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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Competition and Fan Substitution Between Professional Sports Leagues	21
The Timing of Technology Adoption in Network Industries	18
Recent Developments at the CMA: 2021–22	14
Diagnosing Anticompetitive Effects of Vertical Integration by Multiproduct Firms	11
Loving What You Get: The Price Effects of Consumer Self-Persuasion	9
General Editor’s Note: Antitrust and Regulatory Update	8
Internet Engagement in the Remote Work Era: Insights from High-Frequency Household-Level Data	8
A Transactions Cost Analysis of the Welfare and Output Effects of Rebates and Non-Linear Pricing	8
Public–Private Collusion	8
General Editor’s Note: Antitrust and Regulatory Update	8
Competition and Regulation of Mobile Money Platforms in Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Kenya and Uganda	7
The Biases in Applying Static Demand Models Under Dynamic Demand	7
Potential Competition and the 2023 Merger Guidelines	6
The Revenue Impact of Differential Seat Pricing and Competition in the Movie Theater Market	6
Does it Matter if Competition is “Fair” or “on the Merits”? An Application to Platform Self-Preferencing	5
Price-Directed Search, Product Differentiation and Competition	5
Incentive Regulation From the Inside: Resetting 12 RPI-X Price Caps in 1993–1995	5
Vertical Mergers in a Model of Upstream Monopoly and Incomplete Information	5
Does Intermunicipal Cooperation Affect Prices? An Economic Analysis of the French Drinking Water Sector	5
Pricing Strategies and Partial Privatization Policy	5
Price Regulation and Fraud—with Special Emphasis on Gasoline Retailing	5
Path Dependence as a Path to Consumer Surplus and Loyalty	4
Introduction	4
Recent Developments at the CMA: 2020–2021	4
Measuring the Power of Regulatory Regimes	4

Retail Markups and Discount-Store Entry	4
Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis: Theoretical Development and Empirical Evaluation	4
Getting Merger Guidelines Right	4
Deregulation, Entry, and Competition in Local Banking Markets	4
Big Bids and Bidder Behavior in Uniform Price Auctions: Evidence from Peer-to-Peer Loan Markets	3
Recent Developments at the CMA: 2023–24	3
Vertical Opportunism, Bargaining, and Share-Based Agreements	3
Location, Location, Quality:The Fixed Differentiation Principle	3
Food Origin Labeling and “Promoting Competition”	3
When Vertical is Horizontal: How Vertical Mergers Lead to Increases in “Effective Concentration”	3
General Editor’s Note: Antitrust and Regulatory Update	3
The 2023 Merger Guidelines and The Role of Economics	3
Spatial Procurement of Farm Products and the Supply of Processed Foods: Application to the Tomato Processing Industry	3
Endogenous Entry and Growth of Firms with Heterogeneous Firms	3
Reverse Privatization as a Reaction to the Competitive Environment: Evidence from Solid Waste Collection in Germany	3
Competition and Specialization in the VC Market: A Non-monotonic Relationship	3
Two-Period Duopolies with Forward Markets	3
Slot Divestitures and Price Competition at Reagan National and LaGuardia	3
Online Market Resilience to Economic Shocks: Evidence Based on Price Dispersion from the COVID-19 Outbreak in China	3
The Year in Review: Economics at the Antitrust Division, 2022–2023	2
How Does Downstream Firms’ Efficiency Affect Exclusive Supply Agreements?	2
Competition Makes Inspectors More Lenient: Evidence from the Motor Vehicle Inspection Market	2
Innovation Diffusion and Strategic Outside Option in a Bargaining Game	2
Cartel Leniency and Settlements: A Joint Perspective	2
Cournot Competition on the Hotelling Line Yields at Most Three Varieties	2
Presumptions in Vertical Mergers: The Role of Evidence	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
Bargaining Competition and Vertical Mergers: The Problem of Model Selection	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
Product Liability and Strategic Delegation: Endogenous Manager Incentives Promote Strict Liability	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
Economics at the FCC 2022–2023: Satellite Marketplace, Broadband Data Collection, Drive Testing, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, and Broadcast Station Ownership	2
On the Effects of Raised Rival’s Costs	2
Strategic Merger Approvals Under Incomplete Information	2
Introduction: The Industrial Organization of Food and Agriculture	2
Correction to: Is the Whole Greater than the Sum of Its Parts? Pricing Pressure Indices for Mergers of Vertically Integrated Firms	2
Copyright Protection in the Digital Single Market: Potential Consequences for Content Platform Competition	2
Does Aftermarket Monopolization Facilitate Upstream Collusion?	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
Imperfect Competition as a Result of Unawareness	2
Girls’ Night In? Effects of the Kenyan COVID-19 Lockdown on Web Browsing	2
Subsidies, Speed and Switching? Impacts of an Internet Subsidy in Colombia	2
Price Competition in a Vertizontally Differentiated Duopoly	2
Regulatory Learning in the Face of Net Zero Climate Policy: The Case of the UK	2
Unilateral Effects of Mergers that Enhance Product Quality	1
Cartel Damages Claims, Passing-On, and Passing-Back	1

Hotelling’s Model with Firms Located Close to Each Other	1
Incentive Regulation: Expectations, Surprises, and the Road Forward	1
The Effects of Vertical Integration in the Korea Movie Industry: Efficiency Versus Exclusion	1
Industry Compliance Costs Under the Renewable Fuel Standard: Evidence from Compliance Credits	1
Introduction to the RIO Special Issue on the Telecommunications Industry	1
Dynamic Competition, Price Frictions and Institution Building: the CMA in 2022–2023	1
Unprofitable Cartels: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in the UK	1
Economics at the FTC: Spatial Demand, Veterinary Hospital Mergers, Rulemaking, and Noncompete Agreements	1
Separating Vertical from Horizontal Differentiation	1
Screening Through Investment: Evidence from the Chinese Automobile Industry	1
Product Market Cooperation, Foreign Direct Investment and Consumer Welfare	1
Wholesale Pricing with Asymmetric Information About the Quality of a Private Label	1
Hybrid Marketplaces with Free Entry of Sellers	1
R&D Concentration in Soybean and Cotton Markets	1
The Spirit Effect: Ultra-Low Cost Carriers and Fare Dispersion in the U.S. Airline Industry	1
Protecting Small-Scale Enterprises: Evidence from the Korean Ready-Mixed Concrete Industry	1
Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2020/2021	1
Before Privatization There was Its Impact: Sugar Factories in Turkey	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
Vertical Merger Policy: Special Considerations in Regulated Industries	1
The Economics of Advice	1
Economics at the FCC 2021–22: 5G Spectrum Auctions, Affordable Connectivity, Broadband Data Collection, and Merger Review	1
Click versus Tap: The Substitution Effects of Smartphones on Computers	1
Characteristics of Prosecuted Cartels and Cartel Enforcement in South Africa	1
Ringleader Discrimination in Leniency Policies	1
Targeted Value-Enhancing Advertising and Price Competition	1
Competitive Price Discrimination in Asymmetric Oligopoly	1
Renegotiations and Renewals of Public Contracts	1
The Coase Conjecture When the Monopolist and Customers have Different Discount Rates	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