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The Role of Demand Information and Monitoring on Tacit Collusion
The RAND Journal of Economics (2012)
  • Christian Rojas, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Abstract
Motivated by the Green and Porter (1984) and Rotemberg and Saloner (1986) models, we construct lab experiments to test the effects of two factors on collusion: information (regarding next period's demand state) and monitoring (of a rival's past action). Results indicate that information may facilitate collusion more than monitoring, especially as subjects gain experience. A robust finding is that subjects in the Rotemberg and Saloner treatment cooperate as predicted by this theory: collusion falls dramatically in anticipation of unusually large demand and returns to high levels otherwise. These results suggest that tacit and fairly elaborate collusion could arise in stochastic environments.
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Publication Date
Spring 2012
Publisher Statement
Doi: 10.1111/j.1756-2171.2012.00157.x
Citation Information
Christian Rojas. "The Role of Demand Information and Monitoring on Tacit Collusion" The RAND Journal of Economics Vol. 43 Iss. 1 (2012)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/christian_rojas/1/