IDENTIFICATION OF AN IMPLICIT PRICE AGREEMENT ON THE FOOD MARKET
The article analyzes current approaches to detecting an implicit price collusion in the market. A group of factors is singled out, a simultaneous combination of which may indicate a possible price collusion: firstly, a significant share of the market under investigation belongs to companies that have a high degree of correlative dependence of financial and economic indicators, and secondly, the high degree of affiliation of market participants. The results of checking these regularities are presented on the example of the wholesale market of sugar in Russia, where the FAS confirm the existence of a price collusion. The analysis of meat industry of Novosibirsk and Tomsk region is conducted, the results of which allow estimating the probability of existence of price collusion.