Report NEP-REG-2026-08-10

This is the archive for NEP-REG, a report on new working papers in the area of Regulation. Christopher Decker issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

Subscribe to this report: email, RSS, or Mastodon, or Bluesky.

Other reports in NEP-REG

The following items were announced in this report:

• Inderst, Roman & Valletti, Tommaso M. & Wentzien, Christoph, 2026, "Europe's payments bottleneck: Merchant choice as a competition remedy," SAFE Policy Letters, Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE, number 117.
• Mountain, B., 2026, "Open configuration options Bargaining under Monopoly: Negotiated Settlement, Customer Bargaining and Australian Energy Networks," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, number 2661, Jul.
• Kuhn, Florian & Kehrig, Matthias & Ziebarth, Nicolas L., 2025, "Welfare Effects of Gas Price Fluctuations," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20008, Mar.
• Nicola Borri & Kirill Shakhnov, 2026, "Does Regulation Bite at Gateways? Evidence from MiCA and Stablecoins," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2607.09514, Jul.
• Alpino, Matteo & Ciapanna, Emanuela & Citino, Luca & Rovigatti, Gabriele, 2025, "Navigating the Electric Storm: Assessing Policy Responses to Europe’s Energy Shock," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19981, Feb.
• Bontemps, Christian & Gualdani, Cristina & Remmy, Kevin, 2025, "Price Competition and Endogenous Product Choice in Networks: Evidence from the US Airline Industry," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20144, Apr.
• Decarolis, Francesco & Pellegrinetti, Tommaso & Rovigatti, Gabriele & Rovigatti, Michele & Shakhgildyan, Ksenia, 2025, "Algorithmic Competition and Informational Advantage in Digital Markets: Evidence from Search Auctions," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19983, Feb.
• Nicolas Eschenbaum, 2026, "Shared Bidding Algorithms and Competition: Evidence from Electricity Markets," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2607.13002, Jul, revised Aug 2026.
• Liu, Ernest & Ma, Song & Veldkamp, Laura, 2025, "Data Sales and Data Dilution," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20120, Apr.
• Willem Boshoff, 2026, "Industrial-policy objectives in South African competition policy," ERSA Working Paper Series, Economic Research Southern Africa, number 360, Jul.
• Camarda, Enrico & Fleitas, Sebastian, 2025, "Patient Choice, Payment Systems and Multidimensional Quality," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20283, May.
• Nicola Bartolini & Silvia Romagnoli & Amia Santini, 2026, "Beyond the Fixed Price: Valuation and Risk of Non-Standard Renewable PPAs," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2607.03115, Jul.
• Do, Jihwan & Miklos-Thal, Jeanine, 2025, "Price Discrimination against Multi-Clouders," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20101, Apr.
• Kudela, Peter & Havranek, Tomas & Irsova, Zuzana & Kudelova, Anna & Sikl, Vojtech, 2026, "Electricity demand has not become more price-responsive despite ninety years of technological change," EconStor Preprints, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, number 342366.
• Nocke, Volker & Schutz, Nicolas, 2025, "Concentration Indices, Welfare Distortions, and Misallocation in Oligopoly," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20019, Mar.
• Bergemann, Dirk & Bonatti, Alessandro & Wu, Nick, 2025, "Bidding with Budgets: Data-Driven Bid Algorithms in Digital Advertising," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20263, May.
• Jokelainen, Antto & Markkanen, Jaakko & Leppälä, Samuli & Siikanen, Markku & Sipiläinen, Matti & Toivanen, Otto, 2025, "Free Entry and Social Inefficiency in Regulated Pharmacy Markets," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20095, Apr.
• David Imhof & Thierry Madi`es & Martin Huber, 2026, "Swimming in Dark Water: When Cartels Mimic Competition," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2606.30470, Jun.
• Ambec, Stefan & Coria, Jessica, 2025, "Environmental Regulation Informed by Biased Stakeholders," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20292, May.
• Ahlvik, Lassi & Kaariaho, Tuomas & Liski, Matti & Vehviläinen, Iivo, 2025, "Household-Level Responses to the European Energy Crisis," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19972, Feb.
• Olmstead-Rumsey, Jane & Puglisi, Federico & Wu, Liangjie, 2025, "Merger Policy for Platforms: A Growth Theory Perspective," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20156, Apr.
• Magnus Lundgren & Jonas Tallberg, 2026, "Governing Artificial Intelligence: Public Preferences and Regulatory Options," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2607.14585, Jul.
• Eliaz, Kfir & Spiegler, Ran, 2025, "Monopolistic Data Dumping," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20299, May.
• Laveesh Bhandari & Prashant Narang & Aryan Pandey, 2026, "Reassessment after the Finance Act 2021: From "Reason to Believe" to jurisdictional gates," Working Papers, Trustbridge Rule of Law Foundation, number 21, Aug.
• Jarkko Harju & Ida Kankaanranta & Kaisa Kotakorpi, 2026, "Taxi Market Deregulation: Effects on Market Outcomes, Tax Evasion and Crime," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12819.