Do buyer groups facilitate collusion?
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Keywords
buyer groups; cartels; collusion; communication; experiments; repeated games;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C7 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory
- C9 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments
- L4 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies
- L41 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2014-11-28 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-EXP-2014-11-28 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-GTH-2014-11-28 (Game Theory)
- NEP-IND-2014-11-28 (Industrial Organization)
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