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Quality Disclosure and Product Selection

Tianle Song
If entry requires accommodation by retailers, an incumbent manufacturer may transfer profits to retailers to maintain his dominant position. We show that such an incentive to transfer will induce a...

When do co-located firms selling identical products thrive?

Dan Bernhardt, Evangelos Constantinou, Mehdi Shadmehr
When consumers only see  prices once they visit stores, and some consumers have time to comparison shop, co-location commits stores to compete and lower prices, which draws consumers away from...

Organizational structure and technological investment

NORIAKI MATSUSHIMA, Ryusuke Shinohara
We analyze firms' decisions on their vertical organization, taking into account the characteristics of both the final good competition and the R&D process. We consider two vertical chains, where...

Should We Expect Merger Synergies to be Passed Through to Consumers?

Mario Leccese, Andrew Sweeting, Xuezhen Tao
When reviewing horizontal mergers, antitrust agencies balance anticompetitive incentives, resulting from market power, with procompetitive incentives, created by efficiencies, assuming complete...

Innovating Yourself Out of a Job

Michael T. Rauh
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Does Increasing Concentration Hit Poorer Areas More? A Study of Retail Petroleum Markets

Peter L. Ormosi, Farasat A. S. Bokhari, Sean Ennis, Franco Mariuzzo
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Platform design and rent extraction

Amedeo Piolatto, Florian Schuett
We study the design of online platforms that aggregate information and facilitate transactions. Leading players in the industry (e.g., the Booking Group) hold two types of platforms in their...

Welfare‐Increasing Monopolization

Simon Cowan
The conditions for monopolization to be good for social welfare are examined. Social welfare can be higher when a monopoly sells to a monopoly, with double margins, than when a competitive industry...

Demand Estimation with Flexible Income Effect: An Application to Pass‐Through and Merger Analysis

Shuhei Kaneko, Yuta Toyama
This article proposes a semiparametric discrete choice model that incorporates a nonparametric specification for income effects. The model allows for the flexible estimation of demand curvature,...

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The Journal of Industrial Economics, Volume 73, Issue 1, March 2025.
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CEPR/JIE 2022 conference

09/08/2021
The CEPR/JIE 2022 conference will take place in Berlin on 13-15 June 2022. Details will be available on CEPR's website.

Change of editor

04/30/2021
One of our editors, Ying Fan, is ending her mandate (thank you Ying for your service) and we are please to welcome Meghan Busse (Northwestern) to the editorial board;
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editor leaving and new editors

01/11/2021
James Roberts ended his mandate in December 2020 and we thank him for his great service. Two new editors joined the board in January 2021, Ryan McDewitt and Panle Jia Barwick, bringing the...

New members at the Advisory Council

09/04/2018
Ginger Zhe JIn (home page) and Julie Holland Mortimer (home page) will be joining the Advisory Council. The board thanks them for their willingness to help steer the journal in the coming years....

Kai-Uwe Kühn

09/04/2018
The board thanks Kai-Une Kühn fo rhaving served two mandates on the Advisory Council (after having served many eyeqrs as an editor of the journal).

CEPR-JIE Applied industrial organization conference

06/23/2018
The Journal of Industrial Economics is one of the sponsors of the CEPR-JIE Applied Industrial Organization conference, and this year the conference took place at KULeuven. More than 120 submissions...
Program of the CEPR-JIE conference KULeuven, June 120, 2018

New editor

06/23/2018
The members of the board are pleased to welcome professor Matthew Mitchell as a member of the board of editors. Matt will replace Heski as one of our "theory" editors. 
website of Matthew Mitchell

Change of editor

06/23/2018
Heski Bar Isaak who has been an editor since 2012 will be stepping down as editor at the end of June 2018. Heski has been instrumental in selecting high quality papers in theory. The members of the...

2018 board meeting

05/15/2018
The editorial board will have its annual board meeting on 18 June 2018 during hte CEPR/JIE Applied industrial organization conference which takes places this year at KULeuven (Belgium) on June...

Board meeting

05/19/2016
The 2016 meeting of the board (AGM) will take place in London during the CEPR/JIE Applied industrial organization conference (see http://www.cemmap.ac.uk/uploads/cemmap%202015_16/CEPR-JIE%...
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