OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Industrial Organization is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Linear demand systems for differentiated goods: Overview and user’s guide	43
The effect of horizontal mergers, when firms compete in prices and investments	34
A retrospective study on the regional benefits and spillover effects of high-speed broadband networks: Evidence from German counties	26
The leniency rule revisited: Experiments on cartel formation with open communication	19
Playlisting favorites: Measuring platform bias in the music industry	18
The energy transition: An industrial economics perspective	17
Micro-mechanisms behind declining labor shares: Rising market power and changing modes of production	16
FDI and quality-enhancing technology spillovers	16
Does competition increase quality? Evidence from the US airline industry	15
Behavior based price personalization under vertical product differentiation	15
Prioritization vs zero-rating: Discrimination on the internet	14
Behavior-based personalized pricing: When firms can share customer information	14
Device-funded vs ad-funded platforms	13
Algorithmic collusion with imperfect monitoring	13
Exclusionary pricing in two-sided markets	11
Mergers and coordinated effects	11
Online trade platforms: Hosting, selling, or both?	11
Low-powered vs high-powered incentives: Evidence from German electricity networks	11
Renewable support and strategic pricing in electricity markets	11
Platform competition with complementary products	10
The transfer system in European football: A pro-competitive no-poaching agreement?	10
The tension between market shares and profit under platform competition	10
Can personalized pricing be a winning strategy in oligopolistic markets with heterogeneous demand customers? Yes, it can	10
Optimal dynamic volume-based price regulation	9
Identifying airline price discrimination and the effect of competition	9

Consumer search and income inequality	8
Loyalty discounts and price-cost tests	8
Quantifying the benefits of the introduction of the hybrid electric vehicle	8
Combining cartel penalties and private damage actions: The impact on cartel prices	8
Dynamic merger policy and pre-merger product choice by an entrant	8
Stackelberg versus Cournot oligopoly with private information	8
Platform competition with free entry of sellers	7
Regulating online search in the EU: From the android case to the digital markets act and digital services act	7
Ultra-fast broadband access and productivity: Evidence from Italian firms	7
Self-preferencing and foreclosure in digital markets: Theories of harm for abuse cases	7
When prohibiting wholesale price-parity agreements may harm consumers	7
Pricing distortions in multi-sided platforms	7
Analyzing firm behavior in restructured electricity markets: Empirical challenges with a residual demand analysis	6
Streaming Stimulates the Live Concert Industry: Evidence from YouTube	6
The impact of price adjustment costs on price dispersion in e-commerce	6
The effects of personal information on competition: Consumer privacy and partial price discrimination	6
Are zombies for real? Evidence from zombie dynamics	6
Recommenders’ originals: The welfare effects of the dual role of platforms as producers and recommender systems	6
Horizontal merger analysis	6
The Anticompetitiveness of a Private Information Exchange of Prices	6
Algorithmic collusion: Genuine or spurious?	6
Determinants of economies of scope in retail	6
The incidence of VAT reforms in electricity markets: Evidence from Belgium	5
Transaction costs and competition policy	5
Third-degree price discrimination in oligopoly with endogenous input costs	5
The impact of consumer protection in the digital age: Evidence from the European Union	5
Risk aversion and auction design: Theoretical and empirical evidence	5
Vertical relations, pass-through, and market definition: Evidence from grocery retailing	4
Do birds of a feather flock together? Platform’s quality screening and end-users’ choices theory and empirical study of online trading platforms	4
Optimal vaccine subsidies for endemic diseases	4
Absorptive capacity, knowledge spillovers and incentive contracts	4
Who are you? Cartel detection using unlabeled data	4
Journal competition and the quality of published research: Simultaneous versus sequential screening	4
Market dynamics and investment in the electricity sector	4
Product specification under a threat of entry: Evidence from Airlines’ departure times	4
Search algorithm, repetitive information, and sales on online platforms	4
The effect of online shopping channels on brand choice, product exploration and price elasticities	4
Private labels in marketplaces	4
A sufficient statistics approach for welfare analysis of oligopolistic third‐degree price discrimination	4
Supply chain disruptions and sourcing strategies	4
Modelling the objective function of managers in the presence of overlapping shareholding	4
An experiment on partial cross-ownership in oligopolistic markets	3
Overlapping ownership and product innovation	3
Product innovation with vertical differentiation: Is a monopolist's incentive weaker?	3
Empirical approaches to trust and relational contracts	3
Rising markups, common ownership, and technological capacities	3
Mergers with future rivals can boost prices, bar entry, and intensify market concentration	3
R&D competition and the direction of innovation	3
Liquidity constraints and the formation of unbalanced contests	3
Impact of roaming regulation on revenues and prices of mobile operators in the EU	3

Markups in a dual labour market: The case of the Netherlands	3
Who commits fraud? evidence from korean gas stations.	3
Pass-through and tax incidence in differentiated product markets	3
25 years of European merger control	3
The impact of vertical integration on losses from collusion	3
Strategic interactions in mobile network investment with a new entrant and unobserved heterogeneity	3
Language as a barrier to entry: Foreign competition in Georgian public procurement	3
What’s in a name? The incidence of gasoline excise taxes versus gasoline carbon levies	3
Optimal use of patents and trade secrets for complex innovations	3
Persuading to participate: Coordination on a standard	3
Bank-platform competition in the credit market	2
Demand for in-app purchases in mobile apps—A difference-in-difference approach	2
Entry deregulation, firm organization, and wage inequality	2
The effects of franchising on stores, competitors, and consumers	2
Underpromise and overdeliver? - Online product reviews and firm pricing	2
Consequences of model choice in predicting horizontal merger effects	2
Pricing, advertising, and endogenous consideration of an “insistent” product	2
Profit Sharing and Incentives	2
Discrimination in Dynamic Procurement Design with Learning-by-doing	2
Which policies for vaccine innovation and delivery in Europe?	2
Welfare effects of public procurement of medicines: Evidence from Ecuador	2
An empirical model of the effects of “bill shock” regulation in mobile telecommunication markets	2
Multi-product firm price and variety response to firm-specific cost shocks	2
Joint bidding and horizontal subcontracting	2
Informative advertising in monopolistically competitive markets	2
Distribution of the benefits of regulation vs. competition: The case of mobile telephony in South Africa	2
Price authority and information sharing with competing supply chains	2
Evaluating the impact of divestitures on competition: Evidence from Alberta’s wholesale electricity market	2
The effect of mergers on variety in grocery retailing	2
Strategic dynamics of antibiotic use and the evolution of antibiotic-resistant infections	2
Simulating media platform mergers	2
Competition for imperfect consumers	2
Surfing incognito: Welfare effects of anonymous shopping	2
The pricing of ancillary goods when selling on a platform	2
Strategic information disclosure in vertical markets	2
Mergers of Complements: On the Absence of Consumer Benefits	2
How Do Top Acquirers Compare in Technology Mergers? New Evidence from an S&P Taxonomy	2
Incentives for pharmaceutical innovation: What’s working, what’s lacking	2
Telemedicine competition, pricing, and technology adoption: Evidence from talk therapists	2
Mergers and innovation: Evidence from the hard disk drive market	2
Deceptive advertising, regulation and naive consumers	2
Self-regulation vs state regulation: Evidence from cinema age restrictions	2
Price leadership with promotions	1
Open price contracts, locked-in buyers, and opportunism	1
The information paradox in a monopolist’s credence goods market	1
Overlapping ownership and input prices	1
Collusion in capacity under irreversible investment	1
Tying in evolving industries, when future entry cannot be deterred	1
R&D restructuring during the Great Recession and young firms	1
Multiproduct search obfuscation	1
Escaping search when buying	1
Price effects of search advertising restrictions	1
Price competition with a stake in your rival	1
Content-distribution strategies in markets with locked-in customers	1
The effect of design protection on price and price dispersion: Evidence from automotive spare parts	1
Upward pricing pressure in two-sided markets: Incorporating rebalancing effects	1
Quality Differentiation and Spatial Clustering among Restaurants	1
Merger efficiency gains: Evidence from a large transport merger in france	1
Flagging cartel participants with deep learning based on convolutional neural networks	1
Bank regulation and market structure	1
Price staggering in cartels	1
Information constraints and examination quality in patent offices: The effect of initiation lags	1
Entry deterrence due to brand proliferation: Empirical evidence from the German interurban bus industry	1
Omitted budget constraint bias in discrete-choice demand models	1
Incentives for labour-augmenting innovations in vertical markets: The role of wage rate	1
Collusion in the US generic drug industry	1
Cheap Exclusion in Markets with Multiple Complements	1
Competitive targeted online advertising	1
Labor Market Power and Between-Firm Wage (In)Equality	1
Did the MillerCoors joint venture strengthen the craft beer revolution?	1
How resale price maintenance and loss leading affect upstream cartel stability: Anatomy of a coffee cartel	1
Imperfect competition with costly disposal	1
Cournot platform competition with mixed-homing	1
Broadband Internet access and health outcomes: Patient and provider responses in Medicare	1
Buffer joint ventures	1
The role of output reallocation and investment in coordinating environmental markets	1
Auctioneers sometimes prefer entry fees to extra bidders	1
Welfare effects of product certification under latent adverse selection	1
The value of transparency in dynamic contracting with entry	1