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.
IJIO Research Summary – Pharmaceuticals, Incremental Innovation and Market Exclusivity
Many accuse the pharmaceutical industry of “ever-greening” or extending patent protection by introducing new products that are slight improvements over older drugs. Others may argue that incremental innovation may provide important benefits to patients, as evidenced by the heat-stable version of antiretroviral drug, Norvir. We [...]
IJIO Research Summary – Surfing incognito: Welfare effects of anonymous shopping
Online shopping is convenient for consumers. However, it also makes it easy for sellers to keep track of individual customers' purchasing decisions and thereby learn about their willingness to pay. The sellers can then charge personalized prices that leave consumers with a smaller surplus than [...]
EARIE Launches Summer School
Application to the EARIE Summer School is open to any Ph.D. student, or any researcher who defended their thesis in the past 3 years. There are no fees for participants. EARIE membership is not required for applications, but it is encouraged. Find out more about the inaugural [...]
IJIO Research Summary – A sufficient statistics approach for welfare analysis of oligopolistic third‐degree price discrimination
Since December 21, 2012, gender-based premiums in insurance contracts have been prohibited in the EU [1]. If gender-based price discrimination were to be allowed, as it had been before, what would result? In car insurance, for example, the average premium for men would rise and [...]