Report NEP-COM-2026-02-09

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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• Sander Onderstal & Ruben van Oosten, 2025, "Vertical Integration in Auction Markets," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute, number 25-046/VII, Aug.
• Masaki Miyashita, 2026, "Characteristics Design: A Hedonic Approach to Optimal Product Differentiation," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2601.21573, Jan, revised Feb 2026.
• Brian C. Albrecht & Mark Whitmeyer, 2026, "Pass-through with Price Dispersion," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2601.17964, Jan.
• Mark Whitmeyer, 2026, "Distributional Competition," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2601.22112, Jan, revised Feb 2026.
• Esmat Sangari & Rajni Kant Bansal, 2026, "Bundling and Price-Matching in Competitive Complementary Goods Markets," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2601.15350, Jan.
• Joseph Goodman & Lancelot Henry de Frahan & Justin E. Holz & John A. List & Niall MacMenamin & Evan C. McKay & Magne Mogstad & Sally Sadoff & Hal Sider, 2026, "Consumer Demand and Market Competition with Time-Intensive Goods," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 34743, Jan.
• Viktor Mitevski, 2025, "Market Competition In Public Procurement Of North Macedonia (2021–2025): Economic Analysis Of Bidders Per Tender," Proceedings of the 5th International Conference "Economic and Business Trends Shaping the Future" 2024, Faculty of Economics-Skopje, Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, number 009, Dec.
• Vasilios Kanellopoulos, 2026, "The accumulation of knowledge with intra-industry knowledge spillovers: A competition game and the Nash equilibrium based on firm cost minimisation," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2601.13282, Jan.
• Yaonan Jin & Yingkai Li, 2026, "Anonymous Pricing in Large Markets," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2601.16488, Jan.
• Shipra Agrawal & Yiding Feng & Wei Tang, 2026, "Simple and Robust Quality Disclosure: The Power of Quantile Partition," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2602.01066, Feb.
• Yueran Ma & Mengdi Zhang & Kaspar Zimmermann, 2026, "Business Concentration around the World: 1900-2020," Working Papers, Becker Friedman Institute for Research In Economics, number 2026-13.
• Ahmed Chafai & Rym Oueslati & Hatem Salah, 2025, "Innovation Activities and Sustainable Firm Growth in Arab Countries: The Role of Bank Funding, Institutional Quality and Bank Competition," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1819, Dec, revised 20 Dec 2025.
• YoungGak KIM & Hyeog Ug KWON, 2026, "Markups and Business Dynamism: Firm-level evidence from Japan (Japanese)," Discussion Papers (Japanese), Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI), number 26002, Jan.
• Victor Aguirregabiria & Hui Liu & Yao Luo, 2026, "Nested Pseudo-GMM Estimation of Demand for Differentiated Products," Working Papers, University of Toronto, Department of Economics, number tecipa-819, Feb.
• Douglas Cumming & Hisham Farag & Santosh Koirala & Danny McGowan, 2026, "How Disruptive is Financial Technology?," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2601.14071, Jan, revised Jan 2026.
• Zongxia Liang & Jiayu Zhang & Zhou Zhou & Bin Zou, 2026, "Optimal Underreporting and Competitive Equilibrium," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2601.12655, Jan.
• Yuichiro KUBO & Tomohito HONDA & Hirofumi UCHIDA, 2026, "Do Family Firm Sellers Consider Stewardship in M&A Decisions?," Discussion papers, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI), number 26006, Jan.
• Alex Haag, 2025, "The State of AI Competition in Advanced Economies," FEDS Notes, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.), number 2025-10-06, Oct, DOI: 10.17016/2380-7172.3930.
• Joshua McNamara, 2026, "Slippery Up and Sticky Down? An Analysis of the Auckland Regional Fuel Tax," Working Papers in Economics, University of Waikato, number 26/01, Feb.