Report NEP-COM-2025-09-01

This is the archive for NEP-COM, a report on new working papers in the area of Industrial Competition. Russell Pittman issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

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The following items were announced in this report:

• Hangcheng Zhao & Ron Berman, 2025. "Algorithmic Collusion of Pricing and Advertising on E-commerce Platforms," Papers 2508.08325, arXiv.org.
• Luca Lorenzini & Antonio Martner, 2025. "The Aggregate Welfare Effects of Nonlinear Prices in Supply Chains," Working Papers Central Bank of Chile 1049, Central Bank of Chile.
• Christos Genakos & Mario Pagliero & Lorien Sabatino & Tommaso Valletti, 2025. "Cultural exception? The impact of price regulation on prices and variety in the market for books," Working Papers 202501, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
• Jeremy Proz & Martin Huber, 2025. "Machine Learning for Detecting Collusion and Capacity Withholding in Wholesale Electricity Markets," Papers 2508.09885, arXiv.org.
• Cesare Carissimo & Fryderyk Falniowski & Siavash Rahimi & Heinrich Nax, 2025. "Algorithmic Collusion is Algorithm Orchestration," Papers 2508.14766, arXiv.org.
• Förster, Manuel & Närmann, Fynn Louis, 2025. "Sequential Information Selling: Perfect Price Discrimination and the Role of Encryption," Center for Mathematical Economics Working Papers 749, Center for Mathematical Economics, Bielefeld University.
• Elías Albagli & Mr. Francesco Grigoli & Emiliano Luttini & Dagoberto Quevedo & Marco Rojas, 2025. "Beyond Costs: The Dominant Role of Strategic Complementarities in Pricing," IMF Working Papers 2025/164, International Monetary Fund.
• Foros, Øystein & Kind, Hans Jarle & Shaffer, Greg, 2025. "Nash-in-Nash Bargaining with Price-Setting Firms: Contracts, Profits, and the Role of Slotting Fees," Discussion Paper Series in Economics 17/2025, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Economics.
• Wallenburg, Iris & Friebel, Rocco, 2025. "The mixed legacy of managed competition: between policy and practice," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 129134, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
• Soheil Ghili & K. Sudhir & Nitish Jain & Ankur Garg, 2025. "Second-degree Price Discrimination: Theoretical Analysis, Experiment Design, and Empirical Estimation," Papers 2507.13426, arXiv.org.
• David Imhof & Emanuel W Viklund & Martin Huber, 2025. "Catching Bid-rigging Cartels with Graph Attention Neural Networks," Papers 2507.12369, arXiv.org, revised Jul 2025.
• Francesco Amodio & Emanuele Brancati & Nicolás de Roux & Michele Di Maio, 2025. "Labor Market Institutions and Wage-Setting Power: Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean," Documentos CEDE 2025-26, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE.
• Lindsey Raymond, 2025. "The Market Effects of Algorithms," Papers 2508.09513, arXiv.org.
• Hideo Konishi & Dimitar Simeonov, 2025. "Competing Teams in Large Markets: Free Entry Equilibrium with (Sub-)Optimal Contracts," Boston College Working Papers in Economics 1095, Boston College Department of Economics.
• Saeed Alaei & Shuchi Chawla & Zhiyi Huang & Ali Makhdoumi & Azarakhsh Malekian, 2025. "Deterministic Refund Mechanisms," Papers 2507.04148, arXiv.org.
• Voraprapa Nakavachara & Chanon Thongtai & Thanarat Chalidabhongse & Chanathip Pharino, 2025. "The Green Premium Puzzle: Empirical Evidence from Climate-Friendly Food Products," Papers 2507.10333, arXiv.org.
• Serguey Braguinsky & Joonkyu Choi & Yuheng Ding & Karam Jo & Seula Kim, 2025. "Mega Firms and New Technological Trajectories in the U.S," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2025-060, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).