We aim to provide a tool for independent system operators to detect the collusion and
identify the colluding firms by using day-ahead data. In this paper, an approach based on …

Collusive bidding has been a major concern for both antitrust authorities and clients
because it can inflate winning prices to artificially high levels. Deciding to initiate such an …

The present article uses game experiments to understand the dynamics of oligopolistic
competition in liner shipping markets. We show how a limited number of carriers, interacting …

We aim to understand the effect of market and firm-level concentration on return on equity in
the Indian life microinsurance industry (LMI). This research is one of the first attempts to …

In this paper we consider the Pure and Impure Prisoner's Dilemmas. Our purpose is to
theoretically extend them when using non-Archimedean quantities and to work with them …

In this paper, we show that, compared with no network externalities, firms always obtain
higher profits and social welfare in the presence of positive network externalities …

Conventional wisdom is that collusion between firms will be destabilized when they produce
closer substitutes of products. We show that, in the presence of strong network externalities …

Purpose This paper aims to examine the effect of product market competition on firms'
unethical behavior (FUB) in the Chinese insurance industry and to further explore the …

We study the price and welfare effects of collusion between two-sided platforms and show
that they depend on whether collusion occurs on both sides or a single side of the market …

This research analyzes the impact of banks' peer effect in lending on the bank concentration‐
crisis nexus for the period 2015–2021 in the United States. The analysis finds that a high …