In 1945, the Aluminum Company of America (" Alcoa") was like the Apple or Amazon of
today. Founded by a backyard inventor who had discovered a low-cost way of smelting …

We explore the impacts of different antitrust regimes on managers' labor contracts, when
shareholders are intent on their managers engaging in price fixing activities. We compare …

In this article, using a detailed micro-database from Santiago, Chile, the potential existence
of tacit collusion in housing markets is investigated. In order to perform the test, Santiago's …

There are well-documented episodes of prices remaining at supracompetitive levels even
after a cartel was shut down by the competition authority. As long as market conditions …

We investigate the effects of group size and matching protocol in Tullock contest
experiments. In a 2× 2 factorial design, we implement partner and random stranger …

Bentham's wisdom, from almost two centuries ago, is still relevant for all aspects of criminal
behavior. Hence, deterrence of such behavior is still an important issue. Becker (1968) …

We investigate the effects of group size and matching protocol in Tullock contest
experiments. In a 2x2 factorial design we implement partner and random stranger matching …

Antitrust laws prohibit collusion by private firms, yet many types of interfirm cooperation are
legal. Using laboratory experiments, we study spillovers from legal cooperation in one …

In this article, an approach to detect collusive conduct at the firm level is proposed, which
consists of comparing implied marginal costs under alternative approaches that focus on (i) …

I analyze pricing behavior before and after the detection of an air cargo cartel using a novel,
hand-collected dataset. I find that prices did not decline after the cartel's detection …