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Volume 52, issue 4, 2021

Empirical properties of diversion ratios pp. 693-726

Christopher Conlon and Julie Mortimer

Input price discrimination by resale market pp. 727-757

Jeanine Miklós‐Thal and Greg Shaffer

Optimal pricing, private information and search for an outside offer pp. 758-777

Sarah Auster, Nenad Kos and Salvatore Piccolo

Market‐expanding or Market‐stealing? Competition with network effects in bike‐sharing pp. 778-814

Guangyu Cao, Ginger Zhe Jin, Xi Weng and Li-An Zhou

Private contracts in two‐sided platforms pp. 815-838

Gastón Llanes and Francisco Ruiz‐Aliseda

Divide and conquer in two‐sided markets: A potential‐game approach pp. 839-858

Lester T. Chan

Signaling versus Auditing pp. 859-883

Helmut Bester, Matthias Lang and Jianpei Li

Privatization and productivity in China pp. 884-916

Yuyu Chen, Mitsuru Igami, Masayuki Sawada and Mo Xiao

Consumer privacy and serial monopoly pp. 917-944

V. Bhaskar and Nikita Roketskiy

Measuring long‐run gasoline price elasticities in urban travel demand pp. 945-994

Javier Donna

Volume 52, issue 3, 2021

When the threat is stronger than the execution: trade and welfare under oligopoly pp. 471-495

Dermot Leahy and J. Peter Neary

Information asymmetry, trade, and drilling: evidence from an oil lease lottery pp. 496-514

Paul Brehm and Eric Lewis

Competing data intermediaries pp. 515-537

Shota Ichihashi

Autonomous algorithmic collusion: Q‐learning under sequential pricing pp. 538-558

Timo Klein

Taxation and market power in the legal marijuana industry pp. 559-595

Brett Hollenbeck and Kosuke Uetake

Simulating mergers in a vertical supply chain with bargaining pp. 596-632

Gloria Sheu and Charles Taragin

Multiproduct mergers and quality competition pp. 633-661

Justin P. Johnson and Andrew Rhodes

Patent auctions and bidding coalitions: structuring the sale of club goods pp. 662-690

John Asker, Mariagiovanna Baccara and SangMok Lee

Volume 52, issue 2, 2021

Waiting for my neighbors pp. 251-282

Sidartha Gordon, Emeric Henry and Pauli Murto

Selling strategic information in digital competitive markets pp. 283-313

David Bounie, Antoine Dubus and Patrick Waelbroeck

Public good overprovision by a manipulative provider pp. 314-333

Gorkem Celik, Dongsoo Shin and Roland Strausz

Team incentives under private contracting pp. 334-358

Maris Goldmanis and Korok Ray

Managing adverse selection: underinsurance versus underenrollment pp. 359-381

Evan Saltzman

Hospital competition and quality for non‐emergency patients in the English NHS pp. 382-414

Giuseppe Moscelli, Hugh Gravelle and Luigi Siciliani

Managing a conflict: optimal alternative dispute resolution pp. 415-445

Benjamin Balzer and Johannes Schneider

Optimal financial contracting and the effects of firm's size pp. 446-467

Sandro Brusco, Giuseppe Lopomo, Eva Ropero and Alessandro T. Villa

Volume 52, issue 1, 2021

Free ad(vice): internet influencers and disclosure regulation pp. 3-21

Matthew Mitchell

Moral hazard in teams with subjective evaluations pp. 22-48

Chen Cheng

The management of talent: Optimal contracting for selection and incentives pp. 49-77

Dana Foarta and Takuo Sugaya

Finding Mr. Schumpeter: technology adoption in the cement industry pp. 78-99

Jeffrey T. Macher, Nathan H. Miller and Matthew Osborne

Competitive differential pricing pp. 100-124

Yongmin Chen, Jianpei Li and Marius Schwartz

Information, market power, and price volatility pp. 125-150

Dirk Bergemann, Tibor Heumann and Stephen Morris

Mergers and marginal costs: New evidence on hospital buyer power pp. 151-178

Stuart V. Craig, Matthew Grennan and Ashley Swanson

Competitive procurement with ex post moral hazard pp. 179-206

Indranil Chakraborty, Fahad Khalil and Jacques Lawarree

No reliance on guidance: counter‐signaling in management forecasts pp. 207-245

Cyrus Aghamolla, Carlos Corona and Ronghuo Zheng

Volume 51, issue 4, 2020

Buying reputation as a signal of quality: Evidence from an online marketplace pp. 965-988

Lingfang Li, Steven Tadelis and Xiaolan Zhou

Optimal certification policy, entry, and investment in the presence of public signals pp. 989-1013

Jay Pil Choi and Arijit Mukherjee

Robust pricing with refunds pp. 1014-1036

Toomas Hinnosaar and Keiichi Kawai

Constrained listening, audience alignment, and expert communication pp. 1037-1062

Paul E. Fischer, Mirko S. Heinle and Kevin C. Smith

Information acquisition and voting with heterogeneous experts pp. 1063-1092

Xu Tan and Quan Wen

On the core of auctions with externalities: stability and fairness pp. 1093-1107

Seungwon (Eugene) Jeong

Best practices for differentiated products demand estimation with PyBLP pp. 1108-1161

Christopher Conlon and Jeff Gortmaker

Attribute substitution in household vehicle portfolios pp. 1162-1196

James Archsmith, Kenneth Gillingham, Christopher R. Knittel and David Rapson

Trade associations and collusion among many agents: evidence from physicians pp. 1197-1221

Jorge Alé‐Chilet and Juan Pablo Atal

Learning while setting precedents pp. 1222-1252

Ying Chen and Hülya Eraslan

Insurance law and incomplete contracts pp. 1253-1286

Jean-Marc Bourgeon and Pierre Picard

Screening soft information: evidence from loan officers pp. 1287-1322

James Wang

Volume 51, issue 3, 2020

Price discrimination in political advertising: Evidence from the 2012 presidential election pp. 615-649

Sarah Moshary

The curse of knowledge: having access to customer information can reduce monopoly profits pp. 650-675

Didier Laussel, Ngo Long and Joana Resende

Word‐of‐mouth communication and search pp. 676-712

Arthur Campbell, C. Matthew Leister and Yves Zenou

The demand‐boost theory of exclusive dealing pp. 713-738

Giacomo Calzolari, Vincenzo Denicolo' and Piercarlo Zanchettin

Vertical structure and innovation: A study of the SoC and smartphone industries pp. 739-785

Chenyu Yang

Multi‐part tariffs and differentiated commodity taxation pp. 786-804

Anna D'Annunzio, Mohammed Mardan and Antonio Russo

A computational framework for analyzing dynamic auctions: The market impact of information sharing pp. 805-839

John Asker, Chaim Fershtman, Jihye Jeon and Ariel Pakes

Not knowing the competition: evidence and implications for auction design pp. 840-867

Yunmi Kong

Estimation in English auctions with unobserved heterogeneity pp. 868-904

Cristián Hernández, Daniel Quint and Christopher Turansick

Intermediaries and product quality in used car markets pp. 905-933

Gary Biglaiser, Fei Li, Charles Murry and Yiyi Zhou

Preemption contests between groups pp. 934-961

Stefano Barbieri, Kai Konrad and David A. Malueg

Volume 51, issue 2, 2020

Incentive‐compatible advertising on nonretail platforms pp. 323-345

Kfir Eliaz and Ran Spiegler

Search and Wholesale Price Discrimination pp. 346-374

Guillermo Marshall

Dynamic competition in deceptive markets pp. 375-401

Johannes Johnen

Targeted information and limited attention pp. 402-420

Andreas Hefti and Shuo Liu

Information exchange in cartels pp. 421-446

Yu Awaya and Vijay Krishna

Estimating dynamic games of oligopolistic competition: an experimental investigation pp. 447-469

Tobias Salz and Emanuel Vespa

Aggregative games and oligopoly theory: short‐run and long‐run analysis pp. 470-495

Simon Anderson, Nisvan Erkal and Daniel Piccinin

Identifying productivity when it is a factor of production pp. 496-530

Zach Flynn

Estimating the benefits and costs of forming business partnerships pp. 531-562

Jungho Lee

Markets for ideas: prize structure, entry limits, and the design of ideation contests pp. 563-588

Alexei Kireyev

Contracting with private rewards pp. 589-612

Rene Kirkegaard

Volume 51, issue 1, 2020

Dynamic competition with network externalities: how history matters pp. 3-31

Hanna Halaburda, Bruno Jullien and Yaron Yehezkel

Search platforms: showrooming and price parity clauses pp. 32-58

Chengsi Wang and Julian Wright

The impact of the managed care backlash on health care spending pp. 59-108

Maxim L. Pinkovskiy

Patent citations reexamined pp. 109-132

Jeffrey Kuhn, Kenneth Younge and Alan Marco

Vertical collusion pp. 133-157

David Gilo and Yaron Yehezkel

Collusion with intertemporal price dispersion pp. 158-188

Nicolas de Roos and Vladimir Smirnov

Measuring competition in spatial retail pp. 189-232

Paul B. Ellickson, Paul L.E. Grieco and Oleksii Khvastunov

Product safety, contracts, and liability pp. 233-259

Xiny Hua and Kathryn E. Spier

Loss leading with salient thinkers pp. 260-278

Roman Inderst and Martin Obradovits

Oligopolistic equilibrium and financial constraints pp. 279-300

Carmen Bevia, Luis Corchon and Yosuke Yasuda

Push or pull? Performance‐pay, incentives, and information pp. 301-317

David Rietzke and Yu Chen