# kaal:claim:3995709-022

**Claim.** Because customers cannot afford to search for better priced code reviews and are forced into cartel pricing to obtain market acceptance of their products, cartelization undermines any form of downward price pressure.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- clients requiring market acceptance signals from audit firms

**Source quote.**

> Customers cannot afford to look for better priced code reviews and are forced into the cartel pricing to obtain market acceptance of their products. In turn, the cartelization of the market undermines any form of downward price pressure.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *How DAOs Optimize Open-Source Code Reviews and Create Open-Source Standards* (2021), No Controls, page 14

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, How DAOs Optimize Open-Source Code Reviews and Create Open-Source Standards (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3995709

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**Topics.** economics, compliance

**Keywords.** cartel, price-pressure, market-acceptance, code-audit

**Related claims.**

- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4734750-019
- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4755632-025

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