Maintaining Privacy in Cartels

It is conventional wisdom that transparency in cartels—monitoring of competitors’ prices, sales, and profits—facilitates collusion. However, in several recent cases cartels have instead worked to preserve the privacy of their participants’ actions and outcomes. Toward explaining this behavior, we sh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sugaya, Takuo, Wolitzky, Alexander Greenberg
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Chicago Press 2019
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122787