constitute credible threats. Hence, in theory, buyer groups facilitate collusion. We run several experimental treatments using …

We analyze how leniency affects cartel pricing in an infinitely-repeated oligopoly model where the fine rates are … we focus on the worst possible outcome. We investigate the maximal cartel price, the largest price for which the … conditions for sustainability hold. We analyze how the maximal cartel price supported by different cartel strategies adjusts in …

competing firms provided that they consider collusive prices to be kind and punishment prices to be unkind. Thus, reciprocity …

profits in the form of higher wages and benefits. A threat to this cartel is an employer who wants to bargain with the union …-association employer’s union employees’ interests is not available. In enforcing this scheme a cartel’s primary tactic is the use of “most … scholars, antitrust law is an ineffective tool to remedy union-association cartel behavior. Instead, the Article puts forward …

and higher costs. We examine Canada's alleged bread cartel and provide the first comprehensive analysis of hub …