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Volume 42, issue 4, 2011

Exclusive contracts and demand foreclosure pp. 619-638

David Spector

Sequential location games pp. 639-663

Simon Loertscher and Gerd Muehlheusser

Prizes and lemons: procurement of innovation under imperfect commitment pp. 664-680

Wei Ding and Elmar Wolfstetter

Consumer search and dynamic price dispersion: an application to gasoline markets pp. 681-704

Ambarish Chandra and Mariano Tappata

Moral hazard, hold‐up, and the optimal allocation of control rights pp. 705-728

Vijay Yerramilli

An empirical model of search with vertically differentiated products pp. 729-757

Matthijs Wildenbeest

Rewarding improvements: optimal dynamic contracts with subjective evaluation pp. 758-775

Jimmy Chan and Bingyong Zheng

Demand spillovers and market outcomes in the mutual fund industry pp. 776-804

Alessandro Gavazza

Volume 42, issue 3, 2011

Targeting in advertising markets: implications for offline versus online media pp. 417-443

Dirk Bergemann and Alessandro Bonatti

Oligopolistic markets with sequential search and production cost uncertainty pp. 444-470

Maarten Janssen, Paul Pichler and Simon Weidenholzer

A dynamic model of lawsuit joinder and settlement pp. 471-494

Andrew Daughety and Jennifer Reinganum

Optimal information transmission in a holdup problem pp. 495-526

Maria Goltsman

Incentives and creativity: evidence from the academic life sciences pp. 527-554

Pierre Azoulay, Joshua Graff Zivin and Gustavo Manso

Secondary markets with changing preferences pp. 555-574

Justin P. Johnson

The roles of reputation and transparency on the behavior of biased experts pp. 575-594

Sylvain Bourjade and Bruno Jullien

Disclosure standards for vertical contracts pp. 595-617

Anil Arya and Brian Mittendorf

Volume 42, issue 2, 2011

Advertising, the matchmaker pp. 205-245

Bharat Anand and Ron Shachar

Dynamic regulation of quality pp. 246-265

Stéphane Auray, Thomas Mariotti and Fabien Moizeau

Automobile replacement: a dynamic structural approach pp. 266-291

Pasquale Schiraldi

Regulatory enforcement with competitive endogenous audit mechanisms pp. 292-312

Scott Gilpatric, Christian Vossler and Michael McKee

Auctions with heterogeneous entry costs pp. 313-336

Diego Moreno and John Wooders

Why do intermediaries divert search? pp. 337-362

Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien

Interconnection among academic journal websites: multilateral versus bilateral interconnection pp. 363-386

Doh-Shin Jeon and Domenico Menicucci

Paying for observable luck pp. 387-415

Fabio Feriozzi

Volume 42, issue 1, 2011

Entry and pricing in a differentiated products industry: evidence from the ATM market pp. 1-22

Gautam Gowrisankaran and John Krainer

Competition, cooperation, and corporate culture pp. 23-43

Michael Kosfeld and Ferdinand von Siemens

Optimal job design in the presence of implicit contracts pp. 44-69

Arijit Mukherjee and Luis Vasconcelos

Direct and indirect knowledge spillovers: the “social network” of open‐source projects pp. 70-91

Chaim Fershtman and Neil Gandal

Directed matching with endogenous Markov probability: clients or competitors? pp. 92-120

Emanuela Ciapanna

Inventories and the automobile market pp. 121-149

Adam Copeland, Wendy Dunn and George Hall

Can herding improve investment decisions? pp. 150-174

Naveen Khanna and Richmond D. Mathews

Bounds on revenue distributions in counterfactual auctions with reserve prices pp. 175-203

Xun Tang

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