Book contents
- Cartels Diagnosed
- Cartels Diagnosed
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Entry Barriers, Personal Relationships, and Cartel Formation
- 2 “Now You Are Asking for a Real War!”
- 3 Coordinating Fuel Surcharges
- 4 Price Fixing or Fixing Competition?
- 5 The Role of Platforms for Facilitating Anticompetitive Communication
- 6 Collusion with Non-express Communication
- 7 Cartel Instability and Price Wars
- 8 Coordinated Rebate Reductions and Semi-collusion
- 9 Average Bid Auction Format Facilitates Bidding Rings
- 10 The Challenges of Cartelization with Many Products and Ongoing Technological Advancements
- 11 Two Cartels in the Supply Chain
- 12 Is it Collusion or Competition behind Price Parallelism?
- 12.1 Introduction: Background to the Case, the HCC Investigation and Its Findings
- 12.2 Market Analysis: Do Market Conditions Support the Hypothesis of a Strong Likelihood of Tacit Collusion?
- 12.3 Likelihood of Tacit Collusion: Screen Tests
- 12.4 Econometric Analysis of the Greek Steel Market
- 12.5 Concluding Remarks
- Appendix 1 Notations
- Appendix 2 Demand Model
- Appendix 3 Supply Side
- Appendix 4 Specification
Appendix 5 - Estimated Parameters of the Models and Main Relevant Test Statistics
from 12 - Is it Collusion or Competition behind Price Parallelism?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 December 2024
Book contents
- Cartels Diagnosed
- Cartels Diagnosed
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Entry Barriers, Personal Relationships, and Cartel Formation
- 2 “Now You Are Asking for a Real War!”
- 3 Coordinating Fuel Surcharges
- 4 Price Fixing or Fixing Competition?
- 5 The Role of Platforms for Facilitating Anticompetitive Communication
- 6 Collusion with Non-express Communication
- 7 Cartel Instability and Price Wars
- 8 Coordinated Rebate Reductions and Semi-collusion
- 9 Average Bid Auction Format Facilitates Bidding Rings
- 10 The Challenges of Cartelization with Many Products and Ongoing Technological Advancements
- 11 Two Cartels in the Supply Chain
- 12 Is it Collusion or Competition behind Price Parallelism?
- 12.1 Introduction: Background to the Case, the HCC Investigation and Its Findings
- 12.2 Market Analysis: Do Market Conditions Support the Hypothesis of a Strong Likelihood of Tacit Collusion?
- 12.3 Likelihood of Tacit Collusion: Screen Tests
- 12.4 Econometric Analysis of the Greek Steel Market
- 12.5 Concluding Remarks
- Appendix 1 Notations
- Appendix 2 Demand Model
- Appendix 3 Supply Side
- Appendix 4 Specification
- Type
- Chapter
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- Cartels DiagnosedNew Insights on Collusion, pp. 379 - 382Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025