Collusive price rigidity under price-matching punishments

By analysing an infinitely repeated game where unit costs alternate stochastically between low and high states and where firms follow a price-matching punishment strategy, we demonstrate that the best collusive prices are rigid over time when the two cost levels are sufficiently close. This provides...

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Main Author: Luke Garrod
Format: Default Conference proceeding
Published: 2011
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Other economics not elsewhere classified
Tacit collusion
Kinked demand curve
Price rigidity
Economics not elsewhere classified
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/16800
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