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20202026
most citedDetecting bid-rigging coalitions in different countries and auction formats

1 citations · 1 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

econ.GN2026

Swimming in Dark Water: When Cartels Mimic Competition

David Imhof, Thierry Madiès, Martin Huber

This paper analyzes the internal organization and economic effects of a bid-rigging cartel in the road construction sector of the Swiss canton of Ticino, active from 1999 to 2005.…

econ.EM2025

Catching Bid-rigging Cartels with Graph Attention Neural Networks

David Imhof, Emanuel W Viklund, Martin Huber

We propose a novel application of graph attention networks (GATs), a type of graph neural network enhanced with attention mechanisms, to develop a deep learning algorithm for detec…

econ.GN2021★ 1 cited

Detecting bid-rigging coalitions in different countries and auction formats

David Imhof, Hannes Wallimann

We propose an original application of screening methods using machine learning to detect collusive groups of firms in procurement auctions. As a methodical innovation, we calculate…

stat.ML2021

Deep learning for detecting bid rigging: Flagging cartel participants based on convolutional neural networks

Martin Huber, David Imhof

Adding to the literature on the data-driven detection of bid-rigging cartels, we propose a novel approach based on deep learning (a subfield of artificial intelligence) that flags…

econ.EM2020

A Machine Learning Approach for Flagging Incomplete Bid-rigging Cartels

Hannes Wallimann, David Imhof, Martin Huber

We propose a new method for flagging bid rigging, which is particularly useful for detecting incomplete bid-rigging cartels. Our approach combines screens, i.e. statistics derived…