Collusion is an illegal practice by which some competing companies secretly agree on the
prices (bids) they will submit to a future auction. Worldwide, collusion is a pervasive …

We attempt to provide a systemic view of the process of regulating collusion, including
detection and prosecution as well as bargaining between firms and regulators via consent …

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 …

Motivated by online advertising auctions, we study auction design in repeated auctions
played by simple Artificial Intelligence algorithms (Q-learning). We find that first-price …

One of the most used types of auctions in the smart grid is the double auction, in which both
buyers and sellers can respectively submit their bids and asks to participate in the auction. In …

We address whether the joint bidding by private equity consortiums facilitates collusion in
the takeover market. We employ a sample of 870 takeovers of publicly traded targets in the …

One of the central issues in auction design is how much information should be disclosed to
bidders. In this paper, we examine bidder's identity disclosure in sequential business-to …

Environmental markets have several institutional features that provide a new context for the
use of auctions and that have not been studied previously. This paper reports on laboratory …

While, in practice, the participation of private actors at the local and national government
levels through various types of contractual agreements has been increasing over the last …

Recent developments in the area of Bid Tender Forecasting have enabled bidders to
implement new types of easy-to-use tools for increasing their chances of winning contracts …