Report NEP-COM-2026-07-27

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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• O'Connell, Martin & Smith, Howard & Thomassen, Oyvind, 2025, "The Rise of Discounters and its Impact on Concentration, Market Power and Welfare," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20568, Aug.
• Carnehl, Christoph & Sobolev, Anton & Stahl, Konrad & Stenzel, André, 2025, "Designing Vertical Differentiation with Information," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20537, Aug.
• Reisinger, Markus & Zenger, Hans, 2025, "The Competitive Effects of Mergers with Cournot Competition," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20649, Sep.
• Jolian McHardy, 2026, "Strategic Discount Adoption in Network Oligopolies," Working Papers, The University of Sheffield, Department of Economics, number 2026006, Jul.
• Janssen, Maarten & Mauring, Eeva, 2025, "Dual Learning: How and How Much Can Platforms Learn from Searching Consumers?," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20381, Jun.
• Schutz, Nicolas & Sobolev, Anton, 2025, "Dual Pricing in a Model of Sales," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20367, Jun.
• Xiaoming Cai & Pieter Gautier & Ronald Wolthoff & Pieter A. Gautier, 2026, "Platform-Controlled Search and Distortions in Attention Allocation," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12760.
• Domenico DeGiovanni & Richard R. Ruble & Dimitrios Zormpas, 2026, "Non-monotonic entry dynamics in oligopoly with common ownership," Discussion Paper Series, Department of Economics, University of Macedonia, number 2026_11, Nov, revised Nov 2026.
• Weiming Li & Jing Sun & Xinxi Song & Bin Wu, 2026, "From Centrality Discounts to Centrality Premia: Interoperability and Platform Competition in Social Networks," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2607.09269, Jul.
• Nocke, Volker & Rhodes, Andrew, 2025, "Optimal Merger Remedies," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20573, Aug.
• Anderson, Simon & Bedre Defolie, Ozlem, 2025, "Two-Sided Market Pricing with Heterogeneous Users: Theory and App-lication," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20700, Oct.
• Duso, Tomaso & Harrington, Jr, Joseph E. & Kreuzberg, Carl & Sapi, Geza, 2025, "Public Communication and Collusion: New Screening Tools for Competition Authorities," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20490, Jul.
• Aguirre, Iñaki, 2026, "Endogenous location and pricing policy: mixed strategies make uniform pricing commitment successful," MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany, number 129636, Jun.
• Choné, Philippe & Linnemer, Laurent, 2025, "Flexclusivity: Exclusive Agreements with Competitive Flexibility," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20620, Sep.
• Akhil Rao, 2026, "Prices and Competition in Vertically Integrated Launch Markets," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2607.10385, Jul.
• Item repec:bge:wpaper:1585 is not listed on IDEAS anymore

• Sadun, Raffaella & Schuh, Rachel & Hartley, Jonathan & Van Reenen, John & Bloom, Nicholas, 2025, "Management and Firm Dynamism," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20602, Aug.
• Decarolis, Francesco & Li, Muxin, 2025, "Gatekeepers and Self-Preferencing: Incentives and Welfare Trade-offs in Two-sided Markets," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20668, Sep.
• Legros, Patrick & Newman, Andrew, 2025, "The “Value Principle†in Management Practices, Organizational Design and Industrial Organization," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20627, Sep.
• Bar-Isaac, Heski & Deb, Rahul & Mitchell, Matthew, 2025, "Selling Certification, Content Moderation, and Attention," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20348, Jun.
• Giovannetti, Emanuele, 2026, "Energy data spaces and market power: a new challenge for data sovereignty and its governance," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library, number 138550, Jan.
• Oecd, 2026, "Competition in the age of AI: Initial evidence from microdata," OECD Artificial Intelligence Papers, OECD Publishing, number 64, Jul, DOI: 10.1787/6f88a1ea-en.
• Peitz, Martin & Sobolev, Anton, 2025, "Biased Recommendations and Differentially Informed Consumers," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20368, Jun.
• Domenico DeGiovanni & Richard R. Ruble & Dimitrios Zormpas, 2026, "Overlapping Ownership, Sequential Moves and Welfare," Discussion Paper Series, Department of Economics, University of Macedonia, number 2026_10, Oct, revised Oct 2026.
• Pallavi Pal, 2026, "To Combine or Not? Consolidating Horizontal Acquisitions in Multi-sided Market," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12754.
• Koessler, Frédéric & Renault, Régis, 2025, "Sources of Consumer Information," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20694, Oct.
• Malek, Jan & Seldeslachts, Jo & Veugelers, Reinhilde, 2025, "Are M&As Spurring or Stifling Innovation? Evidence from Antidiabetic Drug Development," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20468, Jul.
• Fernald, John & Gandhi, Amit & Ruzic, Dimitrije & Traina, James, 2025, "Micro and Macro Perspectives on Production-Based Markups," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20628, Sep.
• Van Biesebroeck, Johannes & Verboven, Frank, 2025, "Demand, Competition and Public Policy in the Automobile Industry," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20397, Jul.
• Marko Družić, 2026, "Measuring Fine-Based Competition Authority Activity Efficiency in CEE Countries," EFZG Working Papers Series, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, number 2603, Jul.
• Beuschlein, Jakob Elias & Sigurdsson, Jósef & Wong, Horng Chern, 2025, "The Labor Market Consequences of Acquisitions," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20685, Sep.
• Casas-Arce, Pablo & Martinez-Jerez, Asis & Perrone, Helena, 2025, "Demand Steering through the Smokescreen of Stockouts: Evidence from Cigarette Vending Machines," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20708, Oct.
• Kretschmer, Tobias & Rasch, Alexander & Shekar, Shiva & Wenzel, Tobias, 2025, "Mandating Privacy Spillovers: Interoperability in Data Markets," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20383, Jun.
• Nocke, Volker & Schutz, Nicolas, 2025, "Oligopoly, Complementarities, and Transformed Potentials," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20527, Aug.
• Aryal, Gaurab & Chattopadhyaya, Anirban & Ciliberto, Federico, 2025, "Bridging Quasi-Experimental and Structural Approaches for Robust Evaluation of US Airline Mergers," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20683, Sep.
• Borsenberger, Claire & Cremer, Helmuth & Joram, Denis & Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie & Malavoltl, Estelle, 2025, "Strategic vs. Altruistic Corporate Social Responsibility," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20380, Jun.
• Yu-Ting Ho, 2026, "Screening Under Competition," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2606.22720, Jun.
• Cho, Thummim & Grotteria, Marco & Kremens, Lukas & Kung, Howard, 2025, "The Present Value of Future Market Power," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20540, Aug.
• Daniele Natalizi & Vatsala Shreeti, 2026, "Competition in retail digital payments," BIS Bulletins, Bank for International Settlements, number 127, Jul.
• David Huffman & Lamar Pierce & Germ'an Reyes & Alex Rees-Jones, 2026, "Competition and Anomalies Redux: Evidence from U.S. Auto Dealers," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2606.32011, Jun.
• DADAKPETE, David & DOSSA, Moïse, 2025, "Innovation and Survival of Young French Firms," MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany, number 127936.
• Enache, Andreea & Rhodes, Andrew, 2025, "Price Parity Clauses and Platform Data Acquisition," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20535, Aug.