OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Review 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Competition and Fan Substitution Between Professional Sports Leagues	21
The Timing of Technology Adoption in Network Industries	18
Diagnosing Anticompetitive Effects of Vertical Integration by Multiproduct Firms	13
Recent Developments at the CMA: 2021–22	11
A Transactions Cost Analysis of the Welfare and Output Effects of Rebates and Non-Linear Pricing	8
Loving What You Get: The Price Effects of Consumer Self-Persuasion	8
General Editor’s Note: Antitrust and Regulatory Update	8
Internet Engagement in the Remote Work Era: Insights from High-Frequency Household-Level Data	8
Optimal Incentives for Patent Challenges in the Pharmaceutical Industry	7
Public–Private Collusion	7
General Editor’s Note: Antitrust and Regulatory Update	7
The Revenue Impact of Differential Seat Pricing and Competition in the Movie Theater Market	6
Competition and Regulation of Mobile Money Platforms in Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Kenya and Uganda	6
The Biases in Applying Static Demand Models Under Dynamic Demand	6
Vertical Mergers in a Model of Upstream Monopoly and Incomplete Information	5
Does it Matter if Competition is “Fair” or “on the Merits”? An Application to Platform Self-Preferencing	5
Pricing Strategies and Partial Privatization Policy	5
Potential Competition and the 2023 Merger Guidelines	5
Path Dependence as a Path to Consumer Surplus and Loyalty	4
Introduction	4
Incentive Regulation From the Inside: Resetting 12 RPI-X Price Caps in 1993–1995	4
Getting Merger Guidelines Right	4
Measuring the Power of Regulatory Regimes	4
Price-Directed Search, Product Differentiation and Competition	4
Price Regulation and Fraud—with Special Emphasis on Gasoline Retailing	4

Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis: Theoretical Development and Empirical Evaluation	4
Does Intermunicipal Cooperation Affect Prices? An Economic Analysis of the French Drinking Water Sector	4
When Vertical is Horizontal: How Vertical Mergers Lead to Increases in “Effective Concentration”	3
Recent Developments at the CMA: 2020–2021	3
Big Bids and Bidder Behavior in Uniform Price Auctions: Evidence from Peer-to-Peer Loan Markets	3
Two-Period Duopolies with Forward Markets	3
Competition and Specialization in the VC Market: A Non-monotonic Relationship	3
Recent Developments at the CMA: 2023–24	3
Reverse Privatization as a Reaction to the Competitive Environment: Evidence from Solid Waste Collection in Germany	3
General Editor’s Note: Antitrust and Regulatory Update	3
Vertical Opportunism, Bargaining, and Share-Based Agreements	3
Location, Location, Quality:The Fixed Differentiation Principle	3
Retail Markups and Discount-Store Entry	3
The 2023 Merger Guidelines and The Role of Economics	3
Deregulation, Entry, and Competition in Local Banking Markets	3
Online Market Resilience to Economic Shocks: Evidence Based on Price Dispersion from the COVID-19 Outbreak in China	3
Spatial Procurement of Farm Products and the Supply of Processed Foods: Application to the Tomato Processing Industry	3
On the Effects of Raised Rival’s Costs	2
The Year in Review: Economics at the Antitrust Division, 2022–2023	2
Introduction: The Industrial Organization of Food and Agriculture	2
Competition Makes Inspectors More Lenient: Evidence from the Motor Vehicle Inspection Market	2
How Does Downstream Firms’ Efficiency Affect Exclusive Supply Agreements?	2
The Price Effects of Competition from Parallel Imports and Therapeutic Alternatives: Using Dynamic Models to Estimate the Causal Effect on the Extensive and Intensive Margins	2
Preserving the Institutional Value of the FTC in the Digital Era	2
Economics at the FTC: Estimating Harm from Deception and Analyzing Mergers	2
Slot Divestitures and Price Competition at Reagan National and LaGuardia	2
Product Liability and Strategic Delegation: Endogenous Manager Incentives Promote Strict Liability	2
Endogenous Entry and Growth of Firms with Heterogeneous Firms	2
Product-Line Decisions and Rapid Turnover in Movie Markets	2
Marker Systems in Leniency Policies	2
Who Blows the Whistle on Cartels? Finding the Leniency Applicant at the European Commission	2
Non-competition Goals and Their Impact on South African Merger Control: An Empirical Analysis	2
Cartel Leniency and Settlements: A Joint Perspective	2
Imperfect Competition as a Result of Unawareness	2
Economics at the FCC 2022–2023: Satellite Marketplace, Broadband Data Collection, Drive Testing, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, and Broadcast Station Ownership	2
Price Competition in a Vertizontally Differentiated Duopoly	2
Cournot Competition on the Hotelling Line Yields at Most Three Varieties	2
Strategic Merger Approvals Under Incomplete Information	2
Correction to: Is the Whole Greater than the Sum of Its Parts? Pricing Pressure Indices for Mergers of Vertically Integrated Firms	2
Does Aftermarket Monopolization Facilitate Upstream Collusion?	2
Copyright Protection in the Digital Single Market: Potential Consequences for Content Platform Competition	2
Bargaining Competition and Vertical Mergers: The Problem of Model Selection	2
Subsidies, Speed and Switching? Impacts of an Internet Subsidy in Colombia	2
Economics at the FCC 2023–24: Thirty Years of Spectrum Auctions, Open Internet Safeguards, Deployment of Advanced Telecommunications Capability, and Advancing Rural 5G Coverage	2
Presumptions in Vertical Mergers: The Role of Evidence	2
Food Origin Labeling and “Promoting Competition”	2
Innovation Diffusion and Strategic Outside Option in a Bargaining Game	2
General Editor’s Note: Antitrust and Regulatory Update	1
Economics at the FCC 2021–22: 5G Spectrum Auctions, Affordable Connectivity, Broadband Data Collection, and Merger Review	1
Economics at the FTC: Spatial Demand, Veterinary Hospital Mergers, Rulemaking, and Noncompete Agreements	1

Renegotiations and Renewals of Public Contracts	1
Wholesale Pricing with Asymmetric Information About the Quality of a Private Label	1
The Spirit Effect: Ultra-Low Cost Carriers and Fare Dispersion in the U.S. Airline Industry	1
Incentive Regulation: Expectations, Surprises, and the Road Forward	1
Industry Compliance Costs Under the Renewable Fuel Standard: Evidence from Compliance Credits	1
Dynamic Competition, Price Frictions and Institution Building: the CMA in 2022–2023	1
Before Privatization There was Its Impact: Sugar Factories in Turkey	1
Economics at the FTC: Non-Horizontal Mergers, the CARS Rule, and the Non-Compete Rule	1
Kenyan Competition Policy After Ten Years of the Competition Act: A Progress Report	1
Separating Vertical from Horizontal Differentiation	1
Evaluating the Evidence on Vertical Mergers	1
Screening Through Investment: Evidence from the Chinese Automobile Industry	1
Characteristics of Prosecuted Cartels and Cartel Enforcement in South Africa	1
Click versus Tap: The Substitution Effects of Smartphones on Computers	1
Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2020/2021	1
R&D Concentration in Soybean and Cotton Markets	1
Protecting Small-Scale Enterprises: Evidence from the Korean Ready-Mixed Concrete Industry	1
Regulatory Learning in the Face of Net Zero Climate Policy: The Case of the UK	1
Unprofitable Cartels: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in the UK	1
Unilateral Effects of Mergers that Enhance Product Quality	1
Product Market Cooperation, Foreign Direct Investment and Consumer Welfare	1
Hybrid Marketplaces with Free Entry of Sellers	1
Vertical Merger Policy: Special Considerations in Regulated Industries	1
Hotelling’s Model with Firms Located Close to Each Other	1
The Economics of Advice	1
The Effects of Vertical Integration in the Korea Movie Industry: Efficiency Versus Exclusion	1
Cartel Damages Claims, Passing-On, and Passing-Back	1
Targeted Value-Enhancing Advertising and Price Competition	1
Ringleader Discrimination in Leniency Policies	1
Competitive Price Discrimination in Asymmetric Oligopoly	1
The Coase Conjecture When the Monopolist and Customers have Different Discount Rates	1
The Assessment of Exclusive Contracts: The Competition Case Against Computicket in South Africa	1
Is Amnesty Plus More Successful in Fighting Multimarket Cartels? An Exploratory Analysis	1