This chapter examines recent developments in economic research relating to antitrust,
paying specific attention to research in the areas of collusion and merger enforcement …

Regulators often rely on regulated entities to self-monitor compliance, potentially creating
strategic incentives for endogenous monitoring. This paper builds a framework to detect …

A host of regulations should protect fish, a common-pool resource, from overexploitation, but
detecting violations of these regulations is challenging, both at sea and in port. We present a …

This paper uses the 2015 Volkswagen emissions scandal as a natural experiment to provide
evidence that collective reputation externalities matter for firms. We find that the Volkswagen …

Should agencies confine their role to their main duty or should they embrace new and
desirable societal objectives? This article first discusses two emblematic examples of …

This paper uses the 2015 Volkswagen (VW) emissions scandal as a natural experiment to
provide evidence that collective reputation externalities are economically significant. Using a …

This chapter discusses contributions that industrial organization economists have made to
our understanding of energy markets and environmental regulation. We emphasize the …

We evaluate the efficiency of dynamic linked environmental regulation. Linked regulation
allows inspectors who uncover violations at one plant to increase future enforcement at …

Persistent air-pollution problems have led authorities in many cities around the world to
impose limits on car use by means of vintage-specific restrictions or low-emission zones …

This paper examines the welfare consequences of a trade association in an exporting
country on consumers in destination countries. We estimate a structural model of the …