American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

2009 - 2025

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Volume 17, issue 2, 2025

Price and Choose pp. 1-27

Federico Echenique and Matias Nuñez

Aggressive Pivots and Entrepreneurial Skill pp. 28-65

Xuelin Li and Martin Szydlowski

Complementary Bidding and the Collusive Arrangement: Evidence from an Antitrust Investigation pp. 66-93

Robert Clark, Decio Coviello and Adriano De Leverano

Optimal Contract Regulation in Selection Markets pp. 94-126

Yehuda John Levy and André Veiga

Search Costs and Context Effects pp. 127-61

Heiko Karle, Florian Kerzenmacher, Heiner Schumacher and Frank Verboven

Ideological Bias and Trust in Information Sources pp. 162-213

Matthew Gentzkow, Michael B. Wong and Allen T. Zhang

Strategic Thinking Skills: A Key to Collective Economic Success pp. 214-40

Syngjoo Choi, Seonghoon Kim and Wooyoung Lim

Severance Pay in an Optimal Contract pp. 241-91

Borys Grochulski, Russell Wong and Yuzhe Zhang

Free Entry in a Cournot Market with Overlapping Ownership pp. 292-320

Xavier Vives and Orestis Vravosinos

Persistent Protests pp. 321-57

Sofia Correa

Volume 17, issue 1, 2025

The Modern Wholesaler: Global Sourcing, Domestic Distribution, and Scale Economies pp. 1-40

Sharat Ganapati

The Inner Workings of a Hub-and-Spoke Cartel in the Automotive Fuel Industry pp. 41-65

Daniel Chaves and Marco Duarte

A Random Dictator Is All You Need pp. 66-96

Itai Arieli, Yakov Babichenko, Inbal Talgam-Cohen and Konstantin Zabarnyi

Scoring Strategic Agents pp. 97-129

Ian Ball

Eliciting Time Preferences When Income and Consumption Vary: Theory, Validation, and Application to Job Search pp. 130-70

Michèle Belot, Philipp Kircher and Paul Muller

One Man, One Vote pp. 171-205

Romans Pancs and Tridib Sharma

Commitment and Conflict in Unanimity Bargaining pp. 206-37

Topi Miettinen and Christoph Vanberg

Estimating Models of Supply and Demand: Instruments and Covariance Restrictions pp. 238-81

Alexander MacKay and Nathan H. Miller

Triplet Embeddings for Demand Estimation pp. 282-307

Lorenzo Magnolfi, Jonathon McClure and Alan Sorensen

Long-Term Relationships in the US Truckload Freight Industry pp. 308-53

Adam Harris and Thi Mai Anh Nguyen

Eliciting Ambiguity with Mixing Bets pp. 354-88

Patrick Schmidt

Global Giants and Local Stars: How Changes in Brand Ownership Affect Competition pp. 389-434

Vanessa Alviarez, Keith Head and Thierry Mayer

Volume 16, issue 4, 2024

The Status Quo and Belief Polarization of Inattentive Agents: Theory and Experiment pp. 1-39

Vladimír Novák, Andrei Matveenko and Silvio Ravaioli

Consistent Depth of Reasoning in Level-k Models pp. 40-76

David J. Cooper, Enrique Fatas, Antonio J. Morales and Shi Qi

A New Era of Midnight Mergers: Antitrust Risk and Investor Disclosures pp. 77-111

John M. Barrios and Thomas G. Wollmann

Noncompete Agreements and the Welfare of Consumers pp. 112-53

Michael Lipsitz and Mark Tremblay

Dual Moral Hazard and the Tyranny of Success pp. 154-91

Enrique Ide

Recovering the Anchoring of Economic Valuations pp. 192-228

Liang Guo

Bargaining in the Shadow of Uncertainty pp. 229-58

Marina Agranov, Hülya Eraslan and Chloe Tergiman

Fair Shares and Selective Attention pp. 259-90

Dianna R. Amasino, Davide D. Pace and Joël J. van der Weele

A Revealed Preference Test for Choquet and Max-Min Expected Utility with Ambiguity Aversion pp. 291-328

Thomas Demuynck and Clément Staner

The Inverse Product Differentiation Logit Model pp. 329-70

Mogens Fosgerau, Julien Monardo and André de Palma

Secure Survey Design in Organizations: Theory and Experiments pp. 371-405

Sylvain Chassang and Christian Zehnder

Decentralized Matching with Transfers: Experimental and Noncooperative Analyses pp. 406-39

Simin He, Jiabin Wu, Hanzhe Zhang and Xun Zhu

Corrupted Votes and Rule Compliance pp. 440-74

Arno Apffelstaedt and Jana Freundt

On Optimal Scheduling pp. 475-522

Kfir Eliaz, Daniel Fershtman and Alexander Frug

Volume 16, issue 3, 2024

Correlation Neglect in Student-to-School Matching pp. 1-42

Alex Rees-Jones, Ran Shorrer and Chloe Tergiman

Communicating about Confidence: Cheap Talk with an Ambiguity-Averse Receiver pp. 43-75

Philippe Colo

The Dynamic Effects of Recycling on Oligopoly Competition: Evidence from the US Paper Industry pp. 76-106

Eddie Watkins

Concentration and Geographic Proximity in Antitrust Policy: Evidence from Bank Mergers pp. 107-33

David Benson, Samuel Blattner, Serafin Grundl, You Suk Kim and Ken Onishi

Monitoring Teams pp. 134-61

Marina Halac, Ilan Kremer and Eyal Winter

Everyday Econometricians: Selection Neglect and Overoptimism When Learning from Others pp. 162-98

Kai Barron, Steffen Huck and Philippe Jehiel

Intelligence Disclosure and Cooperation in Repeated Interactions pp. 199-231

Marco Lambrecht, Eugenio Proto, Aldo Rustichini and Andis Sofianos

Negotiating Cooperation under Uncertainty: Communication in Noisy, Indefinitely Repeated Interactions pp. 232-58

Fabian Dvorak and Sebastian Fehrler

Beliefs, Learning, and Personality in the Indefinitely Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma pp. 259-83

David Gill and Yaroslav Rosokha

Monopolization with Must-Haves pp. 284-320

Enrique Ide and Juan-Pablo Montero

Limited Strategic Thinking and the Cursed Match pp. 321-44

Olivier Bochet and Jacopo Magnani

Dynamic Oligopoly Pricing with Asymmetric Information: Implications for Horizontal Mergers pp. 345-73

Andrew Sweeting, Xuezhen Tao and Xinlu Yao

Dynamic Incentives and Permit Market Equilibrium in Cap-and-Trade Regulation pp. 374-423

Yuta Toyama

A Kinky Consistency: Experimental Evidence of Behavior under Linear and Nonlinear Budget Constraints pp. 424-58

Emiliano Huet-Vaughn, Ethan M. L. McClure and Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato

Public Debt and the Political Economy of Reforms pp. 459-91

Pierre Boyer, Brian Roberson and Christoph Esslinger

Selling Dreams: Endogenous Optimism in Lending Markets pp. 492-524

Luc Bridet and Peter Schwardmann

Volume 16, issue 2, 2024

The Fake News Effect: Experimentally Identifying Motivated Reasoning Using Trust in News pp. 1-38

Michael Thaler

Multigame Contact: A Double-Edged Sword for Cooperation pp. 39-61

Vincent Laferrière, Joao Montez, Catherine Roux and Christian Thöni

Media Competition and News Diets pp. 62-102

Charles Angelucci, Julia Cagé and Michael Sinkinson

Technology Transfer in Global Value Chains pp. 103-46

Thomas Sampson

Equity Concerns Are Narrowly Framed pp. 147-79

Christine L. Exley and Judd B. Kessler

Variety-Based Congestion in Online Markets: Evidence from Mobile Apps pp. 180-203

Daniel Ershov

The Welfare Effects of Vertical Integration in China's Movie Industry pp. 204-35

Luming Chen, Lisa Xuejie Yi and Chuan Yu

Contingent Reasoning and Dynamic Public Goods Provision pp. 236-66

Evan Calford and Timothy Cason

(Reverse) Price Discrimination with Information Design pp. 267-95

Dong Wei and Brett Green

Strategic Incentives and the Optimal Sale of Information pp. 296-353

Rosina Rodríguez Olivera

A Theory of Monopolistic Competition with Horizontally Heterogeneous Consumers pp. 354-84

Sergey Kokovin, Alina Ozhegova, Shamil Sharapudinov, Alexander Tarasov and Philip Ushchev

Consumer Search and Product Returns in E-Commerce pp. 387-419

Maarten Janssen and Cole Williams

Volume 16, issue 1, 2024

Predicting Cooperation with Learning Models pp. 1-32

Drew Fudenberg and Gustav Karreskog Rehbinder

Social Connectedness and Information Markets pp. 33-62

Rachel Kranton and David McAdams

Innovation in Decentralized Markets: Technology versus Synthetic Products pp. 63-109

Marzena Rostek and Ji Hee Yoon

Exit Dilemma: The Role of Private Learning on Firm Survival pp. 110-54

Doruk Cetemen and Chiara Margaria

A Random Reference Model pp. 155-209

Özgür Kibris, Yusufcan Masatlioglu and Elchin Suleymanov

Weighted Utility and Optimism/Pessimism: A Decision-Theoretic Foundation of Various Stochastic Dominance Orders pp. 210-23

Tao Wang and Ehud Lehrer

Coordination in the Fight against Collusion pp. 224-61

Elisabetta Iossa, Simon Loertscher, Leslie M. Marx and Patrick Rey

Constructive versus Toxic Argumentation in Debates pp. 262-92

Tymofiy Mylovanov and Andriy Zapechelnyuk

Anticompetitive Bundling When Buyers Compete pp. 293-328

Alexandre de Cornière and Greg Taylor

Intertemporal Altruism pp. 329-57

Felix Chopra, Armin Falk and Thomas Graeber