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Modeling Competition over Multiple Variables under Limited Consumer Awareness

Samir Mamadehussene, Francisco Silva
When analyzing firm competition over two strategic variables (e.g., quality and price), it is important to decide whether to model it as a one-stage or a two-stage game. Our analysis focuses on...

Platform Price Parity Clauses and Consumer Obfuscation

José Ignacio Heresi
Several antitrust authorities have investigated platform price parity clauses around the world. I analyze the impact of these clauses when platforms design a search environment for sellers and buyers...

Uniform Pricing as a Barrier to Entry

Hong Feng, Youping Li, Jie Shuai
This paper considers an entry game in which an incumbent firm operates in a number of markets and a potential entrant can enter multiple or all of the markets. While price discrimination has usually...

Is the Patent System an Even Playing Field? The Effect of Patent Attorney Firms

Gaétan De Rassenfosse, Paul H. Jensen, T'Mir Julius, Alfons Palangkaraya, Elizabeth Webster
Abstract The patent system underpins the business model of some of the fastest-growing companies. Used appropriately, it should support frontier technologies and nurture new firms. Used perniciously...

Multimarket Contact in Health Insurance: Evidence from Medicare Advantage

Haizhen Lin, Ian M. McCarthy
Many industries consist of large firms that compete in multiple geographic markets. Such overlap, defined as multimarket contact (MMC), may facilitate tacit collusion and soften competition. We...

Vertical Contract Disclosure in Three‐Tier Industries

Michele Bisceglia
Consider a three-tier industry with a monopolist supplying a manufacturer which sells its product to final consumers through two retailers. Contracts are linear and secret. Hence, upon receiving an...

Regulating Data Privacy and Cybersecurity

Wing Man Wynne Lam, Jacob Seifert
This paper studies firms' data privacy and cybersecurity choices. We emphasise the strategic interdependence between these decisions and demonstrate that security in both the market equilibrium and...

Aggregate Information and Organizational Structures

Gorkem Celik, Dongsoo Shin, Roland Strausz
We study information flows in an organization with a top management (principal) and multiple subunits (agents) with private information that determines the organization's overall efficiency. Under...

Simulating Hospital Merger Simulations

David J. Balan, Keith Brand
We perform a Monte Carlo experiment to assess the performance of three hospital merger simulation methods. Our analysis proceeds as follows: (i) specify a theoretical model of hospital markets and...

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The Journal of Industrial Economics, Volume 71, Issue 1, March 2023.
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New Associate Editor

11/23/2021
We are happy to welcome Anne-Katrin Roesler as an associate editor to our board of editors.
Anne-Katrin Roesler

CEPR/JIE 2022 conference

09/08/2021
The CEPR/JIE 2022 conference will take place in Berlin on 13-15 June 2022. Details will be available on CEPR's website.

Change of editor

04/30/2021
One of our editors, Ying Fan, is ending her mandate (thank you Ying for your service) and we are please to welcome Meghan Busse (Northwestern) to the editorial board;
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editor leaving and new editors

01/11/2021
James Roberts ended his mandate in December 2020 and we thank him for his great service. Two new editors joined the board in January 2021, Ryan McDewitt and Panle Jia Barwick, bringing the...

New members at the Advisory Council

09/04/2018
Ginger Zhe JIn (home page) and Julie Holland Mortimer (home page) will be joining the Advisory Council. The board thanks them for their willingness to help steer the journal in the coming years....

Kai-Uwe Kühn

09/04/2018
The board thanks Kai-Une Kühn fo rhaving served two mandates on the Advisory Council (after having served many eyeqrs as an editor of the journal).

CEPR-JIE Applied industrial organization conference

06/23/2018
The Journal of Industrial Economics is one of the sponsors of the CEPR-JIE Applied Industrial Organization conference, and this year the conference took place at KULeuven. More than 120 submissions...
Program of the CEPR-JIE conference KULeuven, June 120, 2018

New editor

06/23/2018
The members of the board are pleased to welcome professor Matthew Mitchell as a member of the board of editors. Matt will replace Heski as one of our "theory" editors. 
website of Matthew Mitchell

Change of editor

06/23/2018
Heski Bar Isaak who has been an editor since 2012 will be stepping down as editor at the end of June 2018. Heski has been instrumental in selecting high quality papers in theory. The members of the...

2018 board meeting

05/15/2018
The editorial board will have its annual board meeting on 18 June 2018 during hte CEPR/JIE Applied industrial organization conference which takes places this year at KULeuven (Belgium) on June...
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