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Selling Consumer Data: Why the Mechanism Matters for Competition and Privacy? Competition and privacy in the digital economy are shaped by data intermediaries, firms that collect and sell consumer information. Our recent study published in the International Journal of Industrial Organization, “Collecting and Selling Consumer [...]

Digital platforms rely on reputation systems to address information asymmetries, yet how platforms aggregate and display this information can profoundly affect competitive behavior and innovation. In a recent IJIO paper, Platform Design and Innovation Incentives: Evidence from the Product Rating System on Apple's App Store, [...]

Antitrust enforcers typically assess monopolization on a market-by-market basis, focusing on the specific market under investigation while overlooking potential future impacts on competition or anticompetitive conduct in related markets. In a recent article (here), Paolo Ramezzana takes a broader look at the issue by exploring [...]

Guest editors: Ginger Zhe Jin (University of Maryland) Thomas J. Holmes (University of Minnesota) Steve Tadelis (University of California, Berkeley). Paper submission deadline: November 30, 2025   The International Journal of Industrial Organization (IJIO) invites submissions for a specialissue honoring the life and contributions of Dr. Patrick [...]

EARIE warmly congratulates: Gaurab Aryal Nano Barahona Zach Brown Austin Drukker Luise Eisfeld Matteo Escude’ Chiara Farronato Chiara Fumagalli Shota Ichihashi David Imhof Doh-Shin Jeon Paul Koh Nathan Larson Gaston Llanos Marleen Marra Yuta Toyama Wen Wang for having been awarded the recognition of being [...]