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Volume 44, issue 4, 2013

A model of flops pp. 585-609

Patrick Hummel, John Morgan and Phillip C. Stocken

Fear of rejection? Tiered certification and transparency pp. 610-631

Emmanuel Farhi, Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole

Incentives for experimenting agents pp. 632-663

Johannes Hörner and Larry Samuelson

On the asymptotic distribution of the transaction price in a clock model of a multi-unit, oral, ascending-price auction within the common-value paradigm pp. 664-685

Han Hong, Harry Paarsch and Pai Xu

Contracts offered by bureaucrats pp. 686-711

Fahad Khalil, Doyoung Kim and Jacques Lawarree

Unobserved heterogeneity and reserve prices in auctions pp. 712-732

James W. Roberts

Targeted search and the long tail effect pp. 733-756

Huanxing Yang

Patent pools and innovation in substitute technologies—evidence from the 19th-century sewing machine industry pp. 757-778

Ryan Lampe and Petra Moser

Volume 44, issue 3, 2013

Search costs, demand-side economies, and the incentives to merge under Bertrand competition pp. 391-424

Jose Moraga-Gonzalez and Vaiva Petrikaite

Inefficient sales delays by a durable-good monopoly facing a finite number of buyers pp. 425-437

Joao Montez

Theoretical and experimental investigations of the performance of keyword auction mechanisms pp. 438-461

Emiko Fukuda, Yoshio Kamijo, Ai Takeuchi, Michiharu Masui and Yukihiko Funaki

Entry, exit, and the determinants of market structure pp. 462-487

Timothy Dunne, Shawn Klimek, Mark Roberts and Yi Xu

China's land market auctions: evidence of corruption? pp. 488-521

Hongbin Cai, J. Vernon Henderson and Qinghua Zhang

Strategic information revelation when experts compete to influence pp. 522-544

Sourav Bhattacharya and Arijit Mukherjee

The impact of health information technology on hospital productivity pp. 545-568

Jinhyung Lee, Jeffrey S. McCullough and Robert Town

The effect of Internet distribution on brick-and-mortar sales pp. 569-583

Andrea Pozzi

Volume 44, issue 2, 2013

Estimating network economies in retail chains: a revealed preference approach pp. 169-193

Paul B. Ellickson, Stephanie Houghton and Christopher Timmins

“Upping the ante”: how to design efficient auctions with entry? pp. 194-214

Laurent Lamy

The impact of advertising regulation on industry: the cigarette advertising ban of 1971 pp. 215-248

Shi Qi

The impact of credit scoring on consumer lending pp. 249-274

Liran Einav, Mark Jenkins and Jonathan Levin

Trading and enforcing patent rights pp. 275-312

Alberto Galasso, Mark Schankerman and Carlos Serrano

Patent quality and incentives at the patent office pp. 313-336

Florian Schuett

Days on market and home sales pp. 337-360

Catherine Tucker, Juanjuan Zhang and Ting Zhu

Multidimensional heterogeneity and the economic importance of risk and matching: evidence from contractual data and field experiments pp. 361-389

Charles Bellemare and Bruce Shearer

Volume 44, issue 1, 2013

Mixed strategies in discriminatory divisible-good auctions pp. 1-32

Edward J. Anderson, Pär Holmberg and Andrew B. Philpott

Unobserved investment, endogenous quality, and trade pp. 33-55

Benjamin Hermalin

Public-private partnerships versus traditional procurement: Innovation incentives and information gathering pp. 56-74

Eva Hoppe and Patrick Schmitz

Does retailer power lead to exclusion? pp. 75-81

Patrick Rey and Michael Whinston

Search, bargaining, and signalling in the market for legal services pp. 82-103

Andrew Daughety and Jennifer Reinganum

Stairway to heaven or highway to hell: Liquidity, sweat equity, and the uncertain path to ownership pp. 104-127

R. Vijay Krishna, Giuseppe Lopomo and Curtis R. Taylor

Targeted advertising and advertising avoidance pp. 128-144

Justin P. Johnson

Internal control system, earnings quality, and the dynamics of financial reporting pp. 145-167

Iván Marinovic

Volume 43, issue 4, 2012

Who gets to the top? Generalists versus specialists in managerial organizations pp. 577-601

Daniel Ferreira and Raaj Sah

The economics of network neutrality pp. 602-629

Nicholas Economides and Benjamin Hermalin

When does a firm disclose product information? pp. 630-649

Frederic Koessler and Régis Renault

Optimal domestic regulation under asymmetric information and international trade: a simple general equilibrium approach pp. 650-676

David Martimort and Thierry Verdier

The market for lawyers and quality layers in legal services pp. 677-704

Elisabetta Iossa and Bruno Jullien

Measuring aggregate productivity growth using plant-level data pp. 705-725

Amil Petrin and James Levinsohn

Endogenous asymmetry in a dynamic procurement auction pp. 726-760

Viplav Saini

Why payment card fees are biased against retailers pp. 761-780

Julian Wright

Volume 43, issue 3, 2012

A theory of delegated search for the best alternative pp. 391-416

Tracy Lewis

A search cost model of obfuscation pp. 417-441

Glenn Ellison and Alexander Wolitzky

Risk allocation and the costs and benefits of public--private partnerships pp. 442-474

Elisabetta Iossa and David Martimort

Product markets and industry-specific training pp. 475-491

Hans Gersbach and Armin Schmutzler

Colluding through suppliers pp. 492-513

Salvatore Piccolo and Jeanine Miklós-Thal

Payoff uncertainty, bargaining power, and the strategic sequencing of bilateral negotiations pp. 514-536

Silvana Krasteva and Huseyin Yildirim

Price-cap regulation and the scale and timing of investment pp. 537-561

Lewis Evans and Graeme Guthrie

Endogenous market segmentation for lemons pp. 562-576

Kyungmin Kim

Volume 43, issue 2, 2012

The form of incentive contracts: agency with moral hazard, risk neutrality, and limited liability pp. 215-234

Joaquín Poblete and Daniel Spulber

Choosing the rules for consensus standardization pp. 235-252

Joseph Farrell and Timothy Simcoe

An approximate dynamic programming approach to solving dynamic oligopoly models pp. 253-282

Vivek Farias, Denis Saure and Gabriel Y. Weintraub

How much discretion for risk regulators? pp. 283-314

Yolande Hiriart and David Martimort

Consumer-surplus-enhancing collusion and trade pp. 315-328

George Deltas, Alberto Salvo and Helder Vasconcelos

Competition among the big and the small pp. 329-347

Ken-Ichi Shimomura and Jacques Thisse

The great industry gamble: market structure dynamics as a survival contest pp. 348-367

Áron Tóth

fines, leniency, and rewards in antitrust pp. 368-390

Maria Bigoni, Sven-Olof Fridolfsson, Chloe Le Coq and Giancarlo Spagnolo

Volume 43, issue 1, 2012

Competition for attention in the Information (overload) Age pp. 1-25

Simon Anderson and André de Palma

Vertical control of a distribution network—an empirical analysis of magazines pp. 26-50

Stijn Ferrari and Frank Verboven

Accidental death and the rule of joint and several liability pp. 51-77

Daniel Carvell, Janet Currie and W. Bentley Macleod

The role of demand information and monitoring in tacit collusion pp. 78-109

Christian Rojas

A Markov‐perfect equilibrium model of the impacts of price controls on the performance of the pharmaceutical industry pp. 110-138

Darren Filson

Demand shocks, capacity coordination, and industry performance: lessons from an economic laboratory pp. 139-166

Kyle Hampton and Katerina Sherstyuk

The effect of learning by hiring on productivity pp. 167-185

Pierpaolo Parrotta and Dario Pozzoli

New‐vehicle characteristics and the cost of the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard pp. 186-213

Thomas Klier and Joshua Linn