Report NEP-COM-2026-07-20

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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• Dubus, Antoine & Legros, Patrick, 2026, "Make or Buy Decisions and Data Sharing," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21125, Feb.
• Cai, Xiaoming & Gautier, Pieter & Wolthoff, Ronald, 2026, "Platform-Controlled Search and Distortions in Attention Allocation," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 18745, Jun.
• Armstrong, Mark & Vickers, John, 2025, "Multibrand Price Dispersion," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20973, Dec.
• Nu Nu Win & Jonathan Hambur & David Hansell & Neil Crighton, 2026, "Tracking Mergers and Acquisitions Using Australian Administrative Data," RBA Research Discussion Papers, Reserve Bank of Australia, number rdp2026-04, Jul, DOI: 10.47688/rdp2026-04.
• Achim, Peter & Strausz, Roland, 2025, "Oligopolistic Information Markets," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20867, Nov.
• Karle, Heiko & Preuss, Marcel & Reisinger, Markus, 2026, "Selling on Recommender Platforms: Demand Boost versus Customer Migration," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21117, Feb.
• Johnen, Johannes & Shekhar, Shiva, 2025, "Foreclosure Incentives with Network Effects: A Framework for Screening Digital Mergers," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20899, Dec.
• Foros, Oystein & Friberg, Richard & Kind, Hans Jarle & Shaffer, Greg & Steen, Frode, 2025, "Media Attention and Price Competition: Evidence from Norwegian Grocery Retailing," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20877, Dec.
• Xin Meng & Hikmet Günay & Mehdi Arzandeh, 2026, "Use It or Save It? Idle Spectrum and Entry Deterrence," ISER Discussion Paper, Institute of Social and Economic Research, The University of Osaka, number 1316, Jul.
• Duso, Tomaso & Peitz, Martin, 2025, "Aligning Competition Policy and Industrial Policy in the EU," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20807, Nov.
• Rhodes, Andrew & Zhou, Jidong & Zhou, Junjie, 2026, "Digital Ecosystems and Data Regulation," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21209, Feb.
• Grigolon, Laura & Sovinsky, Michelle, 2026, "Incapacitating the Competition: The Impact of Vertical Restraints on Technology Adoption," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21046, Jan.
• Allain, Marie-Laure & Bourreau, Marc & Moraga-González, José-Luis, 2026, "The Agency and Wholesale Models When a Platform Can Charge Entry Fees," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21154, Feb.
• Hassan Benchekroun & Simon Elgersma & Gerard van der Meijden & Cees Withagen, 2026, "When OPEC Leads and the Fringe Follows: A Climate Story," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute, number 26-030/VIII, Jun.
• Ershov, Daniel & Lyons, Elizabeth, 2025, "Managing Algorithm Development among Third Party Contractors," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20901, Dec.
• Elsas-Nicolle, Ambre & Genakos, Christos & Kretschmer, Tobias, 2025, "Strategic Confusopoly: Evidence from the UK mobile telecommunications market," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20911, Dec.
• Agostinelli, Francesco & Ferraro, Domenico & Sorrenti, Giuseppe & Treuren, Leonard, 2025, "Employment Relationships, Wage Setting, and Labor Market Power," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20889, Dec.
• José Luis Moraga-González & Evgenia Motchenkova & Long Hoàng, 2026, "Pricing and investment by a two-sided monopoly platform," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute, number 26-015/VII, Apr.
• Blanchard, Pablo & Fleitas, Sebastian & González Valdenegro, Rodrigo, 2026, "Regulation by Public Options: Evidence from Pension Funds," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21152, Feb.
• Ashfaq, Marium & Toxvaerd, Flavio & Wei, Yi, 2026, "Competition and Collusion with Strategic Inventories," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21232, Feb.
• Bergquist, Lauren Falcao & Lashkari, Danial & Verhoogen, Eric, 2026, "Wedges: A Microeconomic Perspective on Misallocation," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21034, Jan.
• Feyler, Emilie & Heim, Sven & Szücs, Florian & Spiegel, Yossi, 2025, "Horizontal Minority Stake Acquisitions and Patent Activity," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20917, Dec.
• Carrillo, Paul & Donaldson, Dave & Pomeranz, Dina & Singhal, Monica, 2026, "Misallocation in Firm Production: A Nonparametric Analysis Using Procurement Lotteries," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21106, Jan.
• Nano Barahona & Juan-Pablo Montero & Pedro Skorin, 2026, "Competition and Misconduct in Certification Markets with Externalities," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35422, Jul.
• Moraga-González, José-Luis & Motchenkova, Evgenia, 2026, "Mergers and R&D Investment: A Unified Approach," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20986, Jan.
• Faia, Ester & Lochner, Benjamin & Schoefer, Benjamin, 2026, "Monopsony, Markdowns, and Minimum Wages," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21058, Jan.
• Su, Ruibing & Yang, Chenyu & Sweeting, Andrew, 2026, "Competition, Procurement and Learning-By-Doing in the Space Launch Industry," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21140, Feb.
• De Jonghe, Olivier & Mulier, Klaas & Schepens, Glenn & Stimpfle, Leonard, 2026, "Climate regulation, firm emissions, and green takeovers," Working Paper Series, European Central Bank, number 3253, Jul.
• Genakos, Christos & Kampouris, Themistoklis, 2026, "What is the “Right†Geographic Market Definition?," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21091, Jan.
• Martin, Simon & Verboven, Frank, 2026, "Price Caps and Coordinated Effects: Evidence from Retail Gasoline," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21297, Mar.
• Janssen, Maarten & Williams, Cole & Jungbauer, Thomas & Preuss, Marcel, 2025, "Optimally Informative Rankings and Consumer Search," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20868, Nov.
• Borusyak, Kirill & Chen, Jiafeng & Hull, Peter & Lei, Lihua, 2026, "Nonparametric Identification of Demand without Exogenous Product Characteristics," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21202, Feb.
• Pallavi Pal, 2026, "To Combine or Not? Consolidating Horizontal Acquisitions in Multi-sided Market," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2606.14836, Jun.
• Rrukaj, Ritvana & Steen, Frode, 2025, "Asymmetric Cost Pass-Through in Gasoline Markets: Do Station Size, -Location and -Service Level Matter?," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20876, Dec.
• Alice Lixuan Xu & Clemens Stiewe, 2026, "Competitive effects of transmission constraints in the German electricity market," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2607.00977, Jul.
• Haese, Jérémie & Kretschmer, Tobias & Peukert, Christian, 2026, "(How) Can Advertising Solve the Chicken-and-Egg Problem? Early Stage Dynamics of Platform Markets," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21012, Jan.
• Gokan, Toshitaka & Thisse, Jacques-François & Zhu, Xiwei, 2025, "Shopping Versus Shipping: The Strategic Choice of Retail Format," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20913, Dec.
• Friberg, Richard & Halseth, Emil M. S. & Steen, Frode & Ulsaker, Simen, 2025, "Do Informed Consumers Pay Less? Evidence from a Survey with Linked Grocery Purchase Data," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20875, Dec.
• Gehrig, Thomas & Stenbacka, Rune, 2025, "Supply Chain Resilience, Interference and Competition with Geopolitical Tensions," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20819, Nov.
• Adam, Klaus & Renkin, Tobias & Züllig, Gabriel, 2025, "Markups and Marginal Cost over the Firm Life," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20805, Nov.