OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Industrial Organization is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Platform-enabled information disclosure	28
Renewable support and strategic pricing in electricity markets	23
Implicit trade‐offs in replacement rates: Consumer preferences for firms, intermediaries and annuity attributes	22
The effect of design protection on price and price dispersion: Evidence from automotive spare parts	21
Price leadership with promotions	18
The pricing of ancillary goods when selling on a platform	18
Open price contracts, locked-in buyers, and opportunism	18
Bridging the digital divide in the US	18
Competitive targeted online advertising	17
Supply chain disruptions and sourcing strategies	16
Micro-mechanisms behind declining labor shares: Rising market power and changing modes of production	16
Self-preferencing and foreclosure in digital markets: Theories of harm for abuse cases	15
Siting and operating incentives in electrical networks: A study of mispricing in zonal markets	14
Surfing incognito: Welfare effects of anonymous shopping	13
Algorithmic collusion with imperfect monitoring	12
Competition with exclusive contracts in vertically related markets: An equilibrium non-existence result	12
Market power, randomization and regulation	12
Cartel birth and death dynamics: Empirical evidence	11
Contracts as a barrier to entry: Impact of Buyer’s asymmetric information and bargaining power	11
Incentives for pharmaceutical innovation: What’s working, what’s lacking	11
VAT pass-through and competition: Evidence from the Greek islands	11
Oligopoly under incomplete information: On the welfare effects of price discrimination	11
Pass-through and tax incidence in differentiated product markets	10
Editorial Board	10
Optimal equity split under unobservable investments	10

The energy transition: An industrial economics perspective	10
Inertia in the U.S. federal crop insurance market	10
Optimal use of patents and trade secrets for complex innovations	10
Personalized content, engagement, and monetization in a mobile puzzle game	10
Platform competition in the tablet PC market: The effect of application quality	10
Editorial Board	9
Unlevel playing field? Machine learning meets state aid regulation	9
Editorial Board	9
Patent protection for complex technologies	8
Underpromise and overdeliver? - Online product reviews and firm pricing	8
Editorial Board	8
Editorial Board	7
Export market entry of Chinese SMEs: The role of scale economies and outstanding trade credit	7
Patent hold-out and licensing frictions: Evidence from litigation of standard essential patents	7
Identification of English auctions when losing entrants are not observed	7
The competitive effects of declining entry costs over time: Evidence from the static random access memory market	7
Nonlinear pricing in multidimensional context: An empirical analysis of energy consumption	6
A price leadership model for merger analysis	6
Editorial Board	6
Pricing, advertising, and endogenous consideration of an “insistent” product	6
Cournot platform competition with mixed-homing	6
Complementary bidding and cartel detection: Evidence from Nordic asphalt markets	6
Policy orientations and technology choices in standards wars	6
How resale price maintenance and loss leading affect upstream cartel stability: Anatomy of a coffee cartel	6
Missing data and the effects of market deregulation: Evidence from Chinese coal power	6
Editorial Board	6
Strategic information disclosure in vertical markets	6
Bidding with budgets: Data-driven bid algorithms in digital advertising	5
When can auctions maximize post-auction welfare?	5
Regulating online search in the EU: From the android case to the digital markets act and digital services act	5
Demand for in-app purchases in mobile apps—A difference-in-difference approach	5
Optimal auctions with sequential arrival: Allowing for re-auction and resale	5
Streaming Stimulates the Live Concert Industry: Evidence from YouTube	5
Bargaining on price on behalf of price-insensitive downstream consumers	5
The incidence of VAT reforms in electricity markets: Evidence from Belgium	5
Industrial organization and The Rise of Market Power	5
Bank-platform competition in the credit market	4
Optimal vaccine subsidies for endemic diseases	4
Which policies for vaccine innovation and delivery in Europe?	4
Simulating media platform mergers	4
Outsourcing horizontally differentiated tasks under asymmetric information	4
How does COVID-19 affect intertemporal price discrimination and price dispersion? Evidence from the airline industry	4
Umbrella pricing and cartel size	4
Buyer power and exclusion: A progress report	4
Editorial Board	4
Should competition monopolise merger policy?	4
Innovation incentives in technical standards	3
The impact of cartel dissolution on prices: Evidence from the air cargo cartel	3
Entry regulations with implementation lag: Evidence from convenience store markets in Korea	3
Evaluating the impact of price caps - Evidence from the European roam-like-at-home regulation	3

The home bias in procurement. Cross-border procurement of medical supplies during the Covid-19 pandemic.	3
Consequences of model choice in predicting horizontal merger effects	3
Digital business models and quality investment	3
Deceptive advertising, regulation and naive consumers	3
Can nonprofit target-setting mechanisms drive for-profit compliance? Evidence from sodium content	3
Consumer search and income inequality	3
Did the MillerCoors joint venture strengthen the craft beer revolution?	3
Collusion in capacity under irreversible investment	3
Behavior-based personalized pricing: When firms can share customer information	3
Merger of complements: Empirical evidence from the eyewear industry	3
Profit Sharing and Incentives	3
Quantifying the benefits of the introduction of the hybrid electric vehicle	3
Price and quantity discovery without commitment	3
From conference submission to publication and citations: Evidence from the EARIE conference	3
A simple method to estimate discrete-type random coefficients logit models	2
Antibacterial resistance and the cost of affecting demand: The case of UK antibiotics	2
Switching costs in the US seed industry: Technology adoption and welfare impacts	2
Shirking with good reputation? Evidence from hotel industry	2
Estimating factor price markdowns using production models	2
Entry deterrence due to brand proliferation: Empirical evidence from the German interurban bus industry	2
Passing through the supply chain: Implications for market power	2
The equilibrium effects of environmental regulation on heterogeneous competing firms: Theory and evidence from Chinese manufacturing	2
Do patents enable disclosure? Evidence from the invention secrecy act	2
Unobserved heterogeneity and adjustment to behavioral bias: The case of used cars	2
Ultra-fast broadband access and productivity: Evidence from Italian firms	2
Welfare effects of product certification under latent adverse selection	2
Flavorants and addiction: An empirical analysis of cigarette bans and taxation	2
M&A advisory and the merger review process	2
Who versus when: Designing decision processes in organizations	2
Editorial Board	2
Why do some new products fail? Evidence from the entry and exit of Vanilla Coke	2
Price authority and information sharing with competing supply chains	2
Editorial Board	2
Omitted budget constraint bias in discrete-choice demand models	2
Demand forecasting, signal precision, and collusion with hidden actions	2
Editorial Board	2
Wage councils, product markups and wage markdowns: Evidence from Uruguay	2
Artificial intelligence and competition policy	2
Selling cross-border in online markets: The impact of the ban on geoblocking strategies	2
Risk aversion and auction design: Theoretical and empirical evidence	2
Product innovation with vertical differentiation: Is a monopolist's incentive weaker?	2
Telemedicine competition, pricing, and technology adoption: Evidence from talk therapists	2
Drivers of public procurement prices: Evidence from pharmaceutical markets	2
The effect of online shopping channels on brand choice, product exploration and price elasticities	2
Complex pricing and consumer-side attention	2
Competition after mergers near review thresholds	2
Performance bundling in multi-dimensional competitions	2
Partial secrecy in vertical contracting	2
Pricing distortions in multi-sided platforms	2
The role of public external knowledge for firm innovativeness	2
R&D competition and the direction of innovation	2