Collusion sustainability with optimal punishments and detection lags, with an application to a Cournot game

In this paper we characterize optimal punishments with detection lags when the market consists of n oligopolistic firms that compete à la Cournot. It is shown how in the presence of detection lags optimal punishments fail to restore cooperation as long as the number of lags increases. Moreover, coll...

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Main Authors: Ciarreta,Aitor, Gutiérrez-Hita,Carlos
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía 2013
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-52862013000200006
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