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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

Volume 47, issue 4, 2016

Dynamic auction environment with subcontracting pp. 751-791

Przemyslaw Jeziorski and Elena Krasnokutskaya

Preferences, entry, and market structure pp. 792-821

Paolo Bertoletti and Federico Etro

No news is good news: voluntary disclosure in the face of litigation pp. 822-856

Iván Marinovic and Felipe Varas

Regulation and welfare: evidence from paragraph IV generic entry in the pharmaceutical industry pp. 857-890

Lee Branstetter, Chirantan Chatterjee and Matthew Higgins

Passive vertical integration and strategic delegation pp. 891-913

Matthias Hunold and Konrad Stahl

Procurement under public scrutiny: auctions versus negotiations pp. 914-934

Vitali Gretschko and Achim Wambach

Information acquisition, referral, and organization pp. 935-960

Simona Grassi and Ching-to Ma

Horizontal mergers and divestment dynamics in a sunset industry pp. 961-997

Masato Nishiwaki

The welfare cost of unpriced heterogeneity in insurance markets pp. 998-1028

Valentino Dardanoni and Paolo Donni

Push-me pull-you: comparative advertising in the OTC analgesics industry pp. 1029-1056

Simon Anderson, Federico Ciliberto, Jura Liaukonyte and Régis Renault

Understanding in-house transactions in the real estate brokerage industry pp. 1057-1086

Lu Han and Seung-Hyun Hong

Volume 47, issue 3, 2016

Optimal product variety in radio markets pp. 463-497

Steven Berry, Alon Eizenberg and Joel Waldfogel

Optimal public funding for research: a theoretical analysis pp. 498-528

Gianni De Fraja

Diversification of geographic risk in retail bank networks: evidence from bank expansion after the Riegle-Neal Act pp. 529-572

Victor Aguirregabiria, Robert Clark and Hui Wang

The optimal extent of discovery pp. 573-607

Frances Z. Xu Lee and Dan Bernhardt

Demand or productivity: what determines firm growth? pp. 608-630

Andrea Pozzi and Fabiano Schivardi

Nonlinear pricing and exclusion:II. Must-stock products pp. 631-660

Philippe Choné and Laurent Linnemer

Procurement with specialized firms pp. 661-687

Jan Boone and Christoph Schottmüller

Employee referrals as a screening device pp. 688-708

Emre Ekinci

Selling substitute goods to loss-averse consumers: limited availability, bargains, and rip-offs pp. 709-733

Antonio Rosato

Deterring fraud by looking away pp. 734-747

Deniz Okat

Volume 47, issue 2, 2016

The formation of financial networks pp. 239-272

Ana Babus

Competition in the presence of individual demand uncertainty pp. 273-292

Marc Möller and Makoto Watanabe

Explaining adoption and use of payment instruments by US consumers pp. 293-325

Sergei Koulayev, Marc Rysman, Scott Schuh and Joanna Stavins

Welfare-increasing third-degree price discrimination pp. 326-340

Simon Cowan

Spinoffs and clustering pp. 341-365

Russell Golman and Steven Klepper

Measuring consumer switching costs in the television industry pp. 366-393

Oleksandr Shcherbakov

An empirical study of observational learning pp. 394-432

Peter Newberry

The road not taken: competition and the R&D portfolio pp. 433-460

Igor Letina

Volume 47, issue 1, 2016

Relational contracts with subjective peer evaluations pp. 3-28

Joyee Deb, Jin Li and Arijit Mukherjee

Cross-selling in the US home video industry pp. 29-47

Luis Cabral and Gabriel Natividad

Online advertising and privacy pp. 48-72

Alexandre de Cornière and Romain de Nijs

Ex post unbalanced tournaments pp. 73-98

Lorens Imhof and Matthias Kräkel

Price competition and reputation in markets for experience goods: an experimental study pp. 99-117

Steffen Huck, Gabriele K. Lünser and Jean-Robert Tyran

Nonparametric identification and estimation of random coefficients in multinomial choice models pp. 118-139

Jeremy Fox and Amit Gandhi

Performance responses to competition across skill levels in rank-order tournaments: field evidence and implications for tournament design pp. 140-165

Kevin Boudreau, Karim R. Lakhani and Michael Menietti

Project selection and execution in teams pp. 166-185

Jordi Blanes i Vidal and Marc Möller

When do auctions ensure the welfare-maximizing allocation of scarce inputs? pp. 186-206

John Mayo and David Sappington

Health information technology and patient outcomes: the role of information and labor coordination pp. 207-236

Jeffrey S. McCullough, Stephen T. Parente and Robert Town