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Jorge Alé-Chilet

Jorge Alé-Chilet is an Assistant Professor at the School of Business and Economics at Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile, and an Affiliate Fellow of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2017. His research examines how regulatory design shapes competition and welfare distribution, studying in recent work collusion, healthcare and retail markets. His work has been published in the Review of Economic Studies, RAND Journal of Economics, and Marketing Science.
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Can Regulation Prevent Collusion Against Environmental Standards?

Jorge Alé-Chilet
In recent research, Jorge Alé-Chilet, Cuicui Chen, Jing Li, and Mathias Reynaert find that when faced with environmental regulations, collusion among German car manufacturers reduced their expected non-compliance fines and significantly increased consumer and producer surplus. At the same time, social welfare decreased by billions of euros because of increased pollution.

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