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Differentiated Standards and Patent Pools

Aaron Schiff, Reiko Aoki
We consider patent pool formation by owners of essential patents for differentiated standards that may be complements or substitutes in use. Pooling improves coordination in terms of royalty...

The Effect of Explicit Communication on pricing: Evidence from the Collapse of a Gasoline Cartel

Robert Clark, Jean-François Houde
We study the collapse of collusion in Québec's retail gasoline market following a Competition Bureau investigation, and show that it involved two empirical regularities: high margins, and asymmetric...

Motivating a Supplier to Test Product Quality

Yaron Yehezkel
This paper considers a supplier that offers a buyer a new product of unknown quality. The supplier can run a test that partially reveals unverifiable information concerning the quality, and the...

Cross-Border Mergers and Market Segmentation

Amrita Ray Chaudhuri
This paper shows that cross-border mergers are more likely to occur in industries which serve multiple segmented markets rather than a single integrated market, given that cost functions are...

Reverse Price Discrimination with Bayesian Buyers

Se Hoon Bang, Jaesoo Kim, Young-Ro Yoon
This paper studies price discrimination under the situation in which buyers' prior valuations are initially observable by a seller but buyers receive further information about a product or service...

Is the ‘Linkage Principle’ Valid? Evidence from the Field

Sung-Jin Cho, Harry J. Paarsch, John Rust
We present field evidence concerning experienced bidders that supports the linkage principle—specifically, the prediction that in affiliated-values auction environments the expected revenues...

Information Unraveling Revisited: Disclosure of Horizontal Attributes

Levent Celik
This paper analyzes in a spatial framework how much information a seller discloses about the variety he sells when he faces a buyer with a privately known taste for variety. I identify an...

Price Adjustment Policies in Procurement Contracting: An Analysis of Bidding Behavior

Georgia Kosmopoulou, Xueqi Zhou
The fluctuations in fuel prices over the past decade led a number of government agencies to introduce price adjustment clauses in procurement contracting. Those clauses were primarily designed to...

On Welfare Losses Due to Imperfect Competition

Robert A. Ritz
Corporate managers and executive compensation in many industries place significant emphasis on measures of firm size, such as sales revenue or market share. Such objectives have an important—yet thus...

Naked Exclusion in the Lab: The Case of Sequential Contracting

Jan Boone, Wieland Müller, Sigrid Suetens
In the context of the naked exclusion model of Rasmusen, Ramseyer and Wiley [1991] and Segal and Whinston [2009b], we examine whether sequential contracting is more conducive to exclusion in the lab...
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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 Hendrick

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....

March 2014 issue

03/10/2014
The March 2014 issue is available online (Wiley link here) and will be distributed on March 10. 

September special Issue on "Patents, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation"

10/07/2013
The September issue of Journal of Industrial Economics will be devoted to patents "Patents, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation" and the special editor in charge of the issue is Mark Schankerman, a...

ACE conference

10/07/2013
The Association for Competition Economics will held its annual conference in Brussels on December 13-14.
2013 ACE conference in Brussels

Welcome to our new associate editors

07/17/2013
The list of associate editors has been significantly expanded. AE are a fantastic resources for the editors and we welcome them warmly aboard JINDEC.
list of AEs

New editor starting in July 2013

06/19/2013
The editorial board thanks Saul Lach for his great service as an editor. Saul is leaving us in July and will be replaced by Chad Syverson from the university of Chicago. 
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