IJIO Special issue on “Market Power and the Macroeconomy”
Guest editors: Christopher Conlon (NYU, Guest Editor) Alon Eizenberg (Hebrew-U, IJIO Coeditor) Paper submission deadline: December 31, 2024 The recent inflationary environment has brought about a lively debate concerning the relationship between the exercise of market power, on the one hand, and inflation on [...]
IJIO Special Issue on “Industrial Policy and Industrial Organization”
Guest editors: Johannes Van Biesebroeck (KU Leuven) Hongsong Zhang (University of Hong Kong) Paper submission deadline: Oct. 31, 2024 Industrial policies -- which we define as government interventions in specific industries that can have various objectives, such as stimulating technological innovation or promoting competitiveness -- [...]
EARIE – CEPR Virtual Seminar
EARIE & CEPR join forces to organise one of the seminars of CEPR's VIOS series. The joint workshop will be held on Wednesday, April 24 at 15:00 CEST and will be given by Nikhil Agarwal (MIT) about Combining Human Expertise with Artificial Intelligence: Experimental Evidence [...]
IJIO Research Summary – Labor Market Power and Between-Firm Wage (In)Equality
The past years have witnessed a growing interest in studying firm market power in labor markets. Two critical questions are: Which firms exercise labor market power and how does firms’ labor market power shape firms’ wage differences? Addressing these questions is vital in the context [...]
IJIO Research Summary – Umbrella Pricing and Cartel Size
Making cartels pay for umbrella damages may be desirable, but not for the reasons you think... A right to compensation for umbrella effects of cartel formation, or harm resulting from non-members' economic reactions, was established by the EU Court of Justice ten years ago (Case [...]
IJIO Research Summary – How resale price maintenance and loss leading affect upstream cartel stability: Anatomy of a coffee cartel
Many recent cartels in the EU and the UK (e.g., coffee, sweets, pet food, beer, beauty and personal hygiene, and baby products) involve producer cartels colluding on wholesale prices AND including retailers in the cartel, e.g., by imposing minimum retail prices. This feature is not [...]