Industrial Organization

In economics, industrial organization is a field that builds on the theory of the firm by examining the structure of (and, therefore, the boundaries between) firms and markets. Industrial organization adds real-world complications to the perfectly competitive model, complications such as transaction costs, limited information, and barriers to entry of new firms that may be associated with imperfect competition. It analyzes determinants of firm and market organization and behavior on a continuum between competition and monopoly, including from government actions. There are different approaches to the subject. One approach is descriptive in providing an overview of industrial organization, such as …

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NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 14 March 2024 English

We show that firms' nominal required returns to capital (i.e., their discount rates) are sticky with respect to expected inflation. Such nominally sticky discount rates imply that increases in expected …


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 14 March 2024 English

We study the spatial expansion of banks in response to banking deregulation in the 1980s and 90s. During this period, large banks expanded rapidly, mostly by adding new branches in …


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 14 March 2024 English

This paper estimates the effect of a temporary and large (21 p.p.) value-added tax (VAT) cut along with anti-profiteering measures on food necessities during a period of high inflation in …

cigarette industry. International Journal of Industrial Organization 19(6). 885–908. DellaVigna, Stefano & Matthew


IFS: Institute for Fiscal Studies · 14 March 2024 English

This study was funded by the Department for International Development in the UK Government; the Tata Trusts through the Tata Centre for Development at the University of Chicago; the MacLean …

Report. Handel, B. R. and K. Ho (2021). Industrial organization of health care markets. Technical report


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 14 March 2024 English

We study the effect of price caps on the provision of costly effort by pharmaceutical firms using variation in drug discounts generated by a price regulation program that allows eligible …

Pharmaceutical Innovation,” Review of Industrial Organization, 2007, 31 (3), 221–236. Larkin, Ian, Desmond pharmaceutical industry,” International Journal of Industrial Organization, October 2000, 18 (7), 1085–1104. Morton drug market,” International Journal of Industrial Organization, July 2008, 26 (4), 930–948. Sacarny, Adam


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 14 March 2024 English

The U.S. regulation of high-voltage transmission is highly complex and, as a result, generally poorly understood. The complexity is created by separate, but overlapping, jurisdictional authorities of the U.S. federal …


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 14 March 2024 English

This study examines “tunneling” practices through which health care providers covertly extract profit by making inflated payments for goods and services to commonly-owned related parties. While incentives to tunnel exist …


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 14 March 2024 English

The COVID-19 pandemic initiated a trend in “work-from-home (WFH),” but workers need reliable and fast internet connections (e.g., broadband) to work from home. Yet, as of January 2020, 18 states …


ECCP: European Cluster Collaboration Platform · 11 March 2024 English

16 Grant Agreement n° 101074564 The content of this document represents the views of the author only and is his/her sole responsibility; it cannot be considered to reflect the views …

Consulting: Innovation management, digital and industrial Organization typology transformation, industrial performance


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 7 March 2024 English

We show that supply networks are inefficiently, and insufficiently, resilient. Upstream firms can expand their production capacity to hedge against supply and demand shocks. But the social benefits of such …


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