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Abstract

The purpose of this article is to suggest a straightforward method of utilizing circumstantial output-pricing evidence, grounded in generally accepted economic analysis to (a) differentiate bid rigging and customer/market-allocation schemes, based on some form of explicit communications or explicit agreements among rival sellers, from noncooperative tacit collusion (sheer sophisticated business acumen as hypothesized in various game-theoretic models), and (b) to identify the collusion process with greater precision.

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