Der Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik mit Schwerpunkt Internet- und Telekommunikationswirtschaft und die Forschungsgruppe Data Policies freuen sich bekannt zu geben, dass der Artikel von Prof. Dr. Jan Krämer, Dr. Daniel Schnurr und Dr. Niklas Horstmann mit dem Titel "Number Effects and Tacit Collusion in Experimental Oligopolies" in The Journal of Industrial Economics (Volume 66, Issue 3, Pages 650-700) veröffentlicht wurde.
Abstract:
"We systematically investigate the relationship between the number of firms in a market and tacit collusion by means of a meta?analysis of the literature on oligopoly experiments as well as two of our own experiments with a total of 368 participants. We show that the degree of tacit collusion decreases strictly with the number of competitors in industries with two, three and four firms. Although previous literature could not affirm that triopolies are more collusive than quadropolies, we provide evidence for this fact for symmetric and asymmetric firms under Bertrand and Cournot competition."