A lot of people are mentioning how hard collusion is to prove.
Perhaps the government should offer a $500,000 incentive to anyone offering information which demonstrates collusion of a sufficient size.
If consumers are getting systematically ripped off at a scale of many billions of dollars, it seems like we should try to just buy that information rather than pay a few dozen Ph.D’s to build models which demonstrate collusion.
Knowing that employees are one email away from the biggest payday of their lives would have a deterrent effect on executive behavior, too.
Perhaps the government should offer a $500,000 incentive to anyone offering information which demonstrates collusion of a sufficient size.
If consumers are getting systematically ripped off at a scale of many billions of dollars, it seems like we should try to just buy that information rather than pay a few dozen Ph.D’s to build models which demonstrate collusion.
Knowing that employees are one email away from the biggest payday of their lives would have a deterrent effect on executive behavior, too.