Collusion under Imperfect Monitoring with Asymmetric Firms
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- Luke Garrod & Matthew Olczak, 2017. "Collusion Under Imperfect Monitoring with Asymmetric Firms," Journal of Industrial Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 65(3), pages 654-682, September.
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Keywords
capacity constraints; mergers; collusion; imperfect monitoring;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- K21 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - Antitrust Law
- L12 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Monopoly; Monopolization Strategies
- 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-2016-05-08 (Business Economics)
- NEP-COM-2016-05-08 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-IND-2016-05-08 (Industrial Organization)
- NEP-MIC-2016-05-08 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-PKE-2016-05-08 (Post Keynesian Economics)
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