Detecting bid-riggin coalitions in different countries and auction formats
Description
The R-script 'Code_Imhof_Wallimann' is the code of the paper by David Imhof and Hannes Wallimann: Detecting bid-rigging coalitions in different countries and auction formats published in the International Review of Law and Economics (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irle.2021.106016). If you use our data, please quote the paper. In addition, we provide the following data sets prepared for the paper: - Okinawa cartel (see also Ishii, 2014, Huber et al., 2020): 'Japanesedata' - Swiss cartels (see also Wallimann et al., 2020): 'Swissdata' - Italian cartels (see also Conley and Decarolis, 2016): 'Italiandata' - Robustness analysis (see also Wallimann et al., 2020): (1) Swiss cartels with additional predictors: 'Swissdata_addpred' (2) MISSING YET: Swiss cartels with coalitions of two firms Before using the data, read the 'ReadMe' file. If you have any comments or questions, don't hesitate to contact Hannes Wallimann (hannes.wallimann@hslu.ch) or David Imhof (david.imhof5@gmail.com).