Report NEP-COM-2026-02-02

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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• Stöhr, Annika & Budzinski, Oliver, 2025, "The dynamics of market boundaries and the role of systemic market power," Ilmenau Economics Discussion Papers, Ilmenau University of Technology, Institute of Economics, number 198.
• Bougette, Patrice & Budzinski, Oliver & Marty, Frédéric, 2025, "Revisiting behavioral merger remedies in turbulent markets: A framework for dynamic competition," Ilmenau Economics Discussion Papers, Ilmenau University of Technology, Institute of Economics, number 202.
• Stöhr, Annika & Budzinski, Oliver, 2025, "Addressing the impact of foreign state-owned companies: Implications for fair and effective merger control," Ilmenau Economics Discussion Papers, Ilmenau University of Technology, Institute of Economics, number 200.
• Wojciech Olszewski & Yutong Zhang, 2025, "Competition for being visited first and ordered search deterrence," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2512.08136, Dec.
• Aggey Simons (Semenov) & Jean Baptiste Tondji, 2026, "Authenticity-Driven Motivations in Oligopoly: Efforts, Pricing, and Welfare," Working Papers, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics, number 2601E.
• Liang Chen, 2026, "Ecosystem Competition and Cross-Market Subsidization: A Dynamic Theory of Platform Pricing," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2601.15303, Jan.
• Ma, Yao, 2025, "Time-Varying Oligopsonistic Competition, Storage Dynamics, and Welfare in Agricultural Markets," 2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2025, Denver, CO, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, number 360977, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.360977.
• Ali, Amjad & Afzal, Muhammad Bilal & Ahmad, Khalil, 2025, "Market Concentration and Innovation Horizon: Evidence from the US Firms," MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany, number 127526.
• Bohan Zhang, 2025, "Platform Competition with User-Generated Content," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2512.08876, Dec.
• Hey, Florian & Zombek, Max, 2025, "Digital control and market power in the automotive sector: OEMs, gatekeeping, and the future of aftermarket regulation," Ilmenau Economics Discussion Papers, Ilmenau University of Technology, Institute of Economics, number 201.
• Chevalier-Roignant, Benoît & Villeneuve, Stéphane, 2026, "How do upstream competition and supply shocks affect investment decisions?," TSE Working Papers, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), number 26-1702, Jan.
• Li, Mengjie & Lopez, Rigoberto, 2025, "Grocery Retail Formats: Evolution of Markups and Consumer Welfare," 2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2025, Denver, CO, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, number 360964, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.360964.
• Jan De Loecker & Catherine Fuss & Nathan Quiller-Doust & Leonard Treuren, 2024, "The anatomy of costs and firm performance Evidence from Belgium," Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven, number 779663, Oct.
• Iacopo Varotto, 2026, "Blocking the Blockers? Diversity Matters," Working Papers, Banco de España, number 2601, Jan, DOI: https://doi.org/10.53479/42285.
• Keita Kuwahara, 2026, "A Note on 'The Limits of Price Discrimination' by Bergemann, Brooks, and Morris," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2601.07452, Jan.
• Budzinski, Oliver & Stöhr, Annika, 2025, "Competitiveness, competition, and competition policy," Ilmenau Economics Discussion Papers, Ilmenau University of Technology, Institute of Economics, number 206.
• Ester Faia & Benjamin Lochner & Benjamin Schoefer, 2026, "Monopsony, Markdowns, and Minimum Wages," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 34699, Jan.
• Jiaming Wei & Dihan Zou, 2025, "Regulating a Monopolist without Subsidy," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2512.06525, Dec, revised Dec 2025.
• Budzinski, Oliver & Kunz-Kaltenhäuser, Philipp, 2025, "Decreasing financial imbalances or distorting competition? Examining the effects of the 50plus1-rule in German football," Ilmenau Economics Discussion Papers, Ilmenau University of Technology, Institute of Economics, number 197.
• Liran Einav & Mariana D. Guido & Peter J. Klenow, 2026, "Customer Overlap and Diversion Ratios," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 34693, Jan.
• Jaeyeon Kim & Frank Stahler & Halis Murat Yildiz, 2026, "Foreign market entry and merger policies with economies of scale," Working Papers, Toronto Metropolitan University, Department of Economics, number 099, Jan.
• Dipankar Das, 2026, "Pairwise Beats All-at-Once: Behavioral Gains from Sequential Choice Presentation," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2601.15332, Jan.
• Debasis Mishra & Sanket Patil & Alessandro Pavan, 2025, "Robust procurement design," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2512.08177, Dec.
• Yueran Ma & Mengdi Zhang & Kaspar Zimmermann, 2026, "Business Concentration around the World: 1900-2020," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 34711, Jan.
• Yukun Zhang & Tianyang Zhang, 2026, "The Economics of Digital Intelligence Capital: Endogenous Depreciation and the Structural Jevons Paradox," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2601.12339, Jan.
• Rui Xu, 2026, "Fintech Competition and Banks’ Shrinking Margins in Brazil," IMF Working Papers, International Monetary Fund, number 2026/007, Jan.
• Budzinski, Oliver & Stöhr, Annika, 2025, "Regulating recommender systems? Effects of data-based individualization (and its limits) on competition in the digital world," Ilmenau Economics Discussion Papers, Ilmenau University of Technology, Institute of Economics, number 204.
• Laurenz Marstaller, 2026, "Privacy in Search Markets," ECONtribute Discussion Papers Series, University of Bonn and University of Cologne, Germany, number 387, Jan.
• Budzinski, Oliver, 2025, "Sports governing bodies vs. antitrust 0 - 4? Sport and competition economics comments on the recent judgements of the European Court of Justice," Ilmenau Economics Discussion Papers, Ilmenau University of Technology, Institute of Economics, number 205.