Screening for collusion: a spatial statistics approach

Authors
Publication date 2015
Journal Journal of Economic Geography
Volume | Issue number 15 | 2
Pages (from-to) 417-448
Organisations
  • Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
Abstract We develop a method to screen for local cartels. We first test whether there is statistical evidence of clustering of outlets that score high on some characteristic that is consistent with collusive behavior. If so, we determine in a second step the most suspicious regions where further antitrust investigation would be warranted. We apply our method to build a variance screen for the Dutch gasoline market.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbu012
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