International Journal of Industrial Organization

1983 - 2026

Current editor(s): P. Bajari, B. Caillaud and N. Gandal

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Volume 105, issue C, 2026

R&D and firm resilience during bad times

Apoorva Gupta

Competing for time: A study of mobile applications

Han Yuan

Optimal patent screening with imperfect enforcement

Gerard Llobet, Álvaro Parra and Javier Suarez

The dynamics of competition in the Chinese electric vehicle market: Insights from BYD’s market evolution

Yiran Hao and Yu Hao

Did profits cause inflation?

Christopher Conlon

The tails of firm growth, granularity, and business cycles

Carlos Daniel Santos

Menu costs and asymmetric price adjustment

Tore Ellingsen, Richard Friberg and John Hassler

Markups and business dynamism across industries

Brian C. Albrecht and Ryan A. Decker

How package size changes affect food inflation: evidence from scanner data

Christian Rojas, Edward Jaenicke and Elina T. Page

News media bargaining codes

Luca Sandrini and Robert Somogyi

Measuring markups with revenue data

Ivan Kirov, Paolo Mengano and James Traina

The anatomy of costs and firm performance: Evidence from Belgium

Jan De Loecker, Catherine Fuss, Nathan Quiller-Doust and Leonard Treuren

Broad and narrow price parity agreements: Evidence from European hotels

Ben Klopack and Nicola Pierri

Examining the recidivism-productivity growth nexus: Evidence from anti-cartel enforcement in the US

Panagiotis Fotis and Michael Polemis

Exclusive seller-Platform contracts in two-Sided markets: An empirical study of the real estate market

Yue Liu, Rong Luo and Haojun Yu

Mergers and investments: Where do we stand?

Yassine Lefouili and Leonardo Madio

Entry rules and fairness in regulated professions: A quasi-Experimental study of a bar exam reform

Paolo Buonanno, Mario Pagliero and Marcello Puca

Volume 104, issue C, 2026

Information disclosure in expert's market with diagnostic uncertainty

Lin Zhao

Generic entry, price competition, and market segmentation in the prescription drug market – a comment

Izabela Jelovac

Information disclosure and information acquisition in credit markets

Peter Eccles and Paolo Siciliani

Growing bigger or becoming stronger: A response of downstream manufacturing firms to the coal price shock

Yaru Hou, Panbing Wan and Mian Yang

Patents and the choice of research projects

Narumi Teshima

Public procurement cartels: A large-sample testing of screens using machine learning

Mihály Fazekas, Bence Tóth, Johannes Wachs and Aly Abdou

Industrial policy in China: Its development and ongoing transformation

Xiao Fu, Ping Lin and Gaofen Ye

Industrial policies and innovation: Evidence from the global automobile industry

Panle Barwick, Hyuk-Soo Kwon, Shanjun Li, Yucheng Wang and Nahim Bin Zahur

China-US trade war: Firm import-export linkage along global supply chains

Wei Tian, Miaojie Yu and Chunru Zheng

Technology spillovers from Sino-foreign auto joint ventures to indigenous brands

Jing Liang, Larry D. Qiu and Junji Xiao

Is the pursuit of a competition-friendly industrial policy desirable? Evidence from Korea's post-Asian Financial Crisis policy shift

Namhoon Kwon, Minsoo Park and Won Sung

The effectiveness of ’in-market’ and ’out-of-market’ liberalization policies. Evidence from Indian produce markets

Beáta Itin-Shwartz

Standard-setting and the incentives to innovate: Evidence from the IEEE patent policy update

Michela Bonani

Comparative advantage and optimal trade policy with strategic interactions

Mengmeng Dai, Wen-Tai Hsu, Wei Jin, Yongjin Wang and Siqiang Yang

Industrial policy and capacity utilization: Evidence from China’s five-year plans

Hui Li, Wenzhuo Lu, Xiaochen Xie and Heng Yin

Subsidies, new firms, and productivity in global manufacturing

Filippo Belloc and Antonino Lofaro

Supply chain disruption and precautionary industrial policy

Massimo Motta and Michele Polo

State aid for broadband and crowding out of private investment: Evidence from the French market

Marc Bourreau, Lukasz Grzybowski and Ángela Muñoz-Acevedo

Can a tiger change its stripes? Reform of Chinese state-owned enterprises in the penumbra of the state

Ann Harrison, Peichun Wang, Minyuan Zhao, Marshall Meyer and Linda Zhao

The effects of LCC subsidies on the tourism industry

Christian Bontemps, Gianmaria Martini and Flavio Porta

Lessons on industrial policy from industrial organization: Introduction to the special issue

Johannes Van Biesebroeck and Hongsong Zhang

Incentives for contract designers and contractual design

Alexander Rodivilov

Outsourcing without cost advantages

Chrysovalantou Milliou

Volume 103, issue PB, 2025

Collecting and selling consumer information: Selling mechanisms matter

David Bounie, Antoine Dubus and Patrick Waelbroeck

Socially responsible lobbying

Saara Hämäläinen and Yi Zheng

Corrigendum to “Brewed in North America: Mergers, marginal costs, and efficiency” [International Journal of Industrial Organization 59 (2018) 24–65]

Paul Grieco, Joris Pinkse and Margaret Slade

Lost green leaders: Is China's green financial regulation efficient?

Wen Wang, Qi Pan and Xiaoming Xie

How do hospital markets respond to universal health insurance?

Chia-Lun Liu, Shin-Yi Chou, Hsien-Ming Lien and Mary E. Deily

Welfare implications of personalized pricing in competitive platform markets: The role of network effects

Qiuyu Lu, Noriaki Matsushima and Shiva Shekhar

Export market entry of Chinese SMEs: The role of scale economies and outstanding trade credit

Johannes Van Biesebroeck and Honghao Zheng

Competition and cooperation in international air travel markets with complements and substitutes

Xiao Fu and Guofu Tan

Greening vehicle fleets: A structural analysis of scrappage programs during the financial crisis

Taiju Kitano

Does costly persuasion signal quality?

Elias Carroni, Luca Ferrari and Giuseppe Pignataro

Market definition: A sensitivity analysis

Paul S. Koh

Disclosure and pricing with heterogeneous priors

Hien Pham

Consumer search costs and the provision of service quality

Jose Moraga-Gonzalez and Yajie Sun

Mergers and unionization: Roll together or clash?

Qi Ge, Donggeun Kim, Myongjin Kim and Jangsu Yoon

Volume 103, issue PA, 2025

Denial of interoperability and future first-party entry

Massimo Motta and Martin Peitz

Merger of complements: Empirical evidence from the eyewear industry

Germain Gaudin and Niklas Nagel

Evaluating the impact of price caps - Evidence from the European roam-like-at-home regulation

Giulia Canzian, Gianluca Mazzarella, Louis Ronchail, Frank Verboven and Stefano Verzillo

Big tech acquisitions

Luís Cabral

Artificial intelligence and competition policy

Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright

Data brokers competition, synergic datasets, and endogenous information value

Laura Abrardi, Carlo Cambini and Flavio Pino

Digital business models and quality investment

Marie-Laure Allain, Marc Bourreau and Pierre-François Darlas