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…

Online: Digital Platform Mergers and Innovation: Evidence from the Cloud Computing Market by Thanh Doan (@Ofcom) & Franco Mariuzzo (@ccp_uea) link.springer.com/article/10…

The Cournot–Bertrand Profit Differential: A Reversal Result in a Differentiated #Duopoly with Unions’ Fairness Concerns by Domenico Buccella (@KozminskiUni) & Luciano Fanti & Luca Gori (both @Unipisa) link.springer.com/article/10…

What Can Make Foreign Direct Investment #FDI Work? Investors' Motivation, Country Context and Industry Context All Play Their Roles, show Susan Akinwalere & Kirk Chang @SBL_UEL @UEL_News link.springer.com/article/10…

Must read: @tomaso_duso (@DIW_Berlin, @Monopolkom) & @peitz_martin (@MaCCIcomp) explain how we can align #CompetitionPolicy and #IndustrialPolicy in the EU and argue for a competition-oriented approach to industrial policy. link.springer.com/article/10…

#HHI-based Guidelines and Inefficient #Merger Approvals by Felix Munoz-Garcia, @Ana_Espinola (both @WSUPullman) & @drdenarii (@WabashCollege): Easy-to-apply HHI criteria work when efficiencies are minor, market share small, and cost convexities low. link.springer.com/article/10…

Online: Determinants of Market Power In European Industries. Dilsuz Nurmukhanmatova (@UniSiegen) & @TomKopp8 find a significant correlation b/w market concentration and firms’ markups, with substantial heterogeneity across sectors however. link.springer.com/article/10…

Borders and Price Convergence: The Role of Local Products by Fernando Borraz (@BancoCentral_Uy) & Leandro Zipitría (@Udelaruy) show that not accounting for local products can lead to biased estimates of border effects in standard empirical designs. link.springer.com/article/10…

Now online: The Main Determinants of Global Portfolio Flows Dynamics by Nataliia Osina (@AngliaRuskin) who investigates global portfolio flows dynamics to a global (push) and domestic (pull) determinants for 43 countries from Q1 2005 to Q4 2020 link.springer.com/article/10…

Agglomeration and Export Survival amid Institutional Challenges: Evidence from Malawi using a Shared-Frailty Survival Analysis, by Tadala Banda & @FChigaru (both @unima_official) link.springer.com/article/10…

Multi-Market Contact (MMC) in International Trade: Evidence from U.S. Battery Exporters: When competitors have MMC, they are more likely to collude to avoid cross-market retaliation. For US battery exporters MMC indeed has an upward export price effect. link.springer.com/article/10…

Local Credit Union Competition and Bank Deposit Rates: The Role of Covid-19 by Robert M. Feinberg (@AmericanU) who reasons that, in the US, the market for deposits appears to have become a national one, in which local market structures no longer matter. link.springer.com/article/10…

Advertising, Competition, and Local Craft Beer Markets #Beeronomics. Sriparna Goswami & Donghyuk Kim @IowaStateU document empirical patterns that craft breweries advertise less and respond less sensitively to rival advertising in more competitive areas.link.springer.com/article/10…

Protecting Weak Suppliers in Endogenous Vertical Structure - why legal measures designed to protect suppliers with weak bargaining power, such as provisions against the abuse of superior bargaining power may be useful by Ryosuke Tsuritani @NU_kouhou link.springer.com/article/10…