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Productivity Decomposition in Heterogeneous Industries

Giovanni Dosi, Marco Grazzi, Le Li, Luigi Marengo, Simona Settepanella
In this article we propose a new methodology for computing the aggregate productivity of an industry, its variations and decompositions of the latter into changes of individual productivities (within...

Strategic Delegation to Organizations

Petros G. Sekeris, Dimitrios Xefteris
In this paper, we show that a principal can increase her payoffs by delegating decisions to an organization of agents—a group of rational individuals who interact according to specified rules—even...

SUPPLY- VS DEMAND-SIDE TRANSPARENCY: THE COLLUSIVE EFFECTS UNDER IMPERFECT PUBLIC MONITORING

Luke Garrod, Matthew Olczak
We analyse how market transparency affects collusion under imperfect monitoring where punishment phases occur on-the-equilibrium path. We show that increased transparency causes a `pro-competitive'...

Fostering the Diffusion of General Purpose Technologies: Evidence from the Licensing of the Transistor Patents

Markus Nagler, Monika Schnitzer, Martin Watzinger
How do licensing and technology transfer influence the spread of General Purpose Technologies? To answer this question, we analyze the diffusion of the transistor, one of the most important...

Innovating Yourself Out of a Job

Michael T. Rauh
Continuous improvement, where production workers suggest incremental process improvements, has become standard practice in modern manufacturing. I consider a simple two-period model where workers...

Proportional Fee vs Unit Fee: Competition, Welfare, and Incentives

Dingwei Gu, Zhiyong Yao, WEN ZHOU
This research compares social welfare between unit fee and proportional fee on competing networks. We show that when demand is sub-convex or isoelastic, proportional fee welfare dominates unit fee,...

The Herfindahl-Hirschman Index and the distribution of social surplus

Yossi Spiegel
I show that in a broad range of oligopoly models the Herfindahl-Hirschman index (HHI) reflects the ratio of producer surplus to consumer surplus and therefore the division of surplus between firms'...

Inefficient Screening in Online Rental Markets

Irina Kirysheva, Vladyslav Nora
We study a home rental market where hosts compete in prices of their listings and decide which guests to accept. We find that such screening results in inefficiently many rejections and can even...

INCENTIVIZED MERGERS AND COST EFFICIENCY: EVIDENCE FROM THE ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION INDUSTRY

Robert Clark, Mario Samano
We propose an endogenous merger algorithm to evaluate the impact of government-provided incentives on consolidation patterns for services such as electricity distributors, school boards, hospitals,...

Search and Competition Under Product Quality Uncertainty

YONGMIN CHEN
Abstract I review models of consumer search and competition when product quality is uncertain and differs across firms. Although firms are vertically—and possibly also horizontally—differentiated,...
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Latest News

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;
change of editor

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...

Board meeting

05/19/2016
The 2016 meeting of the board (AGM) will take place in London during the CEPR/JIE Applied industrial organization conference (see http://www.cemmap.ac.uk/uploads/cemmap%202015_16/CEPR-JIE%...
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