Report NEP-COM-2026-09-07

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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• Nandish Patel, 2026, "On insufficient entry in Bayes-Bertrand oligopoly," Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai Working Papers, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India, number 2026-011, May.
• Delina E. Agnosteva & Constantinos Syropoulos & Yoto V. Yotov, 2026, "Trade Fragmentation, International Cartels, and Welfare: How Does Domestic Market Structure Matter?," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12949.
• Harry Kleyer, 2026, "Schedule equilibria," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2608.12818, Aug, revised Aug 2026.
• Paolo Bertoletti & Federico Etro, 2026, "Insufficient Entry in Monopolistic Competition," Working Papers - Economics, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa, number wp2026_15.rdf.
• Sumana Kundu, 2026, "Transparency versus Opacity: Personalized pricing and firm competition under network effects," Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai Working Papers, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India, number 2026-013, Jul.
• Biswas, Suparna & Crespi, John & Harris-Lagoudakis, Katherine, 2026, "Collusive Efforts and Market Power: Analyzing the Canned Tuna Industry," 2026 Annual Meeting, July 26 - 28, 2026, Kansas City, Missouri, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, number 404623, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.404623.
• Cabon-Dhersin, Marie-Laure & Poyago-Theotoky, Joanna & Raffin, Natacha, 2026, "Competition Policy meets Environmental Regulation: A case for ‘green’ antitrust," FEEM Working Papers, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), number 410235, Aug, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.410235.
• Lapo FILISTRUCCHI, & Alessandro GUAZZINI & Samuele SCARPELLI, 2026, "Component vs. Product Competition and the Licensing Level of Standard Essential Patents," Working Papers - Economics, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa, number wp2026_13.rdf.
• Oecd, 2026, "Competition law enforcement in informal markets in Latin America and the Caribbean," OECD Roundtables on Competition Policy Papers, OECD Publishing, number 337, Sep, DOI: 10.1787/05e8b43c-en.
• Carlos L. Vega & Jestoni A. Olivo & Antonio Miguel S. Ventura & Eirene Gillian M. Reyes, 2025, "Competition Considerations in Change Ownership Reforms for Electric Cooperatives," UP School of Economics Discussion Papers, University of the Philippines School of Economics, number 202504, Aug.
• Commander, Simon & Estrin, Saul & Thomas, Naveen Joseph & Lingineni, Varun, 2026, "Business groups, concentration and market power in India," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library, number 138970, Aug.
• Ricardo Perez-Truglia & Jeffrey Yusof, 2026, "Who Wants to Break Up Big Firms? Harm, Fairness, and the Demand for Antitrust," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35503, Jul.
• Montag, Felix, 2026, "Mergers and the demand for protectionism," Working Papers, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, number 384.
• Federico Etro, 2026, "Moral Hazard and Competitive Paradoxes," Working Papers - Economics, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa, number wp2026_16.rdf.
• Oecd, 2026, "Early resolution of cartel cases in Latin America and the Caribbean," OECD Roundtables on Competition Policy Papers, OECD Publishing, number 338, Sep, DOI: 10.1787/62c9a81e-en.
• HOSONO, Kaoru & YAMAMOTO, Yohei, 2026, "Intangible Capital, Markups, and Markdowns: Evidence from Japanese Listed Firms," Discussion paper series, Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study, Hitotsubashi University, number HIAS-E-162, Aug.
• Dennis W. Carlton & John List & Allan Shampine & Hal Sider & Theresa Sullivan, 2026, "FTC v. Meta: The Importance of Quantitative Evidence in Antitrust," Framed Field Experiments, The Field Experiments Website, number 00839.
• Bustamante, Maria Cecilia & Pellegrino, Bruno, 2026, "Dynamic investment and product market rivalry: The network Q model," Working Papers, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, number 380.
• Denicolo, Vincenzo & Panunzi, Fausto, 2024, "Strategic Stake Acquisitions in Rival Firms: Common vs. Cross-Ownership," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19204, Jul.
• Carlos Fernando Avenancio-León & Adelina Barbalau & Cyndi Hou & Alessio Piccolo, 2026, "Firms as Electoral Monopsonies," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35676, Aug.
• Federico INNOCENTI & Nicola DONI & Domenico MENICUCCI, 2026, "Information Design and Entry in Auctions," Working Papers - Economics, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa, number wp2026_09.rdf.
• Negar Mohammadi Jazi & Felipe Netto, 2026, "Asymmetric information and capital regulation in SME lending: a structural model of bank and non-bank competition," Bank of England Staff Working Paper series, Bank of England, number 1191, Jun.
• Eeckhout, Jan, 2024, "The Value and Proï¬ ts of Firms," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19232, Jul.
• Pathak Chalise, Prayash & Cakir, Metin, 2026, "Do Firms Increase Markups During Inflationary Episodes? Evidence from the Food and Beverage Manufacturing Firms," 2026 Annual Meeting, July 26 - 28, 2026, Kansas City, Missouri, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, number 404630, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.404630.
• Mathilde Dufouleur, 2026, "Bitcoin Market Segmentation and Regulatory Effect," Working papers, Banque de France, number 1052.
• Mustapha Nyenye Issah & Paramahansa Pramanik, 2026, "Bayesian Signaling and Entry Decisions under Uncertain Market Conditions," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2608.17273, Aug.
• Daniel R. Arnold & Michael R. Richards & Yashaswini Singh & Christopher M. Whaley, 2026, "Stress Testing Cardiac Care Markets through Deregulation," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35645, Aug.