analysis and investigates whether they operate efficiently. The CFD cartel-audit should enable the detection of cartels via … patterns. The CFD cartel-audit attempts to draw conclusions from these patterns in order to find hidden cartels and to engage …

We investigate the effect of a ban on third-degree price discrimination on the sustainability of collusion. We build a …' discount factor has to be higher in order to sustain collusion in grim-trigger strategies under price discrimination than under …

profits in the form of higher wages and benefits. A threat to this cartel is an employer who wants to bargain with the union …-association employer’s union employees’ interests is not available. In enforcing this scheme a cartel’s primary tactic is the use of “most … scholars, antitrust law is an ineffective tool to remedy union-association cartel behavior. Instead, the Article puts forward …

organizing a mobile phone cartel with stable market shares (one-half, one-third and one-sixth respectively) and for directly … cartel, BT was too small for it to be worth its while to join it; it is not necessary to exchange information directly to … assuming that the costs are kept the same when switching from Cournot competition to any form of cartel. We deduced that market …

increased potential for product market collusion. We consider all trajectories that are candidates for an optimal solution as … initial technologies, pursue innovations more quickly, and are less likely to abandon a technology. Product market collusion …

This paper develops a model that formalizes several connections between mergers, collusion and competition policy. In … equilibrium, firms may merge to make collusion sustainable when it cannot be sustained with the original set of firms. A rise in … the probability of detecting and prosecuting collusion could induce a wave of mergers, so firms can sustain collusion …

. We focus on a German coffee producer cartel that colluded under two different regimes: (i) involving wholesale prices in … without resale price maintenance in 2003. The cartel, however, broke down a few months after the announcement. The collusive … overcharge increased to 14% after the introduction of resale price maintenance, and the cartel lasted for a few years. We …

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 …