Collusion with persistent cost shocks

Econometrica

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 493-540

  Athey, Susan ^a,b   Bagwell, Kyle ^b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NBER ^*

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Auctions; Collusion; Dynamic games; Persistent private information

Indexed keywords

EID: 42449115421     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0262.2008.00845.x     Document Type: Article

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