The field of mergers and acquisitions and sustainability has been expanding in the last
years; consequently, there is a need for a systematic review of the existing body of …

Recently there has been a notable increase in interest in antitrust law in much of the world.
This chapter discusses antitrust policy toward horizontal mergers, the area of antitrust that …

Some pundits claim cyber weaponry is the most important military innovation in decades, a
transformative new technology that promises a paralyzing first-strike advantage difficult for …

An examination of collusive behavior: what it is, why it is profitable, how it is implemented,
and how it might be detected. Explicit collusion is an agreement among competitors to …

Detecting cartels Page 1 Harrington, Joseph E. Working Paper Detecting cartels Working Paper,
No. 526 Provided in Cooperation with: Department of Economics, The Johns Hopkins University …

This chapter examines recent developments in economic research relating to antitrust,
paying specific attention to research in the areas of collusion and merger enforcement …

In the context of an infinitely repeated capacity‐constrained price game, we endogenize the
composition of a cartel when firms are heterogeneous in their capacities. When firms are …

We study a repeated game of price leadership in which a firm proposes supermarkups over
Bertrand prices to a coalition of rivals. Supermarkups and marginal costs are recoverable …

Do mergers help or hinder collusion? This article studies the stability of the vitamin cartels in
the 1990s and presents a repeated-games approach to quantify “coordinated effects” of a …

Cost asymmetry is generally thought to hinder collusion because a more efficient firm has
both more to gain from deviations and less to fear from retaliation than less efficient firms …