June 2026 (Volume 63 No. 1)

Articles in this issue:

The Philippine Competition Commission: the first ten years by Farasat A.S. Bokhari, Carlos Vega

A Symposium on Competition Policy in the Philippines

  1. Tariff cuts without consumer gains? A competition policy perspective on Philippine price trends by Enrico G. Trinidad, Majah-Leah V. Ravago, Arsenio M. Balisacan
  2. Local labor market concentration and union activity in the Philippines: descriptive estimates and implications by Vincent Jerald Ramos, Edgardo Manuel Jopson, Edgar Antonio Suguitan
  3. The Grab and Uber merger: a retrospective by Charles David A. Icasiano, Philip Amadeus D. Libre
  4. Multihoming and platform choice in online food delivery by Edgardo Manuel Jopson, Fabio M. Manenti, Franco Mariuzzo, Shereena S. Salas, Junjun Zhang

Regular Articles

  1. The Philippine economy: no longer the East Asian exception? Revisited by Hal Hill
  2. Does gender stereotyping influence labor force participation in the Philippines? by Nikkin L. Beronilla, Raymundo P. Addun, Dennis S. Mapa

The Philippine Review of Economics is devoted to the publication of theoretical and empirical work in economic development. It is indexed in in SCOPUS, RePEc, the Journal of Economic Literature and EconLit.

It welcomes papers about the Philippines and about other developing economies. It is also a forum for research findings that show the links of economics with other disciplines.

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