TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harrington,Joseph E.
AU  - Schinkel,Maarten-Pieter
TI  - Cartels Diagnosed: New Insights on Collusion 
SN  - 9781009428484
AV  - HD2757.5 .C38 2024
U1  - 338.8/7 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY, USA
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Cartels
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Entry barriers, personal relationships, and cartel formation -- "Now you are asking for a real war!" -- coordinating fuel surcharges -- Price fixing competition? The role of platforms for facilitating anticompetitive communication -- Collusion with non-express communication -- Cartel instability and price wars -- coordinated rebate reductions and semi-collusion -- Average bid auction format facilitates bidding rings -- The challenges of cartelization with many products and ongoing technological advancements -- Two cartels in the supply chain -- Is it collusion or competition behind the price parallelism?
N2  - "Illustrates new and sophisticated properties of cartels in case studies that can support developing new collusive theories and practice. This book assists in understanding new cartel mechanisms and their effects, detecting cartels, distinguishing collusion from competition, and measuring harm"--
ER  -