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Input Price Discrimination, Demand Forms, And Welfare

Germain Gaudin, Romain Lestage
We analyse the effects of input price discrimination in the canonical model where an upstream monopolist sells to downstream firms with various degrees of efficiency. We first recast a series of...

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...

Bundling with Resale

Drew Vollmer
How does resale affect multiproduct bundling? I investigate using a model of monopoly bundling with costly resale. Consumers purchase in the primary market while anticipating resale, then participate...

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...

Learning by Selling, Knowledge Spillovers, and Patents

Yves Guéron, Jihong Lee
We examine the incentives for experimentation in the context of innovation and market competition. A monopolist chooses whether to sell early-stage product or perform costly scale-up R...

Customer‐Based Customization and Price Competition

Stefano Colombo, Paolo G. Garella
Among the many consequences for production processes, new technologies, including 3D-printing and web-based co-design, provide end-users with increasingly effective means to locally reshape and co-...

Time‐Limited Loyalty Rewards

Ramon Caminal
I examine an infinite-horizon model in which a monopolist can commit to sell the good to repeat customers at a reduced price. Such an option may or may not expire. Consumer preferences are subject to...

Input Price Discrimination, Two‐Part Tariffs and Bargaining

Ioannis N. Pinopoulos
I investigate the welfare effects of input price discrimination when an upstream supplier bargains over secret two-part tariffs with two cost-asymmetric downstream firms. I find that these welfare...

Issue Information

The Journal of Industrial Economics, Volume 70, Issue 3, September 2022.

Unboxing the Causal Effect of Ratings on Product Demand: Evidence from Wayfair.com

Evan Magnusson
Using a regression discontinuity design, I estimate the causal effect of increasing product ratings by half a star on Wayfair.com to be a 5% increase in product demand. Utilizing a transaction-level...
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New Associate Editor

11/23/2021
We are happy to welcome Anne-Katrin Roesler as an associate editor to our board of editors.
Anne-Katrin Roesler

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...
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