Why do you suppose that assigning market shares, regions, or customers and exchanging sales information are the most common means of coordinating collusion?

When an individual or organization decides to satisfy a need or urge by exchanging money, goods, or services, an exchange process occurs. It's as simple as that, and you engage in exchange relationships all the time.

Complicity is a non-competitive, secretive, and sometimes illegal agreement between competitors to disrupt market equilibrium.

Collusion occurs when people or businesses that would normally compete with one another conspire to work together just to gain unfair market advantage.

Collusion allows firms to increase profits at the expense of consumers while decreasing market competitiveness.

This could include:

• Agreeing to raise prices for consumers.
• Suppliers and retailers make deals.
• Monopoly pricing occurs when retailers band together to reduce the amount paid to suppliers.