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Entry Models Applied to Churches: Could Protestants use a Catholic Bishop to Solve Excess Entry?

Michael W. Walrath
This paper studies the entry behavior of churches of different religious denominations. In a given town, there tend to be fewer Catholic churches (with more members) than there are Protestant...

An Appreciation: Pierre Régibeau Retires from the Journal

Pierre Régibeau stepped down from the editorial board in June of this year. Turnover of editors is part of the life of scientific journals, but Pierre's sixteen years of service to the Journal of...

Introduction to the Symposium on Market Structure, Competition and Economic Outputs

Heski Bar-Isaac
The relationship between market structure, competition and economic outputs is central in industrial organization. This past year, after a significant number of papers on entry and foreclosure had...

Diagnosing Foreclosure due to Exclusive Dealing

John Asker
Exclusive dealing arrangements, in which a distributor agrees to work exclusively with a single manufacturer, can be efficiency enhancing or can be an anticompetitive means to foreclose markets. This...

Does Exclusive Dealing Matter? Evidence from Distribution Contract Changes in The U.S. Beer Industry

Chia-Wen Chen, Shiou Shieh
We examine whether restricting a beer distributor's external trading opportunities increases the market shares of brands carried by the distributor. We use distribution status changes from the...

Foreclosing Competition Through High Access Charges and Price Discrimination

Ángel L. López, Patrick Rey
This article analyzes competition between two asymmetric networks, an incumbent and a new entrant. Networks compete in non-linear tariffs and may charge different prices for on-net and off-net calls...

Fixed Costs and the Product Market Treatment of Preference Minorities

Steven Berry, Alon Eizenberg, Joel Waldfogel
We clarify the sense in which the market outcome may be biased against preference minorities, and estimate the degree of bias using an empirical model of entry into American radio broadcasting...

Endogenous Entry in Markets with Unobserved Quality

Anthony Creane, Thomas D. Jeitschko
Markets for experience and credence goods can suffer from adverse selection. The negative implication for trading and welfare poses the question of how such markets originate. We consider entry in...

Entry and Product Variety with Competing Supply Chains

Marco Pagnozzi, Salvatore Piccolo, Matteo Bassi
We study a model where an endogenous number of competing manufacturers located around a circle contract with exclusive retailers who are privately informed about their costs. The number of brands in...

Auction Platform Design and the Linkage Principle

Wataru Tamura
This paper examines an auction platform in which the monopoly platform maximizes profits by adjusting participation fees and choosing an auction format. The seller has private information on the...
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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%...

Prize for the best theory paper published in 2012-2013

07/17/2015
The prize for the best theory paper published in 2012-2013 has been attributed to Markus Reisinger and Monika Schnitzer For their paper "Successive Oligopolies With Differentiated Firms And...

Next AGM

05/18/2015
The next AGM will take place during the CEPR/JIE conference next May 20-23 in Zurich.
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CEPR-JIE Conference

04/17/2015
The Sixteenth CEPR/JIE Conference on Applied Industrial Organization will take place at the university of Zurich during 21‐23 May 2015. The programs of the school and the conference are...

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04/17/2015
Authors can find under the menu "Guidelines" advice about the type of papers we are likely to publish, instructions to authors when submitting a manuscript, and a checklist for authors of accepted...

New editor

01/02/2015
Alan Sorenson has stepped down as an editor; the board thanks him for his editorial services. We are happy to report that James Roberts (Duke Economics) will serve as an editor starting in January...

Change of editor

11/19/2014
Starting in January 2015, Justin Johnson (Cornell University) will replace Volker Nocke as an editor. Volker statrted his editorship in April 2011.

Prizes for best paper

11/19/2014
Starting in 2014, a prize for the best paper published in the  last two years will be given every even year for a theory paper and every odd year for an applied/empirical paper.Hence in...

Andrew Sweeting will replace Chad Syverson starting July 2014

06/02/2014
Starting in July 2014, Andrew Sweeting (http://public.econ.duke.edu/~atsweet/) will replace Chad Syverson as editor.

New member on the Advisory Council: Ken Hendricks

05/30/2014
After many years of service to the journal, both as an editor and a member of the advisory council, Tom Hubbard is stepping down. Our warmest thanks to Tom for these past years spent with us....
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