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 [...]
IJIO Research Summary – Behavior-Based Personalized Pricing: When Firms Can Share Customer Information
Advances in digital computing technologies have allowed firms access to a vast amount of consumer data at the granular level. Consumer data analyzed by powerful machine-learning tools can be a source of competitive advantage. One important way firms gather consumer data is through customers’ purchase [...]
IJIO Research Summary – Market Dynamics and Investment in the Electricity Sector
Renewable electricity generation in the U.S. continues to grow, stimulated by favorable public policies and falling costs for renewables. However, the transition to a low-carbon electricity grid will not happen overnight. We are in the midst of a multi-decade transition toward a cleaner grid. During [...]
The IJIO Best Paper Award
The winners of the IJIO Best Paper Awards 2023 have been announced. The 2023 Award has two categories - Best Theory Paper and Best Empirical paper. Best Theory paper (published 2022) goes to Chongwoo Choe, Noriaki Matsushima and Mark J. Tremblay Best Empirical paper (published [...]
50th Year Best Paper Award Announced
In occasion of EARIE’s 50th Conference, which was held in Rome between August 24 and 26, EARIE announced the winner of the 50th Year Best Paper Award. Winner: The Award was given to Jean-François Fournel for this paper Electric Vehicle Subsidies: Cost-effectiveness and Emission Reduction. [...]
Young Economists’ Essay Award (YEEA) Announced
The Young Economists’ Essay Awards (YEEA) have been announced during the EARIE 2023 Conference in Rome. As every year EARIE is please to announce the new winners of the YEEA. Full details on Award winners here.