Joan Farre-Mensa

Qihong Liu

Inference on noncooperative entry deterrence

Seiichiro MizutaThis study empirically investigates strategic entry-deterrence behavior under oligopolistic competition.

Information campaigns and ecolabels by environmental NGOs: Effective strategies to eliminate environmentally harmful components?

Dorothée Brécard, Mireille Chiroleu-AssoulineEnvironmental nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are increasingly using strategies to encourage firms to eliminate product components (e.g., palm oil) that are harmful to the environment (e.g., rainforests) or to replace them with NGO-certified sustainable components.

Reassessing the impact of health IT: Hidden costs and consequences of vendor heterogeneity

Jianjing Lin, Mary K. OlsonThe government has invested more than $24.8 billion to incentivize the adoption of health information technology in hospitals; however, there is little evidence showing that these investments produced the expected efficiencies, such as cost savings and improved quality of care.

Information technology adoption and the growth of nonemployer businesses

Younjun Kim, Eric ThompsonThe growth of nonemployer businesses as a share of the working-age population has been little studied relative to the decline of employer business rate in the United States.

Content moderation and advertising in social media platforms

Leonardo Madio, Martin QuinnWe study the incentive of an ad-funded social media platform to curb the presence of unsafe content that entails reputational risk to advertisers.

Social networks, promotions, and the glass-ceiling effect

Michael Neugart, Anna ZaharievaEmpirical studies show that women have lower chances of reaching top management positions, known as the glass-ceiling effect.

Double marginalization in the pricing of complements: The case of US freight railroads

Alexei Alexandrov, Russell Pittman, Olga UkhanevaMonopolists selling complementary products charge a higher price in a static equilibrium than a single (multiproduct) monopolist would, reducing both the industry profits and consumer surplus.

Start-up acquisitions, strategic R&D, and the entrant’s and incumbent’s direction of innovation

Esmée S. R. Dijk, José L. Moraga-González, Evgenia MotchenkovaAn entrant and an incumbent allocate their research funds across a rival and a non-rival market.

An evaluation of legislation designed to improve airline pilots’ safety and performance

Nicholas G. Rupp, Kerry M. TanHouse of representatives (H.R.) 5900, which was passed by Congress in July 2010, legislated more restrictive pilot rest requirements and increased the number of pilot training hours required to obtain an airline transport pilot license.
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