A Study of Cartel Stability

Porter, R. H. (1983). A Study of Cartel Stability: The Joint Executive Committee, 1880-1886.

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Year

1983

Pages cited

1880-1886

DOI

10.2307/3003634

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• Folk Theorem (Repeated Games)
  • Robert Porter's (1983) study of the Joint Executive Committee — a legal railroad cartel that set eastbound grain freight rates from Chicago to the Atlantic seaboard in the 1880s

    This sourceFinds that the JEC's weekly prices switched between collusive and noncooperative regimes, rejecting the hypothesis that demand and cost shifts alone explain them.

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