Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade

Termination Rate Regulation and Retail Outcomes: Pass-Through and Competition in Botswana’s Mobile Market. Onkokame Mothobi @RIAnetwork @UBBotswana shows that termination rate regulation can improve consumer welfare w/o major adverse retail market effects link.springer.com/article/10…

Trade Frauds, Tariff Evasion and Deep Regional Trade Agreements by Xi Tian, Chenchen Cai & Yifei Li who examine the significant role of regional trade agreements in addressing and mitigating trade fraud. link.springer.com/article/10…

Wage Bargaining and Capital Accumulation: A Dynamic Version of the Monopoly Union Model by Marco Guerrazzi @UniGenova link.springer.com/article/10…

Out now: The State as a Common Shareholder: Common Ownership, Consumer Surplus, and Competition by Constantin Colonescu @MacEwanU & Subhadip Ghosh @triffoschool link.springer.com/article/10…

Out now: Emanuel Namaiwa Barke @fc_univ & Khaireddine Jebsi @Univ_of_sousse show that Corporate Social Responsibility can act as a strategic differentiation device and may lead to higher profits with a congestion externality. link.springer.com/article/10…

"Stability in Institutional Holdings and R&D: The Study of Indian Companies" by Azad Ahmad Wani @UnivofKashmir who shows that an increase in stability of institutional equity positions leads to increase in firms’ R&D. link.springer.com/article/10…

Marginal Relative Profitability (MRP): A new firm-level competition measure for banks by Michiel van Leuvensteijn, Ivan Huljak & Gabe de Bondt (@ecb) who extend the Boone indicator of market-level competition by a new firm-level competition measure, MRP link.springer.com/article/10…

Product Quality Choices of Entrant Firms with Quality-dependent Costs: Akio Kawasaki @OITAuniversity, Takao Ohkawa @RitsumeikanU & Makoto Okamura @HiroshimaUnivEn analyze how the quality elasticity of marginal cost affects firms' product-quality choices. link.springer.com/article/10…

Does #IndustrialPolicy Drive Economic Development? A Synthetic Control Assessment of South Korea. @akkemik, @myulek (@ostimteknikuniv) & Taseer Salahuddin (@gscwuofficial) find that industrial policy was highly effective. link.springer.com/article/10…

Online: Privatizing by Merger: Domestic versus Foreign Partners by J. Alejandro Gelves (@WMSchoolofBiz) & John S. Heywood (@UWM, @WIeconomics) who explore partial privatization by merger of an inefficient public leader link.springer.com/article/10…