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National security considerations in competition enforcement

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:oec:dafaac:336-en&r=&r=com

Published: June 2, 2026 00:00

National security considerations are becoming increasingly prominent in economic policymaking, reflecting geopolitical developments, technological change and growing attention to economic security, resilience and technological capability. As these…

Case prioritisation and prosecutorial discretion by competition authorities

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:oec:dafaac:333-en&r=&r=com

Published: June 1, 2026 00:00

Given the limited resources available to competition authorities, decisions around case prioritisation and prosecutorial discretion play a fundamental role in shaping the effectiveness of competition policy. This paper, supported by original survey…

Information sharing in competition policy

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:oec:dafaac:335-en&r=&r=com

Published: June 1, 2026 00:00

Competition rules governing information sharing must balance two primary risks: permissive rules may facilitate tacit collusion or explicit cartel conduct, while overly restrictive frameworks can chill legitimate collaboration and create market…

Rethinking professional services regulation: New evidence from the OECD Product Market Regulation Indicators

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:oec:ecoaaa:1865-en&r=&r=com

Published: June 1, 2026 00:00

Professional services play a central role in modern economies, both as providers of high-skilled services and as key inputs into a wide range of downstream activities. While regulation of these services is commonly justified by information asymmetries and…

Competition and regulation in the healthcare sector

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:oec:dafaac:334-en&r=&r=com

Published: June 1, 2026 00:00

Competition can control costs and incentivise efficiency in the healthcare sector. This paper examines how regulation interacts with competition in healthcare markets and identifies areas where competition authorities can advocate for pro-competitive…

Interchange Fees in Payment Networks Implications for Prices, Profits, and Welfare

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fip:fedpwp:103315&r=&r=com

Published: May 28, 2026 00:00

This paper develops a two-sided model of the payment card market with elastic consumer demand, merchant and network market power, ad valorem interchange fees, cardholder rewards and cash as an alternative payment method. Drawing on insights from public…

Competition and consumer policy in digital markets

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:oec:dafaac:332-en&r=&r=com

Published: May 28, 2026 00:00

Digital markets have profoundly transformed the way consumers interact with businesses, offering new opportunities for innovative goods and services, greater choice, and enhanced convenience. These evolving dynamics create new challenges for both…

Modeling the intensity of competition

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cda:wpaper:381&r=&r=com

Published: May 27, 2026 00:00

Within the context of a symmetric duopoly with linear demand and costs, we construct a parameterized family of price-setting games, where the parameter $\gamma\in[0, 2]$ measures the degree or intensity of competition; $\gamma = 0$ corresponds to…

Multiproduct Multimarket Price Competition under Capacity Constraints

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tor:tecipa:tecipa-821&r=&r=com

Published: May 22, 2026 00:00

Capacity constraints are central to oligopoly competition in many industries, yet existing multiproduct Bertrand theory does not characterize equilibrium when capacity binds across markets. We establish existence and uniqueness of Bertrand–Nash…

Environmental Regulation, Market Power, and Socially Responsible Firms

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tse:wpaper:131729&r=&r=com

Published: May 22, 2026 00:00

We study environmental policy in imperfectly competitive markets where firms differ in their objectives. Alongside standard profit-maximizing firms, we consider welfareoriented firms that partially or fully internalize environmental externalities but are…

Subsidies and market share in the global steel industry

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:oec:stiaac:191-en&r=&r=com

Published: May 18, 2026 00:00

This paper examines how subsidies affect competitive outcomes in the global steel industry. Using firm-level data from the OECD MAGIC database covering 2006–2022, the analysis assesses the relationship between government support and market-share…

Partial identification of the valuation distribution in sequential English auctions

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:azt:cemmap:08/26&r=&r=com

Published: May 14, 2026 00:00

This paper extends the incomplete model of Haile and Tamer (2003) from static English auctions to sequential English auctions. Because bidders may wait for future opportunities, the static condition that bidders do not let rivals win at beatable prices…

A Veterinary Misdiagnosis: Analysing the Decision of Ireland’s CCPC in the IVC Evidensia/Old Church Vets Merger.

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:129081&r=&r=com

Published: May 12, 2026 00:00

This paper analyses the decision of Ireland’s Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) in relation to a merger between two veterinary practice groups. Several aspects of the CCPC’s analysis in the case are highly unsatisfactory. Based on the…

Consumer Fairness Concerns and Price Discrimination of Two-Sided Platforms

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:eca:wpaper:2013/406859&r=&r=com

Published: May 11, 2026 00:00

This paper studies how consumers’ concerns about fairness interact with third-degreeprice discrimination of a two-sided monopoly platform. We show that the presenceof fairness concerns creates a negative demand externality from low-willingness-to-payto…

Some Simple Economics of Green Markets

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rco:dpaper:572&r=&r=com

Published: May 11, 2026 00:00

Policymakers seek to reduce environmentally harmful production by leveraging consumers' demand for low-externality products. Should the exchange of such products be organized under the standard principle of ``one market for one good", creating a separate…

AI Safety and Competition

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tse:wpaper:131711&r=&r=com

Published: May 7, 2026 00:00

This paper examines how competition affects the timing of AI deployment under safety risk. We show that competition can generate two distortions relative to joint–profit maximization: a race to the bottom and insufficient entry. A race to the bottom arises…

Dynamic Recommendation Bias

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tse:wpaper:131694&r=&r=com

Published: April 29, 2026 00:00

This paper studies the incentives of a subscription-funded platform that offers both proprietary and third-party content to bias its recommendations about which con tent users should consume. Consistent with Netflix’s practice, we consider fixed-fee…

Financing the Freight Railway Infrastructure: An Underappreciated Policy Option?

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:128816&r=&r=com

Published: April 21, 2026 00:00

Reform and restructuring of state-owned monopoly freight railways have generally followed one of two strategies. Each has had some success, but the European model of competing train operating companies over a monopoly track has suffered from a lack of…

Gaming the Giants: How Startups Shape Innovation to Spark Acquisition Wars

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tse:wpaper:131684&r=&r=com

Published: April 20, 2026 00:00

We study a startup’s choice of its “direction of innovation, ” how well the technology fits alternative acquirers, and the effects on acquisition outcomes and market dominance. Two horizontally differentiated firms bid to acquire the innovation and then…

Seller-Side Tying of Platform Services

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tse:wpaper:131671&r=&r=com

Published: April 9, 2026 00:00

This paper analyzes seller-side tying on digital platforms, where access to a core intermediation service is conditioned on sellers using an ancillary service (e.g., fulfillment or payments). We model a monopoly platform matching consumers and competing…