Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the principal theoretical and practical problems
of the economics of cartels, collusion, and horizontal merger. Because the new theoretical …

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This paper tests for price patterns in retail gasoline markets consistent with those predicted
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This paper proposes an empirical methodology for studying various (implicit or explicit)
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Table of Contents: Acknowledgements 5 1 Introduction and background 11 1.1 Research
methodology 12 1.1. 1 Industrial organization, competition and efficiency 13 1.1. 2 Oligopoly …