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Price Ceilings as Focal Points for Tacit Collusion: Evidence from Credit Cards

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  49. Mark Armstrong, 2015. "Search and Ripoff Externalities," Review of Industrial Organization, Springer;The Industrial Organization Society, vol. 47(3), pages 273-302, November.
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