Report NEP-COM-2026-01-26

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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• Mohapatra, Debashrita & Lopez, Rigoberto & Steinbach, Sandro, 2025, "Mergers, store revenue, and jobs: Evidence from the food retail industry," 2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2025, Denver, CO, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, number 360970, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.360970.
• Joshua S. Gans, 2026, "Price Discrimination with Costless Resale," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 34669, Jan.
• Bouvard, Matthieu & Jullien, Bruno & Martimort, David, 2025, "Buying Components," TSE Working Papers, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), number 26-1699, Nov.
• Philippe Légé, 2025, "The analogies between economic competition and natural selection in free-market thinking
  [Les analogies entre concurrence économique et sélection naturelle dans les pensées libérales]," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-05414504, DOI: 10.52983/CMJJ8712.
• Gierens, Jakob, 2026, "Weighted Pro-Rata: Exploration of a Promising New Music Streaming Remuneration System," MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany, number 127101, Jan.
• Shengyu Cao & Ming Hu, 2026, "LLM Collusion," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2601.01279, Jan.
• Moschini, GianCarlo & Smith, T. Jake, 2025, "Alternative Marketing Arrangements and Cattle Prices: Insights from Hotelling’s Model," 2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2025, Denver, CO, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, number 360825, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.360825.
• Srinivas Tunuguntla & Carl F. Mela & Jason Pratt, 2026, "Targeting Information in Ad Auction Mechanisms," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2601.09541, Jan.
• Seula Kim & Michael Navarrete, 2025, "Geospatial Heterogeneity in Inflation: A Market Concentration Story," FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, number 2025-15, Nov, DOI: 10.29338/wp2025-15.
• Haibo Wang & Takeshi Tsuyuguchi, 2025, "Market Reactions and Information Spillovers in Bank Mergers: A Multi-Method Analysis of the Japanese Banking Sector," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2512.06550, Dec.
• Kartiki Verma & Sunil Kanwar, 2026, "Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement and Industry Dynamics: Evidence from Indian Panel Data," Working papers, Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics, number 360, Jan.
• Chang, Hung-Hao & Meyerhoefer, Chad D., 2025, "Spillover Effects of Livestream Promotions on E-Commerce Platform Food Sales," 2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2025, Denver, CO, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, number 360841, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.360841.
• Phillips, Owen R. & Bastian, Christopher T. & Cook, Benjamin R. & Menkhaus, Dale J. & Gao, Shen, 2025, "Choice of Auction or Negotiation in Linked Laboratory Markets: Cattle Market Implications," 2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2025, Denver, CO, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, number 360827, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.360827.
• Timothy Christensen & Giovanni Compiani, 2026, "From Unstructured Data to Demand Counterfactuals: Theory and Practice," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2601.05374, Jan.
• McLaughlin, Patrick W. & Okrent, Abigail M., 2025, "Has consumer food demand become more price sensitive? A case study of beverages using retail- and household-based scanner data," 2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2025, Denver, CO, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, number 360837, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.360837.