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Volume 49, issue 4, 2018

Endogenous cases and the evolution of the common law pp. 791-818

Giri Parameswaran

Gaming and strategic opacity in incentive provision pp. 819-854

Florian Ederer, Richard Holden and Margaret Meyer

Competition for traders and risk pp. 855-876

Michiel Bijlsma, Jan Boone and Gijsbert Zwart

Product variety, across‐market demand heterogeneity, and the value of online retail pp. 877-913

Thomas W. Quan and Kevin R. Williams

Dynamic price competition in auto insurance brokerage pp. 914-935

Luis Braido and Bruno C.A. Ledo

Banking privatization and market structure in Brazil: a dynamic structural analysis pp. 936-963

Fabio Sanches, Daniel Silva Junior and Sorawoot Srisuma

Spillovers from entry: the impact of bank branch network expansion pp. 964-994

Joseph Kuehn

Comparing auction designs where suppliers have uncertain costs and uncertain pivotal status pp. 995-1027

Pär Holmberg and Frank A. Wolak

Volume 49, issue 3, 2018

Collusion with limited product comparability pp. 481-503

Nicolas de Roos

Fuel taxation, emissions policy, and competitive advantage in the diffusion of European diesel automobiles pp. 504-540

Eugenio Miravete, María José Moral and Jeff Thurk

The determinants of product lines pp. 541-573

Justin P. Johnson and David Myatt

Auctions with ex post uncertainty pp. 574-593

Yao Luo, Isabelle Perrigne and Quang Vuong

Strategic design under uncertain evaluations: structural analysis of design‐build auctions pp. 594-618

Hidenori Takahashi

Pairing provision price and default remedy: optimal two‐stage procurement with private R&D efficiency pp. 619-655

Bin Liu and Jingfeng Lu

Cross‐licensing and competition pp. 656-671

Doh-Shin Jeon and Yassine Lefouili

Competitive pricing strategies in social networks pp. 672-705

Ying‐Ju Chen, Yves Zenou and Junjie Zhou

The effect of entry on R&D networks pp. 706-750

Emmanuel Petrakis and Nikolas Tsakas

Multidimensional private information, market structure, and insurance markets pp. 751-787

Hanming Fang and Zenan Wu

Volume 49, issue 2, 2018

Subsidizing research programs with “if†and “when†uncertainty in the face of severe informational constraints pp. 285-310

David Besanko, Jian Tong and Jason Jianjun Wu

Extracting information or resource? The Hotelling rule revisited under asymmetric information pp. 311-347

David Martimort, Jerome Pouyet and Francesco Ricci

False advertising pp. 348-369

Andrew Rhodes and Chris M. Wilson

An optimal rule for patent damages under sequential innovation pp. 370-397

Yongmin Chen and David Sappington

Design of public procurement auctions: evidence from cleaning contracts pp. 398-426

Ari Hyytinen, Sofia Lundberg and Otto Toivanen

Scale versus scope in the diffusion of new technology: evidence from the farm tractor pp. 427-452

Daniel Gross

How consumers respond to product certification and the value of energy information pp. 453-477

Sébastien Houde

Volume 49, issue 1, 2018

Middlemen: the good, the bad, and the ugly pp. 3-22

Gary Biglaiser and Fei Li

Optimal regulation of network expansion pp. 23-42

Bert Willems and Gijsbert Zwart

The effect of ad blocking on website traffic and quality pp. 43-63

Benjamin Shiller, Joel Waldfogel and Johnny Ryan

Patent rights, innovation, and firm exit pp. 64-86

Alberto Galasso and Mark Schankerman

Complements and substitutes in sequential auctions: the case of water auctions pp. 87-127

Javier Donna and José†Antonio Espín†Sánchez

Bundling and quality assurance pp. 128-154

James Dana and Kathryn E. Spier

All†units discounts as a partial foreclosure device pp. 155-180

Yong Chao, Guofu Tan and Adam Chi Leung Wong

Dead poets' property—how does copyright influence price? pp. 181-205

Xing Li, Megan MacGarvie and Petra Moser

Consumer obfuscation by a multiproduct firm pp. 206-223

Vaiva PetrikaitÄ—

Consumer search with observational learning pp. 224-253

Daniel Garcia and Sandro Shelegia

Selling information to competitive firms pp. 254-282

Jakub Kastl, Marco Pagnozzi and Salvatore Piccolo

Volume 48, issue 4, 2017

The impact of consumer inattention on insurer pricing in the Medicare Part D program pp. 877-905

Kate Ho, Joseph Hogan and Fiona Scott Morton

Competitive foreclosure pp. 906-926

Roberto Burguet and József Sákovics

Advertising and attachment: exploiting loss aversion through prepurchase information pp. 927-948

Heiko Karle and Heiner Schumacher

Advertising as a search deterrent pp. 949-971

Chengsi Wang

Consumers' activism: the cottage cheese boycott pp. 972-1003

Igal Hendel, Saul Lach and Yossi Spiegel

Patent privateering, litigation, and R&D incentives pp. 1004-1026

Jorge Lemus and Emil Temnyalov

Does buyer heterogeneity steepen or flatten quantity discounts? pp. 1027-1043

John Conlon

Knowledge transfer and partial equity ownership pp. 1044-1067

Arghya Ghosh and Hodaka Morita

The accuracy of hospital merger screening methods pp. 1068-1102

Christopher Garmon

The economic advantages of chain organization pp. 1103-1135

Brett Hollenbeck

Volume 48, issue 3, 2017

Monopoly regulation under asymmetric information: prices versus quantities pp. 557-578

Leonardo J. Basso, Nicolás Figueroa and Jorge Vásquez

Hospital systems and bargaining power: evidence from out-of-market acquisitions pp. 579-610

Matthew Lewis and Kevin E. Pflum

Advertising, consumer awareness, and choice: evidence from the U.S. banking industry pp. 611-646

Elisabeth Honka, Ali Hortacsu and Maria Ana Vitorino

Auctions versus negotiations: the effects of inefficient renegotiation pp. 647-672

Fabian Herweg and Klaus Schmidt

Apple's agency model and the role of most-favored-nation clauses pp. 673-703

Øystein Foros, Hans Jarle Kind and Greg Shaffer

Optimal disclosure decisions when there are penalties for nondisclosure pp. 704-732

Ronald A. Dye

An offer you can't refuse: early contracting with endogenous threat pp. 733-748

Bruno Jullien, Jerome Pouyet and Wilfried Sand-Zantman

Energy efficiency and household behavior: the rebound effect in the residential sector pp. 749-782

Erdal Aydin, Nils Kok and Dirk Brounen

Agenda chasing and contests among news providers pp. 783-809

Zsolt Katona, Jonathan A. Knee and Miklos Sarvary

Mergers with interfirm bundling: a case of pharmaceutical cocktails pp. 810-834

Minjae Song, Sean Nicholson and Claudio Lucarelli

Interviewing in two-sided matching markets pp. 835-855

Robin Lee and Michael Schwarz

Demand for nondurable goods: a shortcut to estimating long-run price elasticities pp. 856-873

Helena Perrone

Volume 48, issue 2, 2017

The optimal allocation of decision and exit rights in organizations pp. 309-334

Helmut Bester and Daniel Krähmer

Relational contracting and endogenous formation of teamwork pp. 335-357

Akifumi Ishihara

A model of recommended retail prices pp. 358-386

Dmitry Lubensky

Raising search costs to deter window shopping can increase profits and welfare pp. 387-408

Greg Taylor

Estimating dynamic R&D choice: an analysis of costs and long-run benefits pp. 409-437

Bettina Peters, Mark Roberts, Vuong Van Anh and Helmut Fryges

Performance feedback in competitive product development pp. 438-466

Daniel Gross

Ad valorem platform fees, indirect taxes, and efficient price discrimination pp. 467-484

Zhu Wang and Julian Wright

How do nonprofits respond to negative wealth shocks? The impact of the 2008 stock market collapse on hospitals pp. 485-525

David Dranove, Craig Garthwaite and Christopher Ody

Costly search with adverse selection: solicitation curse versus acceleration blessing pp. 526-553

Kyungmin Kim and Marilyn Pease

Volume 48, issue 1, 2017

Resale price maintenance and manufacturer competition for retail services pp. 3-23

Matthias Hunold and Johannes Muthers

Investment in concealable information by biased experts pp. 24-43

Navin Kartik, Frances Xu Lee and Wing Suen

Mediated audits pp. 44-68

Martin Pollrich

Pass-through in a concentrated industry: empirical evidence and regulatory implications pp. 69-93

Nathan H. Miller, Matthew Osborne and Gloria Sheu

Optimal contracts for research agents pp. 94-124

Yaping Shan

Prices and heterogeneous search costs pp. 125-146

Jose Moraga-Gonzalez, Zsolt Sándor and Matthijs Wildenbeest

The impact of firm size on dynamic incentives and investment pp. 147-177

Chang Koo Chi and Kyoung Jin Choi

Can mergers increase output? Evidence from the lodging industry pp. 178-202

Arturs Kalnins, Luke Froeb and Steven Tschantz

Managing buzz pp. 203-229

Arthur Campbell, Dina Mayzlin and Jiwoong Shin

Collusion and heterogeneity of firms pp. 230-249

Ichiro Obara and Federico Zincenko

Provider performance reports and consumer welfare pp. 250-280

Henry Y. Mak

Dynamic limit pricing pp. 281-306

Flavio Toxvaerd