Identifying the degree of collusion under proportional reduction / by Oleksandr Shcherbakov and Naoki Wakamori. : FB3-5/2017-51E-PDF

"Proportional reduction is a common cartel practice in which cartel members reduce their output proportionately. We develop a method to quantify this reduction relative to a benchmark market equilibrium scenario and relate the reduction to the traditional conduct parameter. Our measure is continuous, allowing us to have an intuitive interpretation as the “degree of collusion” and nesting the earlier models in the existing literature. Furthermore, our methodology addresses Corts’ (1999) critique by estimating time-varying degree of collusion from a short panel of firm-level observations, exploiting firms’ ex post heterogeneity. We illustrate the method using the Joint Executive Committee railroad cartel data."--Abstract, p. ii.

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Ministère/Organisme Bank of Canada.
Titre Identifying the degree of collusion under proportional reduction / by Oleksandr Shcherbakov and Naoki Wakamori.
Titre de la série Bank of Canada staff working paper, 1701-9397 ; 2017-51
Type de publication Série - Voir l'enregistrement principal
Langue [Anglais]
Format Électronique
Document électronique
Note(s) "November 2017."
Includes bibliographical references.
Text in English, abstract in English and French.
Information sur la publication Ottawa : Bank of Canada, 2017.
Auteur / Contributeur Shcherbakov, Oleksandr.
Wakamori, Naoki.
Description ii, 48 p. : graphs
Numéro de catalogue
  • FB3-5/2017-51E-PDF
Descripteurs Industry analysis
Competition
Markets
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