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. …

that low-price guarantees robustly facilitate tacit collusion, by reducing a deviating firm's immediate deviation profit …

; this is equivalent to modeling firms as an implicit cartel playing a punishment game. We show that coordination can …

How does the organizational form of loan syndicates evolve and what are the effects on price collusion? We develop a … with Hatfield et al. (2017), we find however that price collusion of concentrated syndicates only occurs during periods of … concentration affect price collusion …

We suggest a price signaling strategy that offers a microfoundation for the process leading to tacit collusion under … signaling can effectively mitigate the emergence of tacit collusion …

algorithmic pricing agents on markets will increase occurrences of tacit collusion by orders of magnitude, and well beyond the … scale on markets can lead to tacit collusion. While we do not deny the fact that smart pricing agents can enter into tacit … collusion and that regulators may be right to be vigilant, we find that there are several technological challenges in the …