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 …

to game-theoretic reasoning, our results show that collusion is significantly larger when the demand shrinks than when it … facilitates collusion and discourages deviation. …

-communication’ and a free-communication device. We find that the effect of communication on collusion is larger in duopoly than in … and crowds out the effect of myopic best response. Finally, in all treatments duopoly results in more collusion than … triopoly. -- Artefactual field experiment ; subject pools ; Cournot oligopoly ; managers ; cheap talk …

marginal costs and production technologies. The paper models the incentive to collude in a differentiated products Bertrand-oligopoly … empirical methods used in the detection of cartels. -- Collusion ; Cartel Detection ; Cartel Formation ; Differential Evolution …

stay away from investment wars. Using the results from 107 published experiments on oligopoly, a meta-study shows that … 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 …

expected. -- Oligopoly ; Collusion ; experiment ; Uncertainty ; negative externalities ; prisoner's dilemma … 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 …

In this paper, we tackle the dilemma of pruning versus proliferation in a vertically differentiated oligopoly under the …

are sufficiently high, trade liberalization facilitates collusion. Exactly the opposite is true if, for any given degree … of product substitutability, trade costs are sufficiently low. We also study the dependence of multimarket collusion on …