Report NEP-COM-2026-08-17

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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• Mei Dong & Janet Hua Jiang & Ling Sun, 2026, "Information, Prices and Buyer Entry," Staff Working Papers, Bank of Canada, number 26-4, Mar, DOI: 10.34989/swp-2026-4.
• Zhang, Rong & Li, Mengjie & Zhang, Yvette, 2026, "Economies of Scale, Product Composition, and Vertical Pricing in Food Retail," 2026 Annual Meeting, July 26 - 28, 2026, Kansas City, Missouri, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, number 404622, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.404622.
• Chiara Fumagalli & Bruno Jullien & Yassine Lefouili & Michele Polo, 2026, "Digital mergers: recent insights and policy implications," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-05686566, Dec, DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2026.101174.
• Haucap, Justus & Delfs, Tobias & Fritz, Daniel & Thorwarth, Susanne, 2026, "Ex-post evaluation of Edeka's acquisition of Kaiser's Tengelmann," DICE Discussion Papers, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), number 438.
• Sweeting, Andrew & Tao, Xuezhen & Wang, Qian, 2024, "Output Signaling in Oligopoly," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19757, Dec.
• Peitz, Martin & Sato, Susumu, 2024, "Asymmetric Platform Oligopoly," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19584, Oct.
• Domenico Delli Gatti & Andrea Coletta & Aldo Glielmo & Filippo Gusella & Enrico Maria Turco & Alessia Lo Turco, 2026, "Emergent Strategic Behaviour in a Macroeconomic Agent-Based Model with Reinforcement Learning," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12862.
• Pandey, Aarni & Ganjoo, Ananta, 2026, "Antitrust reforms in the Digital Economy: A Balancing Act Between Regulations and Innovation," LawArchive, Center for Open Science, number dk8sp_v1, Jul, DOI: 10.31228/osf.io/dk8sp_v1.
• Rusakov, Alexey & Kretschmer, Tobias, 2024, "First-Party Complements in Platform Markets: The Role of Competition," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19687, Nov.
• Anna D’annunzio & Yassine Lefouili & Bruno Jullien & Leonardo Madio, 2026, "Mergers and Investments in New Products," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-05680914, Jun, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2026.103291.
• Parakhonyak, Alexei & Rhodes, Andrew, 2025, "Dynamic Consumer Search," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19853, Jan.
• Hongyu Xiao & Robert Petrunia & Sarah Lucky, 2026, "Banking Competition and Access to Cash and Retail Banking Services in Rural Canada," Staff Working Papers, Bank of Canada, number 26-19, Jun, DOI: 10.34989/swp-2026-19.
• Heidhues, Paul & Johnen, Johannes & Köszegi, Botond, 2024, "Consumer Protection in Economies with Limited Attention," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19560, Oct.
• Youming Liu & Francisco Rivadeneyra & Edona Reshidi, 2026, "Public vs. Private Payment Platforms: Market Impacts and Optimal Policy," Staff Working Papers, Bank of Canada, number 26-10, Mar, DOI: 10.34989/swp-2026-10.
• Peitz, Martin & Sobolev, Anton, 2024, "Product Recommendations and Price Parity Clauses," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19659, Nov.
• Bornstein, Gideon & Peter, Alessandra, 2024, "Nonlinear Pricing and Misallocation," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19672, Nov.
• Nicolas Eschenbaum & Janusz M. Meylahn, 2026, "Auditing Algorithmic Collusion from Strategy Graphs," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2608.07098, Aug.
• Jaumandreu, Jordi, 2024, "Robust Production Function Estimation when there is Market Power," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19677, Nov.
• De Loecker, Jan & Fuss, Catherine & Quiller-Doust, Nathan & Treuren, Leonard, 2024, "The Anatomy of Costs and Firm Performance Evidence from Belgium," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19641, Nov.
• Wang, Yi & Sesmero, Juan & Ma, Meilin, 2026, "Testing Vertical Relationships in the US Infant Formula Market: Implications for Government Costs and Welfare," 2026 Annual Meeting, July 26 - 28, 2026, Kansas City, Missouri, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, number 404621, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.404621.
• Mertens, Matthias & Schoefer, Benjamin, 2024, "From Labor to Intermediates: Firm Growth, Input Substitution, and Monopsony," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19719, Nov.
• Ferrari, Alessandro & Queiros, Francisco, 2024, "Firm Heterogeneity, Market Power and Macroeconomic Fragility," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19692, Nov.
• Emmanuel Dhyne & Amil Petrin & Frederic Warzynski, 2026, "Deregulation and Investment Spillovers in Multi-Product Production Settings," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12900.
• Galeotti, Andrea & Golub, Benjamin & Goyal, Sanjeev & Talamas, Eduard & Tamuz, Omer, 2024, "Robust Market Interventions," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19574, Oct.
• Friberg, Richard, 2025, "Pricing Algorithms -- A Survey of the Literature and an Examination of their Use on the Swedish Gasoline Market," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19830, Jan.
• Doyle, Christopher, 2026, "Strategic withholding in descending clock capacity auctions: a stage-by-stage analysis of the British electricity capacity market," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library, number 139055, Oct.
• Ichihashi, Shota & Jeon, Doh-Shin & Kim, Byung-Cheol, 2024, "Mechanism Design and Innovation Incentive for an Ad-Funded Platform," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19675, Nov.
• Atella, Vincenzo & Ceschin, Nicola & Decarolis, Francesco, 2024, "Procuring Medical Devices: The Price Effect of Mergers Among Orthopedic Prostheses Producers," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19737, Dec.
• Heiland, Inga, 2024, "Common Ownership and Competition: Evidence from Ultimate Owners of Private and Public Firms," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19662, Nov.
• Ackerberg, Daniel & De Loecker, Jan, 2024, "Production Function Identification Under Imperfect Competition," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19640, Nov.
• Miravete, Eugenio, 2024, "On Anticompetitive Third-Degree Price Discrimination," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19742, Dec.
• Boeri, Tito & Crescioli, Tommaso & Garnero, Andrea & Luisetto, Lorenzo G., 2026, "Collective bargaining and monopsony: the regulation of noncompete agreements in France," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library, number 140384, Jul.
• Gorkem Celik & Roland Strausz, 2026, "Informative Certification: Screening vs. Acquisition," Berlin School of Economics Discussion Papers, Berlin School of Economics, number 0104, Jul, DOI: 10.48462/opus4-6298.
• Motta, Massimo & Polo, Michele, 2024, "Supply Chain Disruption and Precautionary Industrial Policy," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19699, Nov.
• Harhoff, Dietmar & Heller, David & Momtaz, Paul, 2024, "Inventor Returns and Mobility," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19681, Nov.
• Doshi, Samir & Hoolohan, Vicky & Lewis, Tabitha & Schneebacher, Jakob, 2024, "Estimating geographical retail markets from card spending data," Discussion Papers, Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence, number escoe-dp-2024-16, Nov.
• Madarász, Kristóf & Pycia, Marek, 2025, "Cost over Content: Information Choice in Trade," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19902, Jan.
• Otsu, Taisuke & Pesendorfer, Martin, 2024, "Conduct in the Soft Drink Market: A Mechanism Design Approach," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19567, Oct.
• Hector Chade & Victoria Marone & Amanda Starc & Jeroen Swinkels, 2026, "Multidimensional Screening for Quality with an Application to Health Insurance," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, number 2541, Jun.
• Carol Propper, 2026, "Do Markets Deliver? Competition and Choice in European Healthcare Markets," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12852.
• Markovich, Sarit & Rayo, Luis, 2024, "What's on the Menu? Consumption Externalities & Product Quality," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19792, Dec.
• Dirk Bergemann & Yang Cai & Jinzhao Wu & Konstantin Zabarnyi, 2026, "The Near-Optimality of Two-Part Tariffs for Nonlinear Pricing," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, number 2534, Jul.
• Cowgill, Bo & Freiberg, Brandon & Starr, Evan, 2026, "Clause and Effect: Theory and Field Experimental Evidence on Noncompete Clauses," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 18820, Jul.
• Lafontaine, Francine & Saattvic, Saattvic & Slade, Margaret, 2024, "No–Poaching Clauses in Franchise Contracts: Anticompetitive or Efficiency Enhancing?," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19548, Oct.