Industrial Organization and Corporate Finance (2013)

In the wake of the financial crisis, increased attention in economics research has been focused on how financial markets affect the global real economy. While researchers have made great progress, many questions still remain. In particular, we have a rather limited understanding of how ownership and financing forms interact with competition, industry and tax policy. Moreover, more research on how ownership and forms of financing affect product market interaction, innovation and social welfare seems warranted. In an effort to advance research in this area, the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) organized an international two-day conference on Industrial Organization and Corporate Finance. The conference brought together top researchers working on policy-oriented issues in industrial organization and corporate finance. The overarching objective was to shed light on how corporate finance concepts can be more closely incorporated into traditional economic models and thereby better help guide competition, industry and tax policies in a globalized world.