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Industrial Competition
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Algorithmic Pricing and Competition: Balancing Efficiency and Consumer Welfare
https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cir:circah:2025pr-09&r=&r=com
Published: August 4, 2025 00:00
This article examines the competitive implications of algorithmic pricing in digital markets. While algorithmic pricing can enhance market efficiency through real-time adjustments, personalized offers, and inventory optimization, it also raises substantialâŚ
Monetizing Digital Content with Network Effects
https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rco:dpaper:541&r=&r=com
Published: July 30, 2025 00:00
We design profit-maximizing mechanisms to sell an excludable and non-rival good with positive and/or negative network effects. Buyers have heterogeneous private values that depend on how many others also consume the good. In optimum, an endogenous numberâŚ
Surplus Squeeze and Informational Hold-Up
https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rco:dpaper:538&r=&r=com
Published: July 22, 2025 00:00
We study a static bilateral trade setting with moral hazard, where a seller privately chooses quality and a buyer may pay to verify it. We show that buyer-side information acquisition can lead to informational hold-up through a mechanism wecall surplusâŚ
Workersâ Motivation and Quality of Services in Mission-Driven Sectors
https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tse:wpaper:130749&r=&r=com
Published: July 18, 2025 00:00
This paper studies how firmsâ ownership choices and workersâ intrinsic motivation jointly shape service quality and market outcomes in labor-intensive, mission-driven sectors. Two organizations first choose whether to operate as standard for-profit or asâŚ
Firmsâ Wage-Setting Power: A New Take on Monopsony in the Labor Market
https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fip:l00001:101337&r=&r=com
Published: July 17, 2025 00:00
Why do some firms seem to pay workers less than what their labor is worth? An economic model gives insights into how wage-setting power arises in modern labor markets.
Do Informed Consumers Pay Less? Evidence from a Survey with Linked Grocery Purchase Data
https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:nhheco:2025_015&r=&r=com
Published: July 14, 2025 00:00
This paper examines how consumer price knowledge affects shopping behavior and the prices consumers pay in grocery markets. We combine survey-based price recall data from over 2000 Norwegian households â yielding over 70 000 price recalls across twoâŚ
When Fewer Bids Increase Competition: Buyer Surplus Enhancing Mergers in Single-Award Procurement Auctions
https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rtv:ceisrp:607&r=&r=com
Published: July 9, 2025 00:00
We show that in a single-lot low-price auction, a merger can be simultaneously profitable and increase the buyerâs surplus, even in the absence of cost synergies. Thus the buyerâs purchasing price may go down even when a lower number of bids is submitted.âŚ
Price Discrimination and Online Sales in the Automobile Industry
https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tse:wpaper:130672&r=&r=com
Published: July 8, 2025 00:00
We investigate the welfare consequences of introducing an online distribution channel in the French car industry, where most sales take place in person through car dealers relying on third-degree price discrimination. We estimate a structural model ofâŚ
Vertical Integration: Towards a Guide for Practitioners
https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tse:wpaper:130643&r=&r=com
Published: July 2, 2025 00:00
The âNetflix effectâ revisited: OTT video, media globalization and digital sovereignty in 4 countries
https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ehl:lserod:127739&r=&r=com
Published: June 30, 2025 00:00
This article examines the interplay between the âNetflix effectâ of media globalisation and the reassertion of âdigital sovereigntyâ through national competition, content, and industrial policy. Taking a case study approach the study is based on analysisâŚ