algorithms, so too will the types of collusion. We are shifting from the world where executives expressly collude in smoke … scenarios where AI can foster anticompetitive collusion and the legal and ethical challenges each scenario raises …

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 …

In the presence of network externalities, we compare the stability of collusion under Bertrand and Cournot duopoly with … competition than under Cournot competition in the sense of wide range of network externalities; (ii) collusion in prices …

collusion. The degree to which the regulated agents manage to collude will be affected by the particulars of the scheme. We … hypothesize that in a repeated game setting schemes will be more prone to collusion the smaller are the rents to the agents in …