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Can Regulation Prevent Collusion Against Environmental Standards?

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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