Oligopoly experiments in the current millennium

J Potters, S Suetens - A Collection of Surveys on Market …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We present a general overview of papers that employ laboratory experiments to study
oligopoly markets. We focus on papers that have been published since 2000. We categorize …

Explicit vs. tacit collusion—The impact of communication in oligopoly experiments

MA Fonseca, HT Normann - European Economic Review, 2012 - Elsevier
We explore the difference between explicit and tacit collusion by investigating the impact
communication has in experimental markets. For Bertrand oligopolies with various numbers …

Detecting indications of financial statement fraud: a hexagon fraud theory approach

T Tarjo, A Anggono, E Sakti - AKRUAL: Jurnal Akuntansi, 2021 - journal.unesa.ac.id
This study emphasizes on examining the fraud hexagon theory referring to signs of fraud of
financial statements, which employs all manufacturing companies listed in the IDX …

Demand forecasting, signal precision, and collusion with hidden actions

S Martin, A Rasch - International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2024 - Elsevier
We analyze how higher demand-forecasting precision affects firms' chances of sustaining
supracompetitive profits, depending on whether actions are observable or hidden. We …

Explicit vs tacit collusion: The effects of firm numbers and asymmetries

L Garrod, M Olczak - International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2018 - Elsevier
In an infinitely repeated game where firms with (possibly asymmetric) capacity constraints
can make secret price cuts, we analyse the incentives for explicit collusion when firms can …

Collusion and bargaining in asymmetric Cournot duopoly—An experiment

C Fischer, HT Normann - European Economic Review, 2019 - Elsevier
In asymmetric dilemma games without side payments, players face involved cooperation
and bargaining problems. The maximization of joint profits is implausible, players disagree …

International reserves and the maturity of external debt

X Qian, A Steiner - Journal of International Money and Finance, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper studies how the level of international reserves affects the maturity structure of
external debt. We show in an illustrative theoretical model that reserves lengthen the …

[HTML][HTML] The relative efficacy of price announcements and express communication for collusion: Experimental findings

JE Harrington Jr, RH Gonzalez, P Kujal - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2016 - Elsevier
This study conducts experiments to determine the modes of communication that are able to
produce and sustain collusion and how the efficacy of communication depends on market …

Number effects and tacit collusion in experimental oligopolies

N Horstmann, J Krämer… - The Journal of Industrial …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We systematically investigate the relationship between the number of firms in a market and
tacit collusion by means of a meta‐analysis of the literature on oligopoly experiments as well …

Tacit collusion, firm asymmetries and numbers: evidence from EC merger cases

S Davies, M Olczak, H Coles - International Journal of Industrial …, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper estimates the implicit model, especially the roles of size asymmetries and firm
numbers, used by the European Commission to identify mergers with coordinated effects …