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Choosing whether to compete: Price and format competition with consumer confusion
Crosetto, Paolo; Gaudeul, Alexia - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We run a market experiment where firms can choose not only their price but also whether to present comparable offers. They are faced with artificial demand from consumers who make mistakes when assessing the net value of products on the market. If some offers are comparable however, some...
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A note on consumer flexibility, data quality and collusion
Hasnas, Irina - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2014
In this note we analyze the sustainability of collusion in a game of repeated interaction where firms can price … improvement in data quality it is more difficult to sustain collusion. …
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Chapter 31 Coordination and Lock-In: Competition with Switching Costs and Network Effects
Farrell, Joseph; Klemperer, Paul - In: Handbook of industrial organization : volume 3, (pp. 1967-2072). 2007
although competition between incompatible networks is initially unstable and sensitive to competitive offers and random events …
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Coordination and Lock-In : Competition with Switching Costs and Network Effects
Farrell, Joseph; Klemperer, Paul - 2014
incompatible networks is initially unstable and sensitive to competitive offers and random events, it later tips to monopoly, after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014026899
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Price matching in online retail
Bottasso, Anna; Robbiano, Simone; Marocco, Paolo - 2023
We analyze a sample of consumer-electronics products sold by the US NewEgg online-retailer to study the impact of Price Matching Guarantees (PMGs) policies on prices. By applying aDifference-in-Differences approach,we find that prices of the policy-adopting retailer increase by 4.7% during the...
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Oligopoly as a socially embedded dilemma: An experiment
Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281843
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Oligopoly as a socially embedded dilemma : an experiment
Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008822475
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Leniency Inflation, Cartel Damages and Criminalization
Marvão, Catarina M. P.; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2021
We revisit the pros and cons of cartel criminalization with focus on its possible introduction in the EU. We document a recent phenomenon that we name EU ``leniency inflation", whereby leniency has been increasingly awarded to many, and sometimes all members of a cartel. We argue that, coupled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221273
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Actions Speak Louder than Words : econometric evidence to target tacit collusion in oligopolistic markets
Andreoli Versbach, Patrick; Franck, Jens-Uwe - 2013
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. …
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Collusion, competition and piracy
Martínez-Sánchez, Francisco - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2009
sufficiently. We alsoshow that a lower cost of copying facilitates collusion but that a higherquality of the copy hinders collusion …
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