Warning: is_dir(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/libraries) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/web1050:/usr/share/php) in libraries_get_libraries() (line 176 of /home/web1050/public_html/sites/all/modules/contrib/libraries/libraries.module).

Recently Published Articles

Bad NGOs? Competition in the Market for Donations and Workers' Misconduct

Nadia Burani, Ester Manna
ABSTRACT In this paper, we investigate how competition among NGOs to attract donations shapes the incentives that NGOs provide to their employees. NGOs hire workers to undertake development projects...

RPM and Vertical Integration With Upstream Competition and Noncontractible Efforts

Michele Bisceglia, Mark Israel, Salvatore Piccolo, Paolo Ramezzana
ABSTRACT We study RPM and vertical integration in a common agency setting with two differentiated manufacturers and one retailer, where consumer demand depends on both the manufacturers' and...

Microcredit From Delaying Bill Payments

William Violette
ABSTRACT Delaying bill payments to public utilities may provide an important strategy for households with volatile incomes to smooth their consumption. At the same time, allowing late payments may...

Optimal Simple Ratings

Hugo Hopenhayn, Maryam Saeedi
ABSTRACT We study optimal simple rating systems that partition sellers into a finite number of tiers. We show that optimal ratings must be threshold partitions, and that for linear supply and...

Share to Scare: Technology Sharing in the Absence of Intellectual Property Rights

JOS JANSEN
ABSTRACT Cournot duopolists choose between sharing their technologies, for example, through scientific publications, or keeping them secret. The disadvantage of sharing efficient technologies is...

Transparency and Innovation in Organizations

Osamu Hayashida, Kimiyuki Morita, Takeharu Sogo
ABSTRACT We study how transparency—the observability of interim performance measures—affects innovation incentives. In each of two periods, an agent selects either a new or well-established idea and...

Financial Incentives for the Development of Blockchain‐Based Platforms

Andrea Canidio
ABSTRACT I develop a theoretical model showing that an entrepreneur prefers to create a decentralized digital platform with a crypto-token as its internal currency (rather than a traditional...

Multiproduct Firms, Consumer Search, and Demand Heterogeneity

Yuta Kittaka
ABSTRACT I construct a consumer search model with demand-side heterogeneity, in which some consumers search for a single product while others search for multiple products. I show that a positive...

Flagship Entry in Online Marketplaces

Ginger Zhe Jin, Zhentong Lu, Xiaolu Zhou, Lu Fang
ABSTRACT In this paper, we empirically study how flagship entry in an online marketplace affects consumers, the platform, and various sellers on the platform. We find flagship entry may benefit...

The Productivity Effect of Public–Private Partnership

Vincenzo Mollisi
ABSTRACT Public–Private partnerships (PPPs) are often employed by public authorities to deliver infrastructure and public services through contracts bundling construction, operation, and maintenance...
View all

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%...
View all

Published with

© 2013 The journal of Industrial Economics, Ltd.