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What determines cartel success?

What determines cartel success?. …a wide variety of variables!. Source: Margaret C. Levenstein, Valerie Y. Suslow: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Determinants of Cartel Duration. structural variables. - variance in and concentration of demand, - the structure and homogeneity of costs,

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What determines cartel success?

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  1. What determines cartel success? …a widevariety of variables! Source: Margaret C. Levenstein, Valerie Y. Suslow: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Determinants of Cartel Duration

  2. structural variables - variance in and concentration of demand, - the structure and homogeneity of costs, - the rate of technological change Etc. organizational factors • - distribution of power within the cartel, • its voting structure, • the sophistication of mechanisms for detecting and deterring cheating, • the ability of the cartel itself to create barriers to entry • etc external factors - government regulation -anti-trust enforcement

  3. idiosyncratic and history-dependent determinants • - how quickly the organization learns about cartel design, • the start-up costs of creating the cartel • the reputation of cartel members • Etc.

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