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Common Values and Low Reserve Prices

Daniel Quint
I show that the benefit of a high reserve price in a common-values ascending auction is lower than in the observationally equivalent private values setting. Put another way, when bidders have common...

Do Multi-Plant Firms Reduce Misallocation? Evidence from Canadian Manufacturing

Pavel Sevcik
Using Canadian plant-level data, this paper shows that, depending on the industry, the differences in the average plant-level productivity and cross-plant allocation of resources between multi-...

Who Loses when Prices are Negotiated? An Analysis of the New Car Market

Ambarish Chandra, Sumeet Gulati, James M. Sallee
We establish that there are large and persistent differences in final transaction prices for identical new cars, and that demographic characteristics explain at least 20% of the observed variation....

Productivity Dynamics and the Role of ‘Big-Box’ Entrants in Retailing

Florin Maican, Matilda Orth
We use a dynamic model to measure the impact of the entry of large stores on incumbents’ productivity separate from demand while accounting for local markets and the endogeneity of entry. Using data...

The Impact of Mergers on Quality Provision: Evidence from the Airline Industry

Jeffrey T. Prince, Daniel H. Simon
We examine how mergers affect quality provision by analyzing five U.S. airline mergers, focusing on on-time performance (OTP). We find that airline mergers have minimal negative impacts on OTP, and...

The Value of Delegated Quality Control

Alexander E. Saak
This paper studies the case in which a firm delegates quality control to an independent monitor. In a repeated game, consumers’ trust provides incentives to acquire information about whether the...

Prices, Locations and Welfare When an Online Retailer Competes with Heterogeneous Brick-and-Mortar Retailers

Wen-Chung Guo, Fu-Chuan Lai
This study proposes a novel spatial model in which an online retailer competes with heterogeneous brick-and-mortar retailers. Consumers are assumed to be non-uniformly distributed along an urban-...

Profit Raising Entry

Arijit Mukherjee, Laixun Zhao
Common wisdom suggests that entry reduces profits of incumbent firms. On the contrary, we demonstrate that if the incumbents differ in marginal costs and the entrants behave like Stackelberg...

Patent Protection and R&D with Endogenous Market Structure

Arijit Mukherjee
In a model with endogenous number of innovating firms, we show that whether patent protection increases R...

Payment Card Interchange Fees and Price Discrimination

Rong Ding, Julian Wright
We consider the implications of platform price discrimination in the context of card platforms. Despite the platform's ability to price discriminate, we show that it will set fees for card usage that...
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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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