Collusion Versus Collaboration: Getting It Right

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Neha Georgie, Nov 11, 2014

Collaboration between firms in an industry can be beneficial to both firms and consumers in a market, insofar as firms are indeed only co-operating rather than colluding on anticompetitive outcomes. There is a fine line between the two but firms in industries where there are real benefits to be reaped from co-operation stand to make significant gains from knowing where that line is drawn. They could lose