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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

Volume 39, issue 4, 2008

Contracting for information under imperfect commitment pp. 905-925

Vijay Krishna and John Morgan

Strategic judgment proofing pp. 926-948

Yeon-Koo Che and Kathryn E. Spier

Entry and regulation: evidence from health care professions pp. 949-972

Catherine Schaumans and Frank Verboven

Communicating quality: a unified model of disclosure and signalling pp. 973-989

Andrew Daughety and Jennifer Reinganum

Production targets pp. 990-1017

Guillermo Caruana and Liran Einav

Bidding rings and the winner's curse pp. 1018-1041

Ken Hendricks, Robert Porter and Guofu Tan

Price‐increasing competition pp. 1042-1058

Yongmin Chen and Michael Riordan

Specific knowledge and performance measurement pp. 1059-1079

Michael Raith

Trade costs and multimarket collusion pp. 1080-1104

Eric Bond and Constantinos Syropoulos

Entrepreneurs and new ideas pp. 1105-1125

Bruno Biais and Enrico Perotti

Volume 39, issue 3, 2008

Academic freedom, private‐sector focus, and the process of innovation pp. 617-635

Philippe Aghion, Mathias Dewatripont and Jeremy C. Stein

What changes energy consumption? Prices and public pressures pp. 636-663

Peter C. Reiss and Matthew W. White

Delegation and incentives pp. 664-682

Helmut Bester and Daniel Krähmer

Illinois Walls: how barring indirect purchaser suits facilitates collusion pp. 683-698

Maarten Pieter Schinkel, Jan Tuinstra and Jakob Rüggeberg

Quantifying the benefits of entry into local phone service pp. 699-730

Nicholas Economides, Katja Seim and V. Viard

An optimal auction with identity‐dependent externalities pp. 731-746

Jorge Aseff and Hector Chade

Differentiated networks: equilibrium and efficiency pp. 747-769

Rossella Argenziano

Buy‐out prices in auctions: seller competition and multi‐unit demands pp. 770-789

Rene Kirkegaard and Per Overgaard

Do report cards tell consumers anything they don't already know? The case of Medicare HMOs pp. 790-821

Leemore Dafny and David Dranove

A retail benchmarking approach to efficient two‐way access pricing: no termination‐based price discrimination† pp. 822-849

Doh-Shin Jeon and Sjaak Hurkens

Takeovers, market monitoring, and international corporate governance pp. 850-874

Praveen Kumar and Latha Ramchand

Domestic airline alliances and consumer welfare pp. 875-904

Olivier Armantier and Oliver Richard

Volume 39, issue 2, 2008

A theory of factor allocation and plant size pp. 329-351

Thomas Holmes and Matthew Mitchell

Costly contracting in a long‐term relationship pp. 352-377

Pierpaolo Battigalli and Giovanni Maggi

Parallel imports and price controls pp. 378-402

Gene M. Grossman and Edwin Lai

Incentives and invention in universities pp. 403-433

Saul Lach and Mark Schankerman

Optimal rewards in contests pp. 434-451

Chen Cohen, Todd Kaplan and Aner Sela

Durable goods and conformity pp. 452-468

Christopher House and Emre Ozdenoren

Sustaining implicit contracts when agents have career concerns: the role of information disclosure pp. 469-490

Arijit Mukherjee

Information feedback in first price auctions pp. 491-508

Ignacio Esponda

Learning by bidding pp. 509-529

Tanjim Hossain

Durable goods and residential demand for energy and water: evidence from a field trial pp. 530-546

Lucas Davis

Search with learning: understanding asymmetric price adjustments pp. 547-564

Huanxing Yang and Lixin Ye

Work‐related perks, agency problems, and optimal incentive contracts pp. 565-585

Anthony Marino and Jan Zabojnik

Short‐term fluctuations in hospital demand: implications for admission, discharge, and discriminatory behavior pp. 586-606

Rajiv Sharma, Miron Stano and Renu Gehring

Laboratory evidence on the effectiveness of corporate leniency programs pp. 607-616

Jeroen Hinloopen and Adriaan Soetevent

Volume 39, issue 1, 2008

Imperfect durability and the Coase conjecture pp. 1-19

Raymond Deneckere and Meng‐Yu Liang

Rules of proof, courts, and incentives pp. 20-40

Dominique Demougin and Claude Fluet

Industry dynamics with stochastic demand pp. 41-68

James Bergin and Dan Bernhardt

Properties of scoring auctions pp. 69-85

John Asker and Estelle Cantillon

Understanding strategic bidding in multi‐unit auctions: a case study of the Texas electricity spot market pp. 86-114

Ali Hortacsu and Steven Puller

Retailers' choice of product variety and exclusive dealing under asymmetric information pp. 115-143

Yaron Yehezkel

Can cost increases increase competition? Asymmetric information and equilibrium prices pp. 144-162

Giovanni Dell'ariccia and Robert Marquez

Imperfect competition and quality signalling pp. 163-183

Andrew Daughety and Jennifer Reinganum

Efficient partnership dissolution under buy‐sell clauses pp. 184-198

Maria-Angeles de Frutos and Thomas Kittsteiner

Single sourcing versus multiple sourcing pp. 199-213

Roman Inderst

Market forces meet behavioral biases: cost misallocation and irrational pricing pp. 214-237

Nabil Al‐Najjar, Sandeep Baliga and David Besanko

The value of information and optimal organization pp. 238-265

Sergei Severinov

Information and bargaining in the hold‐up problem pp. 266-282

Stephanie Lau

Optimal choice of characteristics for a nonexcludable good pp. 283-304

Isabelle Brocas

Status and incentives pp. 305-326

Emmanuelle Auriol and Régis Renault