Industrial Organization: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Dear Colleagues,

To study industrial organization is to study one of the core elements of economics: markets. In turn, game theory has established itself as the language of contemporary industrial organization. Over the last 40 years, we have witnessed an explosion of theoretical research that has established the game-theoretic foundations for firm behavior.

More recently, experimental methods have been used by economists to test the predictions of these models. Starting with tests of equilibrium concepts, the attention of experimental work expanded to testing assumptions concerning players’ preferences and bounded rationality. Out of the behavioral economics revolution, a new wave of theoretical models emerged that incorporate boundedly rational consumers and firms.

This Special Issue welcomes the submission of papers on theoretical or experimental industrial organization. Papers may focus on any topic within industrial organization, such as interfirm competition (price, quantity or nonprice competition); cartel formation; two-sided platforms; innovation; and R&D races, to highlight but a few. We also welcome papers that address issues pertaining to consumer behavior, such as information asymmetries, search costs and price dispersion, among others. Finally, we welcome papers on behavioral industrial organization that address the effect of boundedly rational consumers on market outcomes.

Prof. Dr. Todd R. Kaplan
Dr. Miguel A. Fonseca
Guest Editors

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• cartels
• competition
• two-sided markets
• collusion
• price discrimination
• innovation
• behavioral industrial organization