Industry & Policy Lab
An industrial organization and policy evaluation toolkit — from market structure and firm conduct to M&A screening and welfare measurement. Upload your data once and run any of 35+ analyses across five analytical frameworks.
Overview
35+ IO & policy analyses
Market structure, firm conduct, M&A screening, policy evaluation, and welfare measurement — all in one toolkit.
Upload once, analyze many
Load your CSV once and run any analysis without re-uploading.
Export & AI Chat
Download results as CSV, PNG, or Word — or ask the AI Chat to interpret your findings.
What you need
What you can do
How it works
Some analyses need no file at all
Some analyses run purely from on-page inputs — no upload required. Others use your uploaded data. Either way, when you do upload, one file works across every analysis in this lab.
Select an analysis
Pick an analysis from the sidebar. Before any data is loaded, the page opens on an intro screen for that analysis.
Check what it needs
The intro splits inputs into REQUIRED (needed to run) and OPTIONAL ones that refine the result. Map the columns you have. Use the Guide or load the sample dataset to see the format.
Upload or set inputs
Drag a CSV or Excel file anywhere onto the page — a drop zone appears; release to upload. One upload works across every analysis. Input-only analyses just take values on the page.
Map your columns
Open the Variables dropdown and match your columns to the fields each analysis needs (e.g. firm, period, price, cost). Most auto-detect from the names; the result renders as soon as they’re mapped — no Run button.
On an analysis page
At the top of every analysis page you'll find a Variables dropdown — assign your columns to the fields each analysis needs (e.g. firm, period, price, cost; most fields auto-detect from the column names) — and a Guide button that explains the method. Both stay at the top while you work.
Reading your results
Once it renders, the result comes in two parts: a plain-language Summary with the headline finding and key findings, followed by the detailed output — metric cards, tables, and charts.
AI Chat — ask anything about your result
Once an analysis runs, a circular toggle button appears at the bottom of the results panel. Click it to open AI Chat — the AI already knows which analysis was run and what the result was, so you can ask follow-up questions without re-explaining the context.
Explain results in plain language
Translates output into plain sentences — useful for stakeholders who don't read statistics.
Interpret key numbers
Ask about any metric in the result — what it means, whether it's significant, and why it matters.
Suggest next steps
Ask what the result implies in practice and what you should consider doing next.
Draft a summary
Request a written paragraph based on the result, ready to copy into a report or presentation.
Analysis sections
Industry & Policy Lab organizes its analyses into 5 sections by analytical framework.
Structure
What does the market look like?
Market Definition
Market Definition
Delineate the relevant market using the SSNIP / hypothetical-monopolist test.
Cross-Price Elasticity
Measure how demand for one product responds to another’s price to test substitutability.
Concentration & Power
HHI & Concentration
Herfindahl-Hirschman Index and concentration ratios (CR4/CR8) to gauge market concentration.
Lerner Index
Measure market power as the markup of price over marginal cost.
Markup Estimation
Estimate price-cost markups from production data (De Loecker-Warzynski approach).
Labor Monopsony
Assess employer wage-setting power from the labor-supply elasticity facing the firm.
Entry & Barriers
Entry Barriers
Identify and size structural barriers — scale, capital, switching costs — facing new entrants.
Entry & Exit Rates
Track firm entry and exit over time as a measure of market contestability.
Conduct
How do firms behave?
Collusion Detection
Price Parallelism
Test whether rivals’ prices move in lockstep, a possible signal of coordination.
Bid Rigging
Screen procurement bids for patterns consistent with collusive tendering.
Unilateral Conduct
Abuse of Dominance
Assess whether a dominant firm’s conduct forecloses or harms competition.
Predatory Pricing
Test pricing below cost (Areeda-Turner) intended to drive out rivals.
Price Discrimination
Detect and classify charging different prices to different buyers (1st / 2nd / 3rd degree).
Vertical Relations
Vertical Integration
Analyze how upstream-downstream integration affects foreclosure and efficiency.
M&A
How does a merger reshape the market?
Pre-Merger Screening
ΔHHI Test
Compute the change in HHI from a merger against agency screening thresholds.
UPP
Upward Pricing Pressure — gauge a merger’s unilateral incentive to raise prices.
Diversion Ratios
Measure how much of one product’s lost sales divert to the merging partner.
Merger Simulation
Logit + Bertrand
Simulate post-merger prices from a logit demand system and Bertrand pricing.
Post-Merger Evaluation
Event Study (Stock)
Use abnormal stock returns around the announcement to infer expected competitive effects.
DID on Prices
Difference-in-differences on prices before vs after a merger against a control market.
Policy
What changes when government intervenes?
Causal Methods
DID
Difference-in-Differences — estimate a policy’s effect by comparing treated and control groups over time.
Event Study
Trace the dynamic effect of a policy period by period around its introduction.
RDD
Regression Discontinuity — identify effects at an eligibility cutoff or threshold.
IV
Instrumental Variables — recover causal effects when treatment is endogenous.
Policy Instruments
Tax/Subsidy Pass-through
Measure how much of a tax or subsidy is passed through to prices.
Price Regulation
Evaluate the effect of price caps or floors on quantity, welfare, and shortages.
Trade Policy
Assess tariffs, quotas, and trade measures on prices and domestic output.
Impact
What are the productivity and welfare effects?
Productivity
TFP (Levinsohn-Petrin)
Total Factor Productivity estimated with the Levinsohn-Petrin control for input choice.
Scale Economies
Test for increasing, constant, or decreasing returns to scale from cost or production data.
X-Inefficiency (DEA)
Data Envelopment Analysis — benchmark each firm against the best-practice efficiency frontier.
Industry Dynamics
Firm Survival
Model the hazard of firm exit and survival probabilities over time.
Reallocation
Decompose productivity growth into within-firm gains and reallocation across firms.
Linkages & Multipliers
Output Multiplier
Input-output multiplier — total output generated per unit of final demand.
Employment Multiplier
Jobs created across the economy per direct job in the sector.
Welfare
Consumer & Producer Welfare
Estimate consumer and producer surplus and the deadweight loss from a change.
Wage Premium
Measure the wage gap attributable to an industry, skill, or policy.