How Product Innovation Can Affect Price Collusion
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Keywords
price collusion; product innovation; antitrust; experimental economics;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L41 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
- L10 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - General
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2018-04-23 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-EXP-2018-04-23 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-GTH-2018-04-23 (Game Theory)
- NEP-INO-2018-04-23 (Innovation)
- NEP-TID-2018-04-23 (Technology and Industrial Dynamics)
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