Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/94116 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
SFB/TR 15 Discussion Paper No. 240
Publisher: 
Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 15 - Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems (GESY), München
Abstract: 
Though there is a body of theoretical literature on research joint ventures (RJV) participation facilitating collusion, empirical tests are rare. Even more so, there are few empirical tests on the general theme of collusion. This note tries to fill this gap by assuming a correspondence between the stability of research joint ventures and collusion. By using data from the US Nation Cooperation Research Act, we show that large RJVs in concentrated industries are more stable and hence more suspect to collusion.
Subjects: 
research joint ventures
product market collusion
empirical test
JEL: 
L24
L44
L52
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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