Report NEP-COM-2026-05-25

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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• Cave, Martin, 2026, "Regulating increasingly digitalised networks and services," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library, number 138010, Jun.
• Jackie Baek & Vivek F. Farias & Farrell Wu, 2026, "Misspecified Explore-then-Exploit Leads to Supra-Competitive Prices," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2605.16064, May.
• Joshua S. Gans, 2026, "Competitive Exposure and Entrepreneurial Experimentation," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35172, May.
• Green, R. & Newbery, D. M., 2026, "Competition, Contracts and Auctions for Renewable Electricity Support: Competition for the Market but not yet in the Market," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, number 2636, Mar.
• Joachim Hubmer & Lukas Nord, 2026, "Investment in Demand and Dynamic Competition for Customers," PIER Working Paper Archive, Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, number 26-006, 04.
• Chengqing Li & Yves Zenou & Junjie Zhou, 2026, "When Do Markets Work? Multiplex Networks and Efficiency," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2605.21117, May.
• Akio Kawasaki & Noriaki Matsushima, 2026, "Competition between a public and a data-rich private firm: An application to digital health," OSIPP Discussion Paper, Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University, number 26E005, May.
• De Jonghe, Olivier & Huylebroek, Cédric, 2026, "The supply chain spillovers of private equity buyouts," Working Paper Series, European Central Bank, number 3234, May.
• Benjamin T. Leyden, 2026, "Airline Merger Effects Along the Exposure Distribution," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12669.
• Robert D. Metcalfe & Alexandre B. Sollaci & Chad Syverson, 2026, "Proposed Mergers Where Efficiencies Are Needed Most Might Be the Least Likely to Deliver Them," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35221, May.
• Zhang, Y., 2026, "Price Competition with Network Spillovers: Entry, Cohesiveness and Interoperability," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, number 2634, Apr.
• Pan, Xiaojun, 2026, "Strategic Delegation in Two-Sided Platforms: Tool or Trap, Conditional on Network-Effect Symmetry," EconStor Preprints, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, number 341118.
• Sirui Li & Jing Su, 2026, "Consumer Fairness Concerns and Price Discrimination of Two-Sided Platforms," Working Papers ECARES, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles, number 2026-14, May.
• Winston Wei Dou & Wei Wang & Wenyu Wang, 2026, "The Cost of Intermediary Market Power for Distressed Borrowers," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35206, May.
• Massey, Patrick, 2026, "A Veterinary Misdiagnosis: Analysing the Decision of Ireland’s CCPC in the IVC Evidensia/Old Church Vets Merger," MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany, number 129081, May.
• Pan, Xiaojun, 2026, "The Doubly-Nested Prisoner's Dilemma: Platform Enablement and Strategic Delegation on Industrial Internet Platforms," EconStor Preprints, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, number 341117.
• Veronica Leoni & David Boto-Garcia & Roberto Patuelli, 2026, "The Timing of Spatial Competition: Price Interdependence Across Booking Horizons," Working Papers, Dipartimento Scienze Economiche, Universita' di Bologna, number wp1225, May.
• Bartelsman, Eric J. & Dobbelaere, Sabien & Zona Mattioli, Alessandro, 2026, "Intangible assets and imperfections in product and labor markets," IWH Discussion Papers, Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), number 5/2026, DOI: 10.18717/dpmq58-mn93.
• Dongwoo Kim & Kyoo il Kim & Pallavi Pal, 2026, "Partial identification of the valuation distribution in sequential English auctions," CeMMAP working papers, Institute for Fiscal Studies, number 08/26, May, DOI: 10.47004/wp.cem.2026.0826.
• Jorge Florez-Acosta & Margarita María Gáfaro-González & Alejandra Ximena González-Ramírez & Juan Sebastián Vélez-Velásquez, 2026, "Materials prices, market power, and the rise in processed food inflation in emerging markets: Evidence from Colombia," Borradores de Economia, Banco de la Republica de Colombia, number 1353, May.
• Dongwoo Kim & Kyoo il Kim & Pallavi Pal, 2026, "Partial Identification of the Valuation Distribution in Sequential English Auctions," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2605.14400, May.
• Ikonnikova, Svetlana & Steinbuks, Jevgenijs, 2026, "Willingness-to-Pay for Emerging Technologies : A Study of Hydrogen Demand in the Ammonia Industry," Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank, number 11338, Mar.
• Aroon Narayanan & Tavneet Suri & Prashant Bharadwaj, 2026, "Interest Rate Caps, Competition, and Strategic Borrowing: Evidence from Kenya," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35166, May.
• Fabian Herweg & Botond Köszegi & Klaus M. Schmidt, 2026, "Some Simple Economics of Green Markets," Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition, number 572, May.
• Vaibhav Rangan, 2026, "Coordination Failures and Stackelberg Leadership in Housing Development with Network Effects," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2605.12559, May.
• Carrillo, Paul & Donaldson, Dave & Pomeranz, Dina & Singhal, Monica, 2026, "Misallocation in Firm Production: A Nonparametric Analysis Using Procurement Lotteries," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 18612, Apr.
• Oecd, 2026, "Subsidies and market share in the global steel industry," OECD Science, Technology and Industry Policy Papers, OECD Publishing, number 191, May, DOI: 10.1787/a5cfb5dd-en.
• Madjid Eshaghi Gordji & Esmaiel Abounoori & Mohamadali Berahman, 2026, "Meta-Bayesian Nash Equilibrium: Existence via Kakutani's Fixed Point Theorem," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2605.16926, May.
• Koichiro Ito & James M. Sallee & Jonathan (Andrew) Smith, 2026, "Global Policy Spillovers: How Environmental Policies Propagate through Product Attributes," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35197, May.