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2006 - 2025

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Volume 56, issue 4, 2025

Pay Transparency and Inventor Productivity: Evidence From State‐Level Pay Secrecy Laws pp. 389-418

Huasheng Gao, Po‐Hsuan Hsu and Jin Zhang

Endogenous Technology Spillovers in R&D Collaboration Networks pp. 419-443

Chih‐Sheng Hsieh, Michael D. König and Xiaodong Liu

Drip Pricing When Consumers Have Limited Foresight: Evidence from Driving School Fees pp. 444-475

Katja Seim and Maria Ana Vitorino

Contingent Prizes in Dynamic Contests pp. 476-493

Jorge Lemus and Guillermo Marshall

Data and Competition: A Simple Framework pp. 494-510

Alexandre de Cornière and Greg Taylor

The Timing of New Technology Adoption: The Case of MRI pp. 511-527

Philipp Schmidt‐Dengler

Endogenous Outside Option and Data Privacy pp. 528-545

Teck Yong Tan

Price Setting on a Network pp. 546-561

Toomas Hinnosaar

Authority and Specialization Under Informational Interdependence pp. 562-586

Daniel Habermacher

Rx‐to‐OTC Switch, Market Exclusivity, and Consumer Welfare: A Study of the US Anti‐Ulcer Drug Markets pp. 587-606

Debi Prasad Mohapatra and Yang Zhang

Multivariate Incomplete Information in the Mixture Model of Contests pp. 607-624

René Kirkegaard

Match Quality, Search, and the Internet Market for Used Books pp. 625-654

Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison

Auctioning Off Budgets in Procurement pp. 655-667

Claudio Rottner

Content‐Hosting Platforms: Discovery, Membership, Or Both? pp. 668-688

Ben Casner and Tat‐How Teh

Estimating Complementarity With Large Choice Sets: An Application to Mergers pp. 689-707

Daniel Ershov, Jean‐William Laliberté, Mathieu Marcoux and Scott Orr

Opportunism in Vertical Contracting: A Dynamic Perspective pp. 708-737

Jihwan Do and Jeanine Miklós‐Thal

A Dynamic Model of Predation pp. 738-755

Patrick Rey, Yossi Spiegel and Konrad Stahl

Volume 56, issue 3, 2025

An Aggregative Games Approach to Merger Analysis in Multiproduct‐Firm Oligopoly pp. 233-250

Volker Nocke and Nicolas Schutz

Is Resale Needed in Markets with Refunds? Evidence from College Football Ticket Sales pp. 251-268

Drew Vollmer

Endogenous Prices in Markets with Reputational Concerns pp. 269-284

Magnus Våge Knutsen

Cost Coordination pp. 285-301

Joseph E. Harrington

Measuring Substitution Patterns in the Attention Economy: An Experimental Approach pp. 302-324

Guy Aridor

Bidding for Contracts under Uncertain Demand: Skewed Bidding and Risk Sharing pp. 325-343

Yao Luo and Hidenori Takahashi

The Rise of For‐Profit Higher Education: A General Equilibrium Analysis pp. 344-365

Ciprian Domnisoru and Ioana Schiopu

Bargaining Between Collaborators of a Stochastic Project pp. 366-384

Z. Eddie Ning

Volume 56, issue 2, 2025

Why “Energy Price Brakes” Encourage Moral Hazard, Raise Energy Prices, and Reinforce Energy Savings pp. 129-144

Markus Dertwinkel‐Kalt and Christian Wey

Information Disclosure in Preemption Races: Blessing or (Winner's) Curse? pp. 145-162

Catherine Bobtcheff, Raphaël Levy and Thomas Mariotti

Product Development with Lurking Patentees pp. 163-183

Erik Hovenkamp, Jorge Lemus and John L. Turner

Manipulative Disclosure pp. 184-193

Claudio Mezzetti

The Buyer Power Effect of Retail Mergers: An Empirical Model of Bargaining with Equilibrium of Fear pp. 194-215

Céline Bonnet, Zohra Bouamra‐Mechemache and Hugo Molina

On the Ratchet Effect with Product Market Competition pp. 216-230

Michele Bisceglia and Salvatore Piccolo

Volume 56, issue 1, 2025

Strategic Reneging and Market Power in Sequential Markets pp. 3-34

David Benatia and Etienne Billette de Villemeur

Why Do Retail Prices Fall During Seasonal Demand Peaks? pp. 35-54

R. Andrew Butters, Daniel W. Sacks and Boyoung Seo

Optimal Incentive Contracts With Bonus Caps pp. 55-73

Chang Koo Chi and Trond E. Olsen

The Effects of Advertising Disclosure Regulations on Social Media: Evidence From Instagram pp. 74-90

Daniel Ershov and Matthew Mitchell

Transparency and Policymaking with Endogenous Information Provision pp. 91-105

Hanzhe Li

The Competitive Conduct of Consumer Cooperatives pp. 106-125

Marco Duarte, Lorenzo Magnolfi and Camilla Roncoroni

Volume 55, issue 4, 2024

Steering via algorithmic recommendations pp. 501-518

Nan Chen and Hsin‐Tien Tsai

Voluntary disclosure of verifiable information with general preferences and information endowment uncertainty pp. 519-549

Patrick Hummel, John Morgan and Phillip C. Stocken

Better monitoring …Worse outcome? pp. 550-572

John Y. Zhu

Market transparency and consumer search—Evidence from the German retail gasoline market pp. 573-602

Simon Martin

Optimal pricing scheme for addictive goods pp. 603-626

Eleftheria Triviza

When is competition price‐increasing? The impact of expected competition on prices pp. 627-657

Sephorah Mangin

Estimating industry conduct using promotion data pp. 658-683

Christian Michel, Jose Manuel Paz y Miño and Stefan Weiergraeber

Hybrid platform model: monopolistic competition and a dominant firm pp. 684-718

Simon Anderson and Özlem Bedre Defolie

On excessive entry in Bayes‐Cournot oligopoly pp. 719-748

Michele Bisceglia, Jorge Padilla, Joe Perkins and Salvatore Piccolo

Direct sales and bargaining pp. 749-787

Javier D. Donna, Pedro Pereira, Yun Pu, Andre Trindade and Renan C. Yoshida

Management forecasts: Biases, incentives, and spillover effects pp. 788-814

Ronald A. Dye and Sri S. Sridharan

Volume 55, issue 2, 2024

The timing and location of entry in growing markets: subgame perfection at work pp. 169-198

Bryan Bollinger, Ulrich Doraszelski, Kenneth L. Judd and Ryan C. McDevitt

Robust contracts in common agency pp. 199-229

Keler Marku, Sergio Ocampo and Jean‐Baptiste Tondji

Price customization and targeting in matching markets pp. 230-265

Renato Gomes and Alessandro Pavan

Correlation‐savvy sellers pp. 266-291

Roland Strausz

Search with learning in the retail gasoline market pp. 292-323

Xiaosong Wu, Matthew Lewis and Frank A. Wolak

Long‐term competition for product awareness with learning from friends pp. 324-355

Qiang Gong, Yujing Xu and Huanxing Yang

Volume 55, issue 1, 2024

Subcontracting requirements and the cost of government procurement pp. 3-32

Benjamin Rosa

Strategic communication in committees with expressive payoffs pp. 33-54

Yves Breitmoser and Justin Valasek

One size fits all? The value of standardized retail chains pp. 55-86

Ben Klopack

Spillovers from ancillary services to wholesale energy markets pp. 87-111

Jesse Buchsbaum, Catherine Hausman, Johanna L Mathieu and Jing Peng

Promoting a reputation for quality pp. 112-139

Daniel N Hauser

Does competition increase pass‐through? pp. 140-165

Robert Ritz