Volume 34 2025 Issue 2 Journal of Economics & Management Strategy – Journal of Economics & Management Strategy

Inference on noncooperative entry deterrence

Seiichiro Mizuta
This 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-Assouline
Environmental 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. Olson
The 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 Thompson
The 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 Quinn
We 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 Zaharieva
Empirical 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 Ukhaneva
Monopolists 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 Motchenkova
An 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. Tan
House 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.

On fraud and certification of green production

Carmen Arguedas, Esther Blanco
We present a novel model of fraud and certification in green production. We focus on settings where firms decide between a green or a standard version of a product together with an advertising strategy that can include fraud.

Dynamic competition for customer memberships

Cristian Chica, Julian Jimenez-Cardenas, Jorge Tamayo
This paper analyzes a two-period membership market with two symmetric firms charging a membership fee, allowing consumers to buy products or services at a given price.

Forward contracting and the endogenous activity of heterogeneous firms

Sébastien Mitraille, Henry Thille
Forward contracting in an -firm quantity-setting oligopoly with heterogeneous costs introduces the possibility that relatively efficient firms deter the activity of inefficient rivals by reducing their margins.

Vertical mergers without foreclosure

Alessandro S. Kadner-Graziano
The typical concern about vertical mergers is the foreclosure of downstream rivals. In a vertically related industry where downstream firms have a common supplier, margins can reveal whether upstream competition constrains that supplier.

Issue 2

Volume 34 JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS & MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
Summer 2025