Bos, Iwan; Schinkel, Maarten-Pieter - 2009
between competitive and collusive basing-point pricing. We define a measure for the likelihood of collusion that can be used … to screen industries that traditionally apply delivered pricing for the presence of cartels. We operationalize this … screen with a software. The test is hard to beat for cartels using this otherwise elusive form of price-fixing. When a cartel …