What is considered collusion?

What is considered collusion?

Collusion is a non-competitive, secret, and sometimes illegal agreement between rivals which attempts to disrupt the market’s equilibrium. The act of collusion involves people or companies which would typically compete against one another, but who conspire to work together to gain an unfair market advantage.

How is collusion detected?

A time-honored method of detecting collusion is finking by a dissident cartel member or an ex- employee, or the complaints of customers. Such evidence has obvious attractions, but one should be suspicious of complaints by a rival firm not party to the conspiracy.

Is letting someone copy your homework cheating?

Submitting homework assignment which you didn’t do yourself is commonly called cheating. If you have copied it entirely from someone or downloaded elswhere, it’s plagiarism. Penalty for cheating is low grade, failed class or course, in the worst case you can even be expelled.