Conspiracies and secret price discounts in the marketplace: Evidence from field experiments

RAND Journal of Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 700-717

  List, John A ^a,b   Price, Michael K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

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