers anchor their willingness-to-pay on the list price. However, list price competition occurs if...
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Multi-product pricing and minimum resale price maintenance
Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Wey, Christian - 2021
We provide a novel explanation for why manufacturers want to enforce a minimum resale price (min RPM) on retailers. A manufacturer sells her good via a multi-product retailer to final consumers by charging a linear wholesale price. The manufacturer then maximizes her profit through min RPM...
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How do sanctions work? : the choice between cartel formation and tacit collusion
Andres, Maximilian; Bruttel, Lisa Verena; Friedrichsen, Jana - 2021
This paper analyzes the inner workings of cartels. To understand how sanctioning institutions prevent cartel formation we study their effect on firms' communication in a laboratory experiment. Using machine learning to organize the chat communication into topics, we find that firms are less...
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Relative performance evaluation, sabotage and collusion
Bloomfield, Matthew J.; Marvão, Catarina; Spagnolo, … - In: Journal of accounting & economics 76 (2023) 2/3, pp. 1-27
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Efficient earmarking under decentralized fiscal commitments
Silva, Emilson C. D. - In: International tax and public finance 22 (2015) 4, pp. 683-701
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