Report NEP-COM-2026-11-02

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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• Emanuel Namaiwa Barke, 2026, "Mutual Outsourcing in Network Industries: Cournot versus Stackelberg Competition," Working Papers, CRESE, number 2026-10, Sep.
• Patrick Arnold & Marc Moller & Makoto Watanabe, 2026, "Common Ownership and Intertemporal Price Discrimination," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 13095.
• Nicholas Li & Raymond Morgan, 2026, "Vertical Integration in Uncompetitive Markets: Evidence from the Acquisition of North Star Air by the North West Company," Working Papers, Toronto Metropolitan University, Department of Economics, number 102, Oct.
• Marie-Laure Cabon-Dhersin & Joanna Poyago-Theotoky & Natacha Raffin, 2026, "Competition Policy meets Environmental Regulation: A case for ‘green’ antitrust," Working Papers, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, number 2026.22, Aug.
• Roger D. Blair & Javier D. Donna, 2026, "Vertical Mergers, Foreclosure, and Rivals’ Exit: The Role of Fringe Firms," Working Papers, Red Nacional de Investigadores en Economía (RedNIE), number 410, Oct.
• Yue Li, 2026, "Equilibrium Existence in Oligopoly Pricing and Consumer Search," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2610.34578, Oct.
• Jens-Uwe Franck & Martin Peitz, 2026, "Foreclosure and Exploitation through Recommendation Power," CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series, University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany, number crctr224_2025_786, Oct.
• Andrew Sweeting & Xuezhen Tao & Qian Wang, 2026, "Producing to Signal: Private Information in Dynamic Quantity Competition," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35883, Oct.
• Martin Peitz, 2026, "Market Inquiries for Digital Markets: Lessons from South Africa," CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series, University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany, number crctr224_2025_787, Oct.
• 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 130317, May, revised 02 Aug 2026.
• Ertian Chen & Lichao Chen & Lars Nesheim, 2026, "Carbon regulation and competition in the European airline industry," CeMMAP working papers, Institute for Fiscal Studies, number 20/26, Oct, DOI: 10.47004/wp.cem.2026.2026.
• Ohnishi, Kazuhiro, 2026, "Price competition and managerial delegation under partial cooperation," MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany, number 129402, Jun.
• Mark L. Egan & Dominic Russel & Claire Shi & Vincent Yao, 2026, "Competition in Generative AI: Evidence from Consumer Demand," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35953, Oct.
• Lopes, Marcel Felipe Machado & Lopes, Paula Roméro Cajaty, 2026, "Buying Books, Buying Diversity? Public Procurement Theory and the Brazilian State as Book Buyer," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number eky7w_v1, Oct, DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/eky7w_v1.
• Katsuhiro Komatsu, 2026, "Competition for Workers and the Labor Share," KIER Working Papers, Kyoto University, Institute of Economic Research, number 1132, Oct.
• Lukyanov, Georgy & Pototskiy, Ilya, 2026, "The Price of a Familiar Perspective," TSE Working Papers, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), number 26-1795, Oct.
• Russell Pittman, 2024, "Should Conditions Regarding Non-Discrimination Be Imposed in Vertical Mergers? The Surface Transportation Board on the Acquisition of the Kansas City Southern Railway by the Canadian Pacific," EAG Discussions Papers, Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, number 202403, Dec.
• Alessandro Fedele, 2026, "The Taste Trap: How Consumer Reviews Distort Quality Investment," BEMPS - Bozen Economics & Management Paper Series, Faculty of Economics and Management at the Free University of Bozen, number BEMPS120, Oct.
• Marcelo Resende & Vicente Cardoso, 2026, "Firm Size Distribution and Power Laws in Brazil: Empirical Evidence," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 13085.
• Dai, Li & Martins, Pedro & Duan, Wenjing, 2026, "Employer Concentration and Minimum-Wage Employment Effects: Evidence from China's Transition," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 18994, Oct.
• Philip Bodenschatz & Peter H. Egger & Arne Nagengast, 2026, "The China Shock in World Markets: Chinese Competition and German Exporters," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 13079.
• Hyun Moh Shin, 2026, "he Innovation Effects of Vertical Spinoffs: Reconciling Minority Shareholder Protection and Innovation Policy under Korea’s Revised Commercial Act," Industrial Economic Review, Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade, number 023844, Aug.
• Emanuel Namaiwa Barke & Khaireddine Jebsi, 2026, "Cost asymmetry and the R&D investment-decision game," Working Papers, CRESE, number 2026-14, Oct.
• Jean-Marc Zogheib, 2026, "Privacy, competition, and multi-homing," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-05834698, Dec, DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2026.101182.
• Adrien Deschamps & François Maréchal & Pierre-Henri Morand, 2026, "Environmental Criteria and Clauses in Public Procurement: Theory and Evidence on Their Effects on Bidder Participation," Working Papers, CRESE, number 2026-12, Oct.
• Yuhang Ji & Fasheng Xu & Tianjun Feng, 2026, "Monetizing Intelligence: Advertising and Subscription Design on LLM Platforms," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2610.32945, Oct.
• Zhiguo He & Yiming Qian & Xi Sun & Wang Renxuan, 2026, "Industrial Policy via the IPO Market," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35889, Oct.
• M. Del Gatto & M. Piccari, 2026, "Technology adoption, emission intensity and (increasing/decreasing) competitive pressure," Working Paper CRENoS, Centre for North South Economic Research, University of Cagliari and Sassari, Sardinia, number 202616.
• Xun Chen, 2026, "Optimally Selling Heterogeneous Objects by Quantity," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2610.36244, Oct.
• Nima Haghpanah & Xiao Lin & Ron Siegel, 2026, "Selling Evidence Bit by Bit," PIER Working Paper Archive, Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, number 26-019, 10.