Online Appendix to "Private Monitoring and Communication in Cartels: Explaining Recent Collusive Practices"
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Assume that i q; m; p depends only on pair-wise price di¤erences; this property can be derived from a consumer choice model with quasi-linear preferences in money. where 1 n is a vector of ones of length n: Also, assume that the FOC is su¢ cient to characterize a unique equilibrium for any symmetric cost structure. Let i m; p denote the corresponding vector specifying the probabilities over di¤erent quantities
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تاریخ انتشار 2011