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The Value of Privacy in Cartels : An Analysis of the Inner Workings of a Bidding Ring

Kawai, Kei; Nakabayashi, Jun; Ortner, Juan M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study the inner workings of a bidding cartel focusing on the way in which bidders communicate with one another … regarding how each bidder should bid. We show that the designated winner of the cartel can attain higher payoffs by randomizing … theoretical predictions are borne out in practice by studying a bidding cartel that operated in the town of Kumatori, Japan …

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Complementary bidding and the collusive arrangement : evidence from an antitrust investigation

Clark, Robert; Coviello, Decio; Leverano, Adriano de - 2020

paper, we present evidence from an actual procurement cartel uncovered during an anticollusion investigation that reconciles … these two points of view and shows that both patterns arise naturally together as part of a cartel arrangement featuring …

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Sweet lemons : mitigating collusion in organizations

Pollrich, Martin; Negenborn, Colin von - 2018

This paper shows that the possibility of collusion between an agent and a supervisor imposes no restrictions on the set of implementable social choice functions (SCF) and associated payoff vectors. Any SCF and any payoff profile that are implementable if the supervisor's information was public...

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Collusion in public procurement : the role of subcontracting

Cesi, B.; Lorusso, M. - In: Economia politica : journal of analytical and … 37 (2020) 1, pp. 251-265

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Interactions across firms and bid rigging

Bergman, Mats A.; Lundberg, Johan; Lundberg, Sofia; … - In: Review of industrial organization 56 (2020) 1, pp. 107-130

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Bidding collusion without passive updating

Zheng, Charles Zhoucheng - In: Journal of mathematical economics 85 (2019), pp. 70-77

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Auction design in the presence of collusion

Pavlov, Gregory - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 3 (2008) 3, pp. 383-429

We study a problem of optimal auction design in the realistic case in which the players can collude both on the way they play in the auction and on their participation decisions. Despite the fact that the principal's opportunities for extracting payments from the agents in such a situation are...

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On cartel detection and Moran's I

Lundberg, Johan - In: Letters in spatial and resource sciences : LSRS 10 (2017) 1, pp. 129-139

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Marketing agencies and collusive bidding in online ad auctions

Decarolis, Francesco; Goldmanis, Maris; Penta, Antonio - 2019

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Weak cartels and collusion-proof auctions

Che, Yeon-Koo; Condorelli, Daniele; Kim, Jinwoo - In: Journal of economic theory 178 (2018), pp. 398-435

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