clearing an R&D agreement can be beneficial since it removes the additional collusion incentive resulting from fear that … risk of collusion in the product market if products are substitutes, if capacity cannot immediately be extended, if market …

is highest if only the competitor(s) is (are) loyal to the cartel. Yet collusion inflicts harm on the opposite market … we add beliefs as a control variable, we only find that externalities enhance cooperation, even if gains from collusion … expected. -- Oligopoly ; Collusion ; experiment ; Uncertainty ; negative externalities ; prisoner's dilemma …

; Collusion ; Entry deterrence …

persistent shocks. The decision maker incurs opportunity costs of collusion and chooses the conduct of a firm in order to … costs and the discount factor collusion can be stable in no, one, or both states of the industry. When collusion is stable … persistent, collusion is stable in the bad state. -- cartel formation ; collusion ; concavity ; persistence …

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 …

critical discount factor required to sustain collusion. This result is shown to hold for Cournot oligopoly as well as for … Bertrand oligopoly when collusion is sustained with Nash-reversion strategies or optimal-punishment strategies. In a Cournot …

has changed such that "tacit collusion" or "coordinated effects" become disturbingly more likely. It seems that antitrust … conceivable determinant of higher or lower collusion has been tested. This paper standardises the evidence by way of a meta …