Report NEP-COM-2025-09-08

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:

• José Ignacio Cuesta & Pietro Tebaldi, 2025. "Public Procurement vs. Regulated Competition in Selection Markets," NBER Working Papers 34141, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Kawaguchi, Kohei & Qiu, Jeff & Yi, Zhang, 2025. "When is Minimum and Maximum RPM Competitive?: Demand Uncertainty and Retailer Competition," SocArXiv 7tcha_v1, Center for Open Science.
• Bontems, Philippe & Hamilton, Stephen F. & Lepore, Jason, 2025. "Sequential pricing on multisided platforms," TSE Working Papers 25-1658, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).
• Christoph Carnehl & Anton Sobolev & Konrad Stahl & André Stenzel, 2025. "Designing Vertical Differentiation with Information," CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series crctr224_2025_700, University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany.
• Bradley Setzler, 2025. "Labor and Product Market Power, Endogenous Quality, and the Consolidation of the US Hospital Industry," NBER Working Papers 34180, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Qing Hu & Ryo Masuyama & Tomomichi Mizuno, 2025. "Common Ownership with Downstream Firm's Voluntary Investment," Discussion Papers 2520, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University.
• Ginger Zhe Jin & Mario Leccese & Liad Wagman & Yunfei Wang, 2025. "Serial Acquisitions in Tech," NBER Working Papers 34178, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Volker Nocke & Nicolas Schutz, 2025. "Oligopoly, Complementarities, and Transformed Potentials," CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series crctr224_2025_644_v2, University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany, revised Jul 2025.
• Ashvin Gandhi & Brett Hollenbeck & Zhijian Li, 2025. "Misinformation and Mistrust: The Equilibrium Effects of Fake Reviews on Amazon.com," NBER Working Papers 34161, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Alviarez Vanessa & Fioretti Michele & Kikkawa Ken & Morlacco Monica, 2025. "Two-Sided Market Power in Firm-to-Firm Trade," Papers 2507.12848, arXiv.org.
• Lisa Bruttel & Holger A. Rau & Vasilisa Werner, 2025. "Partial Cartels and Ringleaders: An Experimental Study," CEPA Discussion Papers 92, Center for Economic Policy Analysis.
• Chiara Farronato & Andrey Fradkin & Alexander MacKay, 2025. "Vertical Integration and Consumer Choice: Evidence from a Field Experiment," NBER Working Papers 34135, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Daniel Rehsmann & B'eatrice Roussillon & Paul Schweinzer, 2025. "Contesting fake news," Papers 2508.19837, arXiv.org.
• Bruno Baránek & Leon Musolff & Vitezslav Titl, 2025. "Detection of Collusive Networks in Multistage Auctions," CESifo Working Paper Series 12073, CESifo.
• Jorge Arenas M., 2024. "Market Size in Pricing Problems on Multi-sided Matching Platforms," Working Papers Central Bank of Chile 1033, Central Bank of Chile.
• Zihao Li, 2025. "Digital Goods Bargaining: A Folk Theorem," Papers 2507.13137, arXiv.org, revised Oct 2025.
• Olivia Bordeu & Gustavo González & Marcos Sorá, 2025. "Bank Competition and Investment Costs across Space," Working Papers Central Bank of Chile 1042, Central Bank of Chile.
• Koushik Mondal & Balagopal G Menon & Sunil Sahadev, 2025. "A Model of Triple-Channel Interaction Dynamics in Pharmaceutical Retailing in Emerging Economies," Papers 2508.17992, arXiv.org.