• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Credible Collusion in Spatially Separated Markets*
  • Contributor: Gross, John; Holahan, William L.
  • imprint: Wiley, 2003
  • Published in: International Economic Review
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1111/1468-2354.t01-1-00071
  • ISSN: 0020-6598; 1468-2354
  • Keywords: Economics and Econometrics
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  • Description: <jats:p>In an infinitely repeated game, sellers employ a trigger strategy of mutual forbearance from invasion of each other's markets, stabilized against invasion by the threat of Bertrand pricing. Contrary to conventional static models, this article shows stability for a wide range of transportation costs and present value parameters, and that increases in transportation costs tend to destabilize the collusive agreement.</jats:p>