The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices | Quanta Magazine
Recent findings reveal that even simple pricing algorithms can make things more expensive.
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How to spot a monopoly - Works in Progress Magazine
Competition makes capitalism work. A new method for measuring it may be the holy grail of economic regulation.
For one thing, looking at concentration at a national level can obscure what’s going on at the local level.
Even when concentration does rise, it’s not always bad for competition.
The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices | Quanta Magazine
Recent findings reveal that even simple pricing algorithms can make things more expensive.
AI-Driven Antitrust and Competition Law: Algorithmic Collusion, Self-Learning Pricing Tools, and Legal Challenges in the US and EU
AI algorithmic collusion challenges traditional antitrust law. Legal AI frameworks adapt to prosecute self-learning pricing tools
reinforcement learning (RL), can lead to outcomes resembling traditional collusion
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Emergent Price-Fixing by LLM Auction Agents
An inquiry into emergent collusion in Large Language Models. Agent S2 to Agent S3: “Let's set all asks at 63 next cycle… No undercutting ensur…
Beyond Human Intervention: Algorithmic Collusion through Multi-Agent Learning Strategies
Our paper, Beyond Human Intervention: Algorithmic Collusion through Multi-Agent Learning Strategies, with Suzie Grondin and Philipp Ratz is now available online Collusion in market pricing is a concept associated with human actions to raise market prices through artificially…