Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade

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/10.100…

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/10.100…

#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/10.100…

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/10.100…

🗒️Nuevo artículo de nuestros compañeros Leandro Zipitría (@Udelaruy) y Fernando Borraz (@BancoCentral_Uy) en @JournalIndComTr “Borders and Price Convergence: The Role of Local Product” 👉link.springer.com/article/10.100… Felicitaciones y excelente trabajo👏

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/10.100…

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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/10.100…

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/10.100…

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/10.100…

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/10.100…