On the sustainability of collusion in Bertrand supergames with discrete pricing and nonlinear demand
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Keywords
Bertrand supergames; cartels; collusion sustainability; discrete pricing; nonlinear demand;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
- L41 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2010-02-05 (Business Economics)
- NEP-COM-2010-02-05 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-ENE-2010-02-05 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-MIC-2010-02-05 (Microeconomics)
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