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PLATFORM ENCROACHMENT AND OWN‐CONTENT BIAS*

Yusuke Zennyo
This paper presents a model of platform encroachment, in which a platform not only acts as an intermediary between consumers and third-party sellers, but also sells its first-party products. When...

No Beer No Friends: Quantifying the Effect of the Beer Boycott

In Kyung Kim, Kyoo il Kim
We study the impact of the boycott on Japanese products, initiated in July, 2019, in the Korean beer market. First, sales of japanese beer decreased by more than 70 percent during the 14-month...

Local Network Effects in the Adoption of a Digital Platform

Jin‐Hyuk Kim, Peter Newberry, Liad Wagman, Ran Wolff
Abstract We examine the extent to which network effects on a digital platform are geographically local. Focusing on the fantasy sports market, we find that the size of a county's existing user base...

When do Co‐located Firms Selling Identical Products Thrive?

Dan Bernhardt, Evangelos Constantinou, Mehdi Shadmehr
When consumers only see prices once they visit stores, and some consumers have time to comparison shop, co-location commits stores to compete and lower prices, which draws consumers away from...

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The Journal of Industrial Economics, Volume 70, Issue 2, June 2022.

Bundling Sequentially Released Durable Goods

Luís Cabral, Gabriel Natividad
Suppose two durables are sequentially released and suppose that consumer valuations of these goods are positively correlated. By the time the second good is released, high-valuation buyers are out...

Patent Licensing, Non‐Practising Entities, and Investment in R&D

James Bergin
Abstract This paper studies the impact of Non-Practising Entities (NPE's) on investment in innovation. The issue is considered in an environment with strategic investment behavior and licensing....

Self‐Preferencing in Markets with Vertically Integrated Gatekeeper Platforms

Jorge Padilla, Joe Perkins, Salvatore Piccolo
The competitive strategies of ‘gatekeeper’ platforms are subject to enhanced scrutiny. For instance, Apple and Google are being accused of charging excessive access fees to app providers and...

Antitrust Limits on Patent Settlements: A New Approach

Erik Hovenkamp, Jorge Lemus
Abstract Patent settlements between rivals restrain competition in many different ways. Antitrust requires that their anticompetitive effects are reasonably commensurate with the firms' expectations...

The Impact of Environmental Fraud on the Used Car Market: Evidence from Dieselgate

Itai Ater, Nir S. Yoseph
This study explores the effects of Volkswagen’s 2015 emissions scandal (‘Dieselgate’) on the used car market in Israel. Using a difference-in-differences research design and administrative and...
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Latest News

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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