Bidding Rings: An entry for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online
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A bidding ring is a collection of bidders who collude in an auction in order to gain greater surplus by depressing competition. This entry describes some typical bidding rings and provides an introduction to the related theoretical and empirical literature.
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