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Consumer switching costs cause the market demand of consumers who already bought a supplier's product to be less elastic while they simultaneously increase competition for new consumers. I study the effect of this twofold pricing incentive on firms' price setting behavior in a 2x2 factorial...
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We explore whether lawful cooperation in buyer groups facilitates collusion in the product market. Buyer groups … constitute credible threats. Hence, in theory, buyer groups facilitate collusion. We run several experimental treatments using …
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may get fined by a cartel authority. We find that four-firm industries form cartels more often than duopolies because they …
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We explore whether lawful cooperation in buyer groups facilitates collusion in the product market. Buyer groups … constitute credible threats. Hence, in theory, buyer groups facilitate collusion. We run several experimental treatments using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010426996
We explore the difference between explicit and tacit collusion by investigating the impact communication has in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010310323
may get fined by a cartel authority. We find that four-firm industries form cartels more often than duopolies because they …
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We explore the difference between explicit and tacit collusion by investigating the impact communication has in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956703
may get fined by a cartel authority. We find that four-firm industries form cartels more often than duopolies because they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956705
We explore the difference between explicit and tacit collusion by investigating the impact communication has in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011048634
may get fined by a cartel authority. We find that the four-firm industries form cartels more often than the duopolies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011076534