A Study of the Internal Organization of a Bidding Cartel

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Learning to Coordinate: A Study in Retail Gasoline (2019, background): “These ex-post studies on cartel implemen tation include Clark and Houde (2013) (gasoline price fixing in Quebec), Asker (2010) (bidding”
Comparing Open and Sealed Bid Auctions: Evidence from Timber Auctions (2008, unknown): “Researchers have proposed several approaches to assess whether auction data are consistent with competitive or collusive bidding (Porter and Zona 1993, 1999; Baldwin, Marshall, and Richard 1997; Bajari 1997; Pesendorfer 2000; Bajari and Ye 2003; Asker 2010).”
Collusion with Asymmetric Retailers: Evidence from a Gasoline Price-Fixing Case (2013, background): “Similarly, Asker (2010) documents the role of knockout auctions introduced in the theory literature by Graham and Marshall (1987) to determine participation in auctions and allocate side-payments among cartel members.”
Detecting Bidders Groups in Collusive Auctions (2016, background): “A structural analysis in the spirit of Asker (2010) would be needed to properly pin down the counterfactual revenues for non-cooperating firms, but this is necessarily beyond the scope of the current paper.”
Can Electronic Procurement Improve Infrastructure Provision? Evidence From Public Works in India and Indonesia (2014, unknown): “To measure the quality of project implementation, we use quality reports submitted by the National Quality Monitors (NQMs).”