; collusion ; exclusive dealing ; minimum purchase clauses ; rebates …

Tacit collusion reduces welfare comparably to explicit collusion but remains mostly unaddressed by antitrust … that facilitate tacit collusion by providing quantitative evidence that links these actions to an anticompetitive market … about collusion. …

that resembles traditional tacit collusion, I conduct market experiments with human participants in the same environment …

agreement. I obtain that collusion is easier to sustain the larger the cartel is. Then, I explore the implications of this …, they risk that collusion completely collapses, as remaining cartel members are unable to sustain collusion. …

the corresponding increased potential for product market collusion. We consider all trajectories that are candidates for …. Product market collusion could thus yield higher total surplus. …

first investigate the extent to which collusive agreements are feasible. Secondly, we focus on collusion sustainability in … an infinitely repeated game. We show that, regardless of the degree of cost asymmetry, at least some collusion is always … sustainable. Finally, the degree of collusion is also endogeneised to show that cooperation has an upper bound determined by the …