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Leadership Cartels in Industries with Differentiated Products

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    This article analyses cartels that act as a Stackelberg leader with respect to a competitive fringe in industries supplying differentiated products. The main objectives are to investigate how cartel stability changes with the degree of differentiation and the cartel size, to predict endogenous cartels and to carry out a welfare analysis. Both repeated and static games are considered as well as industries competing in quantities and prices.

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    Paper provided by University of Warwick, Department of Economics in its series The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) with number 590.

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    Length: 30 pages
    Date of creation: 2001
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    Handle: RePEc:wrk:warwec:590

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    Keywords: CARTELS ; GAMES ; COMPETITION ; SIZE OF INDUSTRY;

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    1. Marc Escrihuela-Villar, 2009. "Does cartel leadership facilitate collusion?," DEA Working Papers 39, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Departament d'Economía Aplicada.

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