Seminar on "Upstream Collusion with Down Stream Compensation"

講者:	姚志勇教授 副教授 復旦大學管理學院
日期:	2021年1月26日 (星期二)
時間:	10:30-12:00
地點:	Zoom (ID:992 7974 1042)

Abstract:  
Many cartels exist in supply chains with powerful buyers. These buyers have incentive and information to report the cartels to the antitrust authorities or sue the cartel members. Therefore, successful upstream collusions not only need to prevent the collusive members from deviating, but also have to compensate the downstream firms. Using repeat game, this paper studies the stability of upstream collusion, taking into account the downstream compensation. Different from the standard collusion theory, the relationship between cartel incidence and market concentration is likely to be non-monotonic, or it is the inverted U-shape.

Biography:
Zhiyong Yao, Associate Professor of Economics, School of Management, Fudan University. He’s got his BA and MA from Beijing University, PhD from UCLA. He studies and teaches Industrial Economics, Managerial Economics, and Financial Economics. He’s published in academic Journals, such as Rand Journal of Economics, Journal of Mathematical Economics, etc.