Fighting collusion has long been a challenge in organizations, whilst favoritism in organizations has long been attacked as one of the most important sources of workplace conflicts. This paper links the phenomena of collusion and favoritism together which seem to be irrelevant. We show that...

In a model of repeated Cournot competition under complete information, I show how the existence of a fringe of managerial firms affects the stability of a cartel of strict profit-maximizing firms. There always exists a critical dimension of the fringe that makes the cartel unstable, and this...

Spieltheoretische Betrachtung von Oligopolen und Kollusion in Kontraktmärkten -- Experimentelle Untersuchung zum Einfluss von Monitoring, Kommunikation, Absprachetypen und Markthistorie auf Kollusion -- Statistische Hypothesenüberprüfung anhand einer Inhaltsanalyse und multivariaten...