Collusion and Durability
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چکیده
We develop a model to show that cartels that produce goods with lower durability are easier to sustain implicitly. This observation generates the following results: 1) implicit cartels have an incentive to produce goods with an inefficiently low level of durability; 2) a monopoly or explicit cartel is welfare superior to an implicit cartel; 3) welfare is non–monotonic in the number of firms; 4) a regulator may demand inefficiently high levels of durability to prevent collusion.
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