Economic indicators for the presence of tacit collusion in merger control under varied focal points
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Keywords
Identifying Tacit Coordination; Customer Geographic Focal points; Collusion; Merger Analysis.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L4 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies
- 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-COM-2015-06-13 (Industrial Competition)
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