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Volume 41, issue 4, 2010

On the origin of shared beliefs (and corporate culture) pp. 617-648

Eric Van den Steen

Trigger happy or gun shy? Dissolving common‐value partnerships with Texas shootouts pp. 649-673

Richard R. W. Brooks, Claudia Landeo and Kathryn E. Spier

Dynamic pricing: when to entice brand switching and when to reward consumer loyalty pp. 674-685

Yongmin Chen and Jason Pearcy

The dynamics of the transfer and renewal of patents pp. 686-708

Carlos Serrano

Market‐share contracts as facilitating practices pp. 709-729

Roman Inderst and Greg Shaffer

The effect of satellite entry on cable television prices and product quality pp. 730-764

Chenghuan Sean Chu

Does vertical integration affect firm performance? Evidence from the airline industry pp. 765-790

Silke Forbes and Mara Lederman

Do Americans consume too little natural gas? An empirical test of marginal cost pricing pp. 791-810

Lucas Davis and Erich Muehlegger

Specialization and matching in professional services firms pp. 811-834

Andrew J. Epstein, Jonathan Ketcham and Sean Nicholson

Volume 41, issue 3, 2010

State dependence and alternative explanations for consumer inertia pp. 417-445

Jean‐Pierre Dubé, Günter J. Hitsch and Peter Rossi

Net neutrality and investment incentives pp. 446-471

Jay Choi and Byung-Cheol Kim

Patent thickets, courts, and the market for innovation pp. 472-503

Alberto Galasso and Mark Schankerman

Transparency and incentives among peers pp. 504-523

Eyal Winter

Competition for scarce resources pp. 524-548

Péter Eső, Volker Nocke and Lucy White

The optimal disclosure policy when firms offer implicit contracts pp. 549-573

Arijit Mukherjee

Monopolistic screening under learning by doing pp. 574-597

Dennis Gärtner

Information and delay in an agency model pp. 598-615

Mikhail Drugov

Volume 41, issue 2, 2010

Computable Markov‐perfect industry dynamics pp. 215-243

Ulrich Doraszelski and Mark Satterthwaite

Contracting with private knowledge of signal quality pp. 244-269

Leon Yang Chu and David Sappington

Shareholder access to manager‐biased courts and the monitoring/litigation trade‐off pp. 270-300

Sergey Stepanov

Standard promotion practices versus up‐or‐out contracts pp. 301-325

Suman Ghosh and Michael Waldman

Inferring market power under the threat of entry: the case of the Brazilian cement industry pp. 326-350

Alberto Salvo

Natural concentration in industrial research collaboration pp. 351-371

Bastian Westbrock

The effects of mergers on product positioning: evidence from the music radio industry pp. 372-397

Andrew Sweeting

The benefits of a right to silence for the innocent pp. 398-416

Shmuel Leshem

Volume 41, issue 1, 2010

Procurement when price and quality matter pp. 1-34

John Asker and Estelle Cantillon

Leadership based on asymmetric information pp. 35-63

Mana Komai and Mark Stegeman

Can you get what you pay for? Pay‐for‐performance and the quality of healthcare providers pp. 64-91

Kathleen Mullen, Richard G. Frank and Meredith B. Rosenthal

Endogenous cartel formation with heterogeneous firms pp. 92-117

Iwan Bos and Joseph E. Harrington, Jr

On the benefits of allowing CEOs to time their stock option exercises pp. 118-138

Volker Laux

Inference on vertical contracts between manufacturers and retailers allowing for nonlinear pricing and resale price maintenance pp. 139-164

Céline Bonnet and Pierre Dubois

First‐price auctions with resale and with outcomes robust to bid disclosure pp. 165-178

Bernard Lebrun

Bribery versus extortion: allowing the lesser of two evils pp. 179-198

Fahad Khalil, Jacques Lawarree and Sungho Yun

Experts and quacks pp. 199-214

Jeremy Sandford

Volume 40, issue 4, 2009

Efficiency out of disorder: Contested ownership in incomplete contracts pp. 597-610

Kurt Annen

Sequential innovation, patents, and imitation pp. 611-635

James Bessen and Eric Maskin

Credible discovery, settlement, and negative expected value suits pp. 636-657

Warren F. Schwartz and Abraham L. Wickelgren

Market power, price discrimination, and allocative efficiency in intermediate‐goods markets pp. 658-672

Roman Inderst and Greg Shaffer

Rockets and feathers: Understanding asymmetric pricing pp. 673-687

Mariano Tappata

Information congestion pp. 688-709

Simon Anderson and André de Palma

The strategic timing incentives of commercial radio stations: An empirical analysis using multiple equilibria pp. 710-742

Andrew Sweeting

Competition among contests pp. 743-768

Ghazala Azmat and Marc Möller

Volume 40, issue 3, 2009

Information and the hold‐up problem pp. 405-423

Benjamin Hermalin and Michael Katz

A welfare analysis of spectrum allocation policies pp. 424-454

Thomas Hazlett and Roberto E. Muñoz

Avoiding market dominance: product compatibility in markets with network effects pp. 455-485

Jiawei Chen, Ulrich Doraszelski and Joseph E. Harrington, Jr.

Liability insurance under the negligence rule pp. 486-508

Marie-Cecile Fagart and Claude Fluet

Influencing the influencers: a theory of strategic diffusion pp. 509-532

Andrea Galeotti and Sanjeev Goyal

Contracting in the shadow of the law pp. 533-557

Surajeet Chakravarty and W. Bentley Macleod

Comparative advertising: disclosing horizontal match information pp. 558-581

Simon Anderson and Régis Renault

Do retail gasoline prices respond asymmetrically to cost shocks? The influence of Edgeworth Cycles pp. 582-595

Michael Noel

Volume 40, issue 2, 2009

Prominence and consumer search pp. 209-233

Mark Armstrong, John Vickers and Jidong Zhou

The ownership of ratings pp. 234-257

Antoine Faure‐Grimaud, Eloïc Peyrache and Lucía Quesada

Endogenous preferential treatment in centralized admissions pp. 258-282

Y. Chiu and Weiwei Weng

Preferred suppliers in auction markets pp. 283-295

Roberto Burguet and Martin K. Perry

Implementing high‐powered contracts to motivate intertemporal effort supply pp. 296-316

Leon Yang Chu and David Sappington

Bargaining with imperfect enforcement pp. 317-339

Lucy White and Mark Williams

Firm reputation and horizontal integration pp. 340-363

Hongbin Cai and Ichiro Obara

Negotiating contract types and contract clauses in the German construction industry during the Third Reich pp. 364-379

Jochen Streb

Task assignments and incentives: generalists versus specialists pp. 380-403

Suraj Prasad

Volume 40, issue 1, 2009

Price discrimination in input markets pp. 1-19

Roman Inderst and Tommaso Valletti

An empirical investigation of the welfare effects of banning wholesale price discrimination pp. 20-46

Sofia Berto Villas‐Boas

Managerial hedging, equity ownership, and firm value pp. 47-77

Viral Acharya and Alberto Bisin

Market participation in delegated and intrinsic common‐agency games pp. 78-102

David Martimort and Lars Stole

Efficient tournaments within teams pp. 103-119

Alex Gershkov, Jianpei Li and Paul Schweinzer

Vertical restraints and horizontal control pp. 120-143

Robert Innes and Stephen Hamilton

Corporate fraud and investment distortions in efficient capital markets pp. 144-172

Praveen Kumar and Nisan Langberg

Costly participation and heterogeneous preferences in informational committees pp. 173-189

Hongbin Cai

Coordination and delay in hierarchies pp. 190-208

Andrea Patacconi