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Multi-market contact, tacit collusion, and decentralized managerial decision-making 多市场接触、默契勾结和分散管理决策
IF 1.7 3区 经济学
International Journal of Industrial Organization Pub Date : 2024-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2024.103100
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First-party selling and self-preferencing 第一方销售和自我推荐
IF 1.7 3区 经济学
International Journal of Industrial Organization Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2024.103098
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Capacity, volume flexibility, and costs 容量、容量灵活性和成本
IF 1.7 3区 经济学
International Journal of Industrial Organization Pub Date : 2024-08-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2024.103096
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Multimarket contact and price discrimination 多市场接触和价格歧视
IF 1.7 3区 经济学
International Journal of Industrial Organization Pub Date : 2024-07-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2024.103089
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Shirking with good reputation? Evidence from hotel industry 用良好声誉推卸责任？酒店业的证据
IF 1.7 3区 经济学
International Journal of Industrial Organization Pub Date : 2024-07-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2024.103088
Fang-Chang Kuo
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Naked exclusion with heterogeneous buyers 异质买家的裸排他性
IF 1.7 3区 经济学
International Journal of Industrial Organization Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2024.103084
Ying Chen , Jan Zápal
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Antibacterial resistance and the cost of affecting demand: The case of UK antibiotics 抗菌药耐药性和影响需求的成本：英国抗生素案例
IF 1.7 3区 经济学
International Journal of Industrial Organization Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2024.103082
Farasat A.S. Bokhari , Franco Mariuzzo , Weijie Yan
{"title":"Antibacterial resistance and the cost of affecting demand: The case of UK antibiotics","authors":"Farasat A.S. Bokhari ,&nbsp;Franco Mariuzzo ,&nbsp;Weijie Yan","doi":"10.1016/j.ijindorg.2024.103082","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijindorg.2024.103082","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Consumption of broad-spectrum antibiotics is associated with rising antimicrobial resistance (AMR) levels. The use of broad-spectrum drugs, particularly of cephalosporins, quinolones, and co-amoxiclav contributes the most to the rise in AMR. We use aggregate sales data on antibiotics from the UK to estimate structural demand models and reveal drug substitution patterns. We then simulate alternative tax schemes to evaluate the effectiveness of shifting demand from broad- to narrow-spectrum drugs. Our estimates suggest that these policies can be highly effective in demand management and come at a relatively low cost regarding changes in consumer and producer surplus.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48127,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Industrial Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167718724000377/pdfft?md5=2de0a2ea491692c41128c112c66fb8db&pid=1-s2.0-S0167718724000377-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141411531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The welfare effects of input price discrimination revisited 再论投入品价格歧视的福利效应
IF 1.7 3区 经济学
International Journal of Industrial Organization Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2024.103083
Youping Li , Jianhu Zhang
{"title":"The welfare effects of input price discrimination revisited","authors":"Youping Li ,&nbsp;Jianhu Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.ijindorg.2024.103083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijindorg.2024.103083","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper revisits the welfare effects of input price discrimination in the canonical model in which an upstream monopolist, under linear pricing, sells an intermediate good to downstream Cournot competitors with different marginal costs. By leveling the downstream players, input price discrimination may have a positive output effect, with the magnitude depending on the convexity of final market demand and its rate of change. When demand is linear, concave, or convex with limited and nonincreasing convexity, welfare is reduced compared with uniform pricing. Instead, when there is sufficient and nondecreasing convexity—often observed in constant elasticity demand—price discrimination increases total welfare.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48127,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Industrial Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141483705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Robots and the rise of European superstar firms 机器人与欧洲超级明星企业的崛起
IF 1.7 3区 经济学
International Journal of Industrial Organization Pub Date : 2024-06-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2024.103085
Joel Stiebale, Jens Suedekum, Nicole Woessner
{"title":"Robots and the rise of European superstar firms","authors":"Joel Stiebale,&nbsp;Jens Suedekum,&nbsp;Nicole Woessner","doi":"10.1016/j.ijindorg.2024.103085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijindorg.2024.103085","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We study how a recent digital automation technology—industrial robots—is associated with the distribution of sales, productivity, markups, and profits within industries. Our empirical analysis combines data on the industry-level stock of industrial robots with firms' balance sheet data for six European countries from 2004 to 2013. We find that industries with high robot exposure are characterized by dis-proportional increases in productivity in those firms that are already most productive to begin with. Those firms are able to increase their markups and overall profits, while less profitable firms within the same industry, country and year tend to see declining markups and profits. We also find that variation in robot exposure across industries is correlated with declining labor income shares, mainly through adjustments within firms that are initially large, productive and have low labor cost-to -sales ratios. In sum, our paper suggests that European manufacturing industries with higher robot adoption rates experience a stronger emergence of <em>superstar firms</em> and more pronounced shifts of the functional income distribution away from wages and towards profits.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48127,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Industrial Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167718724000407/pdfft?md5=3e2d998e375f55c605e5165667371176&pid=1-s2.0-S0167718724000407-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141542941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Performance bundling in multi-dimensional competitions 多维竞赛中的性能捆绑
IF 1.5 3区 经济学
International Journal of Industrial Organization Pub Date : 2024-05-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2024.103073
Jingfeng Lu , Bo Shen , Zhewei Wang
{"title":"Performance bundling in multi-dimensional competitions","authors":"Jingfeng Lu ,&nbsp;Bo Shen ,&nbsp;Zhewei Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.ijindorg.2024.103073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijindorg.2024.103073","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, we investigate circumstances in which performance bundling can be used as an effective instrument to foster effort supply in multi-dimensional competitions between two (possibly asymmetric) players. We find that besides a beneficial cost-saving effect that is diminishing with the asymmetry across players, performance bundling can cause a counterproductive unbalancing effect, which intensifies with this asymmetry. Thus, performance bundling (pure or partial) is desirable only if the players are sufficiently symmetric. Otherwise, a set of separate contests is optimal. Our model provides a new perspective for analyzing incentive schemes in contest environments that involve competitions in multiple dimensions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48127,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Industrial Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140947726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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