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Summer 1992, Volume 23, Issue 2
- 247-262 Is Hospital Competition Wasteful?
by David Dranove & Mark Shanley & Carol Simon - 263-283 Agency Theory and Franchising: Some Empirical Results
by Francine Lafontaine - 284-298 Innovation, Firm Size and Growth in a Centralized Organization
by Sharon Gifford
Spring 1992, Volume 23, Issue 1
- 1-19 Strategic Nonlinear Pricing under Price-Cap Regulation
by David E.M. Sappington & David S. Sibley - 20-28 Renegotiating Incomplete Contracts
by Ed Nosal - 29-51 Trigger Price Regulation
by David J. Salant & Glenn A. Woroch - 52-63 Patent Policy and Costly Imitation
by Nancy T. Gallini - 64-85 Delivered Pricing, FOB Pricing, and Collusion in Spatial Markets
by Maria Paz Espinosa - 86-105 Bank Financing and Investment Decisions with Asymmetric Information about Loan Quality
by Deborah J. Lucas & Robert L. McDonald - 106-122 Insider Trading and the Efficiency of Stock Prices
by Michael J. Fishman & Kathleen M. Hagerty - 123-133 The Effects of Horizontal Mergers on Competition: The Case of the Northern Securities Company
by Robin A. Prager - 137-152 Sutton's Sunk Costs and Market Structure: Price Competition, Advertising, and the Evolution of Concentration
by Timothy F. Bresnahan
Winter 1991, Volume 22, Issue 4
- 455-476 Tax Policy and the Dividend Puzzle
by B. Douglas Berhheim - 477-489 Contractual Design with Correlated Information under Limited Liability
by Dominique M. Demougin & Devon A. Garvie - 490-504 Minimum Quality Standards, Fixed Costs, and Competition
by Uri Ronnen - 505-518 Using the Capital Market as a Monitor: Corporate Spinoffs in an Agency Framework
by Debra J. Aron - 519-530 Dynamic Price Competition, Briefly Sunk Costs, and Entry Deterrence
by Sally M. Davies - 531-543 Credible Spatial Preemption through Franchising
by Gillian K. Hadfield - 544-561 Targeted Repurchases and Common Stock Returns
by Wayne H. Mikkelson & Richard S. Ruback - 562-570 Decoupling Liability: Optimal Incentives for Care and Litigation
by A. Mitchell Polinsky & Yeon-Koo Che - 571-581 Welfare Effects of Price Discrimination by a Regulated Monopolist
by Mark Armstrong & John Vickers - 581-595 Regulation with 20-20 Hindsight: "Heads I Win, Tails You Lose"?
by Thomas P. Lyon - 596-610 Dynamic R&D Competition under "Hazard Rate" Uncertainty
by Jay P. Choi
Autumn 1991, Volume 22, Issue 3
- 307-328 Game-Playing Agents: Unobservable Contracts as Precommitments
by Michael L. Katz - 329-338 The Contractors' Game
by Kevin Lang & Robert W. Rosenthal - 339-353 The Probability of Exit
by Martha A. Schary - 354-369 Selling Costs and Switching Costs: Explaining Retail Gasoline Margins
by Severin Borenstein - 370-384 Incentives for Monitoring Quality
by Tracy R. Lewis & David E.M. Sappington - 385-395 Reasonable Doubt and the Optimal Magnitude of Fines: Should the Penalty Fit the Crime?
by James Andreoni - 396-410 Demand, Pricing, and Regulation: Evidence from the Cable TV Industry
by John W. Mayo & Yasuji Otsuka - 411-429 Research and Development with Asymmetric Firm Sizes
by Richard J. Rosen - 430-445 The Supply of Charity Services by Nonprofit Hospitals: Motives and Market Structure
by Richard G. Frank & David S. Salkever - 446-453 The Role of Multiple Potential Entrants/Sequential Entry in Noncooperative Entry Deterrence
by Michael Waldman
Summer 1991, Volume 22, Issue 2
- 155-172 Oligopoly Limit Pricing
by Kyle Bagwell & Garey Ramey - 173-198 Communication in Settings with No. Transfers
by Nahum D. Melumad & Toshiyuki Shibano - 199-217 Medical Malpractice: An Empirical Examination of the Litigation Process
by Henry S. Farber & Michelle J. White - 218-231 Uncertain Litigation and Liability Insurance
by Bharat Sarath - 232-240 Resolving Double Moral Hazard Problems with Buyout Agreements
by Joel S. Demski & David E.M. Sappington - 241-249 Some Simple Analytics of Peak-Load Pricing
by Ted Bergstrom & Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason - 250-263 Exit Strategies and Plant-Closing Decisions: The Case of Steel
by Mary E. Deily - 264-273 Pricing in a Deregulated Environment: The Motor Carrier Experience
by John S. Ying & Theodore E. Keeler - 274-286 A Common Agency with Incomplete Information
by Esther Gal-Or - 287-306 Endogenous Availability in Search Equilibrium
by Andrew F. Daughety & Jennifer F. Reinganum
Spring 1991, Volume 22, Issue 1
- 14-35 An Econometric Analysis of Income Tax Evasion and its Detection
by Jonathan S. Feinstein - 36-53 The Interaction between Forms of Insurance Contract and Types of Technical Change in Medical Care
by James R. Baumgardner - 54-71 Noise Trading and Takeovers
by Albert S. Kyle & Jean-Luc Vila - 72-88 Share Repurchase and Takeover Deterrence
by Laurie Simon Bagwell - 89-106 The Impact of Cyclical Demand Movements on Collusive Behavior
by John Haltiwanger & Joseph E. Harrington Jr. - 107-119 When More is Less: Defense Profit Policy in a Competitive Environment
by Anthony G. Bower & Kent Osband - 120-135 Slotting Allowances and Resale Price Maintenance: A Comparison of Facilitating Practices
by Greg Shaffer - 136-147 Contestability in the Presence of an Alternate Market: An Experimental Examination
by Jamie L. Brown-Kruse - 148-154 Costs of Nuclear Power Plant Construction: Theory and New Evidence
by John M. Marshall & Peter Navarro
Winter 1990, Volume 21, Issue 4
- 497-517 Regulation and Firm Size: FDA Impacts on Innovation
by Lacy Glenn Thomas - 518-537 Your Terms or Mine? The Duty to Read the Fine Print in Contracts
by Avery Katz - 538-554 Exit from Declining Industries: "Shakeout" or "Stakeout"?
by Marvin B. Lieberman - 555-566 Capacity Expansion and the Size of Plants
by David E. Mills - 567-583 Market Conduct in the Airline Industry: An Empirical Investigation
by James A. Brander & Anming Zhang - 584-599 Contestability in Real-Time Experimental Flow Markets
by Edward L. Millner & Michael D. Pratt & Robert J. Reilly - 600-613 Reversions of Excess Pension Assets after Takeovers
by Jeffrey Pontiff & Andrei Shleifer & Michael S. Weisbach - 614-625 Antitakeover Measures, Golden Parachutes, and Target Firm Shareholder Welfare
by Ellie G. Harris - 626-634 Bankruptcy and Care Choice
by T. Randolph Beard
Autumn 1990, Volume 21, Issue 3
- 341-353 Avoidance, Screening and Optimum Enforcement
by Arun S. Malik - 354-373 The Diffusion of New Technologies: Evidence from the Electric Utility Industry
by Nancy L. Rose & Paul L. Joskow - 374-387 Auditor Reputation: The Impact of Critical Reports Issued by Government Inspectors
by Michael Firth - 388-408 The Equivalence of Lending Equilibria and Signalling-Based Insurance under Asymmetric Information
by Bart Taub - 409-430 Trade Association Disclosure Rules, Incentives to Share Information, and Welfare
by Xavier Vives - 431-445 The Long-Run Effects of a Time-of-Use Demand Charge
by Thomas N. Taylor & Peter M. Schwarz - 446-458 Entry and Exit over the Industry Life Cycle
by John Londregan - 459-480 Information, Advertising and Health Choices: A Study of the Cereal Market
by Pauline M. Ippolito & Alan D. Mathios - 481-496 What Occupational Safety Tells Us about Political Power in Union Firms
by Shulamit Kahn
Summer 1990, Volume 21, Issue 2
- 189-210 The Economic Incidence of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of the Short-Haul Pricing Constraint
by Thomas W. Gilligan & William J. Marshall & Barry R. Weingast - 211-225 Firm Behavior in Franchise Monopoly Markets
by Robin A. Prager - 226-234 Market Power of Local Cable Television Franchises: Evidence from the Effects of Deregulation
by Adam B. Jaffe & David M. Kanter - 235-246 The Impact of Advertising and Other Factors on Referral Practices, with Special Reference to Lawyers
by Stephen J. Spurr - 249-250 Symposium in Honor of Alvin K. Klevorick
by Jerry A. Hausman - 251-274 The Performance of Long-Term Contracts: Further Evidence from Coal Markets
by Paul L. Joskow - 275-292 Asset Ownership and Market Structure in Oligopoly
by Joseph Farrell & Carl Shapiro - 293-313 Predicting Committee Behavior in Majority Rule Voting Experiments
by Stephen W. Salant & Eban Goodstein - 314-340 Environmental Regulation and U.S. Economic Growth
by Dale W. Jorgenson & Peter J. Wilcoxen
Spring 1990, Volume 21, Issue 1
- 1-26 Multimarket Contact and Collusive Behavior
by B. Douglas Bernheim & Michael D. Whinston - 27-44 The Evolution of New Industries and the Determinants of Market Structure
by Steven Klepper & Elizabeth Graddy - 45-62 Multiproduct Firms and Market Structure
by Avner Shaked & John Sutton - 63-71 Entry Deterrence in a Finitely-Lived Industry
by Arthur Fishman - 72-82 Regulation by Price Adjustment
by James Hagerman - 83-99 The Role of Installment Payments in Contracts for Services
by Tom K. Lee & I.P.L. Png - 103-105 Symposium on Patents and Technology Licensing
by Garth Saloner - 106-112 Optimal Patent Length and Breadth
by Richard Gilbert & Carl Shapiro - 113-130 How Broad Should the Scope of Patent Protection Be?
by Paul Klemperer - 131-146 Novelty and Disclosure in Patent Law
by Suzanne Scotchmer & Jerry Green - 147-160 Technology Transfer under Asymmetric Information
by Nancy T. Gallini & Brian D. Wright - 161-171 Choosing the Competition and Patent Licensing
by Katharine E. Rockett - 172-187 A Penny for Your Quotes: Patent Citations and the Value of Innovations
by Manuel Trajtenberg
Winter 1989, Volume 20, Issue 4
- 473-482 Cable Franchise Renewals: Do Incumbent Firms Behave Opportunistically?
by Mark A. Zupan - 483-498 Testing for Expense Preference Behavior: Mutual versus Stock Savings and Loans
by Loretta J. Mester - 499-515 Promoting Safety through Workers' Compensation: The Efficacy and Net Wage Costs of Injury Insurance
by Michael J. Moore & W. Kip Viscusi - 516-537 Price Competition in Multimarket Duopolies
by Rajiv Lal & Carmen Matutes - 538-552 Split Awards, Procurement, and Innovation
by James J. Anton & Dennis A. Yao - 553-567 Bertrand Competition with Subcontracting
by Morton I. Kamien & Lode Li & Dov Samet - 568-587 Communication in the Battle of the Sexes Game: Some Experimental Results
by Russell Cooper & Douglas V. DeJong & Robert Forsythe & Thomas W. Ross - 588-600 A Comparison of Hospital Responses to Reimbursement Policies for Medicaid Psychiatric Patients
by Richard G. Frank & Judith R. Lave - 601-621 Markets for Experience Goods with Performance Uncertainty
by Julia Liebeskind & Richard P. Rumelt - 622-636 Increasing Returns and Strategic Behavior: The Worker-Firm Ratio
by Spyros Vassilaikis - 637-645 Efficiency in Hierarchies: Implementing the First-Best Solution by Sequential Actions
by Anindya Banerjee & Alan Beggs
Autumn 1989, Volume 20, Issue 3
- 291-307 Tripartite Income-Employment Contracts and Coalition Incentive Compatibility
by Murray Brown & Elmar Wolfstetter - 308-330 An Empirical Test of the Comparative and Contributory Negligence Rules in Accident Law
by Michelle J. White - 331-343 The Learning Curve and Optimal Production under Uncertainty
by Saman Majd & Robert S. Pindyck - 344-365 Hubs and High Fares: Dominance and Market Power in the U.S. Airline Industry
by Severin Borenstein - 369-372 Introduction
by Jan Paul Acton & Ingo Vogelsang - 373-391 Diversification Incentives under "Price-Based" and "Cost-Based" Regulation
by Ronald R. Braeutigam & John C. Panzar - 392-404 Asymmetric Information, Incentives and Price-Cap Regulation
by David Sibley - 405-416 Regulatory Options and Price-Cap Regulation
by Tracy R. Lewis & David E.M. Sappington - 417-436 Good Regulatory Regimes
by Richard Schmalensee - 437-453 The Impact of Alternative Forms of State Regulation of AT&T on Direct-Dial, Long-Distance Telephone Rates
by Alan D. Mathios & Robert P. Rogers - 454-472 The Regulation of Privatized Monopolies in the United Kingdom
by M.E. Beesley & S.C. Littlechild
Summer 1989, Volume 20, Issue 2
- 139-163 Delegation as Commitment: The Case of Income Tax Audits
by Nahum D. Melumad & Dilip Mookherjee - 164-182 Asymmetric Information, Information Externalities, and Efficiency: The Case of Oil Exploration
by Kenneth Hendricks & Dan Kovenock - 183-195 Sharing of Information Prior to Settlement or Litigation
by Steven Shavell - 196-213 Noisy Juries and the Choice of Trial Mode in a Sequential Signalling Game: Theory and Evidence
by Gerald D. Gay & Martin F. Grace & Jayant R. Kale & Thomas H. Noe - 214-238 Theories and Tests of "Blind Bidding" in Sealed-Bid Auctions
by Robert Forsythe & R. Mark Isaac & Thomas R. Palfrey - 239-255 Warranties as Signals under Consumer Moral Hazard
by Nancy A. Lutz - 256-267 A Renegotiation-Proof Mechanism for a Principal-Agent Model with Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection
by Dominique M. Demougin - 268-279 Resolving Uncertainty about the Number of Bidders in Independent Private-Value Auctions: An Experimental Analysis
by Douglas Dyer & John H. Kagel & Dan Levin - 280-290 Using Stock Price Data to Measure the Effects of Regulation: The Interstate Commerce Act and the Railroad Industry
by Robin A. Prager
Spring 1989, Volume 20, Issue 1
- 1-25 Allocating Uncertain and Unresponsive Resources: An Experimental Approach
by Jeffrey S. Banks & John O. Ledyard & David P. Porter - 26-40 Financial Signalling and the "Deep-Pocket" Argument
by Michel Poitevin - 41-58 Second Sourcing
by Michael H. Riordan & David E.M. Sappington - 59-76 Competition within the Firm: Theory Plus Some Evidence from Medical Group Practice
by Martin Gaynor - 77-91 The Settlement of Patent Litigation
by Michael J. Meurer - 92-101 Damage Measures and Incomplete Contracts
by Jim Leitzel - 102-112 Multiple Signals, Statistical Sufficiency, and Pareto Orderings of Best Agency Contracts
by Amin H. Amershi & John S. Hughes - 113-124 Games Economists Play: A Noncooperative View
by Franklin M. Fisher - 125-137 The Theory of Business Strategy
by Carl Shapiro
Winter 1988, Volume 19, Issue 4
- 495-515 Patterns of Firm Entry and Exit in U.S. Manufacturing Industries
by Timothy Dunne & Mark J. Roberts & Larry Samuelson - 516-537 Repeated Auctions of Incentive Contracts, Investment, and Bidding Parity with an Application to Takeovers
by Jean-Jacques Laffont & Jean Tirole - 538-556 Cost-Reducing and Demand-Creating R&D with Spillovers
by Richard C. Levin & Peter C. Reiss - 557-567 State Regulation of Takeovers and Shareholder Wealth: The Case of New York's 1985 Takeover Statutes
by Laurence Schumann - 568-588 Exit with Multiplant Firms
by Michael D. Whinston - 589-606 The Determinants of Board Composition
by Benjamin E. Hermalin & Michael S. Weisbach - 607-622 On the Strategic Importance of Prices versus Quantities
by James W. Friedman - 623-632 Diversification, Ricardian Rents, and Tobin's q
by Cynthia A. Montgomery & Birger Wernerfelt
Autumn 1988, Volume 19, Issue 3
- 317-326 A General Model of R&D Competition and Policy
by Avinash Dixit - 327-343 Mitigating Contractual Hazards: Unilateral Options and Contract Length
by Keith J. Crocker & Scott E. Masten - 344-362 Randomization with Asymmetric Information
by Richard Arnott & Joseph E. Stiglitz - 363-388 Perfect Equilibria in Budget-Constrained Sequential Auctions: An Experimental Study
by Carolyn Pitchik & Andrew Schotter - 389-407 Capital Structure in Repeated Oligopolies
by Vojislav Maksimovic - 408-419 Bilateral Monopolies and Incentives for Merger
by Henrick Horn & Asher Wolinsky - 420-437 Speculative Carryover: An Empirical Examination of the U.S. Refined Copper Market
by Walter N. Thurman - 438-457 Regulating a Monopolist with Unknown Demand and Cost Functions
by Tracy R. Lewis & David E.M. Sappington - 458-466 Umbrella Branding as a Signal of New Product Quality: An Example of Signalling by Posting a Bond
by Birger Wernerfelt - 467-477 Regulation and Legislative Choice
by David P. Baron - 478-485 Modelling the Connections in the Cross Section between Technical Progress and R&D Intensity
by Richard R. Nelson - 489-494 Mendeloff's The Dilemma of Toxic Substance Regulation: How Overregulation Causes Underregulation
by Jerry L. Mashaw
Summer 1988, Volume 19, Issue 2
- 157-172 The Costs of Conflict Resolution and Financial Distress: Evidence from the Texaco-Pennzoil Litigation
by David M. Cutler & Lawrence H. Summers - 173-190 Simultaneous Signalling to the Capital and Product Markets
by Robert Gertner & Robert Gibbons & David Scharfstein - 191-199 The Impact of Trade Unions on Incentives to Deter Entry
by Mathias Dewatripont - 200-220 An Empirical Analysis of Dynamic, Nonprice Competition in an Oligopolistic Industry
by Mark J. Roberts & Larry Samuelson - 221-234 "Mix and Match": Product Compatibility without Network Externalities
by Carmen Matutes & Pierre Regibeau - 235-252 Coordination through Committees and Markets
by Joseph Farrell & Garth Saloner - 253-265 Price Discrimination and Patent Policy
by Jerry A. Hausman & Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason - 266-275 The Advantages of Imprecise Information
by Esther Gal-Or - 276-284 Joint Bidding, Entry, and the Price of OCS Leases
by C.E. Moody Jr. & W.J. Kruvant - 285-292 Money-Back Contracts with Double Moral Hazard
by Duncan P. Mann & Jennifer P. Wissink - 293-297 On Vertical Restraints and the Law: A Note
by Michael Waterson - 298-301 On Vertical Restraints and the Law: A Reply
by Frank Mathewson & Ralph A. Winter - 305-315 Litan's What Should Banks Do? A Review Essay
by Lawrence J. White
Spring 1988, Volume 19, Issue 1
- 1-26 Government Intervention in Production and Incentives Theory: A Review of Recent Contributions
by B. Caillaud & R. Guesnerie & P. Rey & J. Tirole - 27-43 Revenue Sharing as an Incentive in an Agency Problem: An example from the National Football League
by Scott E. Atkinson & Linda R. Stanley & John Tschirhart - 44-58 Auctions with Endogenous Quantity
by Robert G. Hansen - 59-71 Advertising and Limit Pricing
by Kyle Bagwell & Garey Ramey - 72-87 Ability, Moral Hazard, Firm Size, and Diversification
by Debra J. Aron - 88-101 A Theory of Preemptive Takeover Bidding
by Michael J. Fishman - 102-113 Revealed Bureaucratic Preference: Priorities of the Consumer Product Safety Commission
by Lacy Glenn Thomas - 114-122 Preemptive Investment Timing
by David E. Mills - 123-137 Dynamic Competition with Switching Costs
by Joseph Farrell & Carl Shapiro - 138-146 Trade Associations as Information Exchange Mechanisms
by Alison J. Kirby - 147-155 Product-Market Competition and Managerial Slack
by David Scharfstein
Winter 1987, Volume 18, Issue 4
- 465-479 An Investigation of the Rationality of Consumer Valuations of Multiple Health Risks
by W. Kip Viscusi & Wesley A. Magat & Joel Huber - 480-491 Market Structure and Optimal Management Organizations
by Clive Bull & Janusz A. Ordover - 492-508 Pan American to United: The Pacific Division Transfer Case
by Franklin M. Fisher - 509-532 Monitoring, Moral Hazard, Asymmetric Information, and Risk Sharing in Procurement Contracting
by David P. Baron & David Besanko - 533-549 Postentry Investment and Market Structure in the Chemical Processing Industries
by Marvin B. Lieberman - 550-563 Optimality and Sustainability: Regulation and Intermodal Competition in Telecommunications
by Michael A. Einhorn - 564-580 The Neoclassical Model of Consumer Demand with Identically Priced Commodities: An Application to Time-of-Use Electricity Pricing
by Douglas W. Caves & Laurits R. Christensen & Joseph A. Herriges - 581-595 Cooperatives as Entrants
by Richard J. Sexton & Terri A. Sexton - 596-610 Long-Term Competition in a Dynamic Game: The Cold Fish War
by Jonathan Cave - 611-621 An Asymmetric Common-Value Auction Model
by Donald B. Hausch
Autumn 1987, Volume 18, Issue 3
- 333-347 The Effects of Price Restrictions on Competition Between National and Local Firms
by Patrick J. DeGraba - 348-359 Mechanisms for Incentive Regulation: Theory and Experiment
by James C. Cox & R. Mark Isaac - 360-368 Licensing to Enhance Demand for New Technologies
by Andrea Shepard - 369-383 Hierarchical Regulatory Control
by Joel S. Demski & David E.M. Sappington - 384-396 On the Misuse of the Profits-Sales Ratio to Infer Monopoly Power
by Franklin M. Fisher - 397-407 A Core Selection for Regulating a Single-Output Monopoly
by Herve J. Moulin - 408-416 The Costs of Price Regulation: Lessons from Railroad Deregulation
by Kenneth D. Boyer - 417-427 Rate-Setting by Diagnosis Related Groups and Hospital Specialization
by David Dranove - 428-435 Moral Hazard in Risk-Averse Teams
by Eric Rasmusen - 436-451 On Governing Multilateral Transactions with Bilateral Contracts
by Jacques Cremer & Michael H. Riordan - 452-458 The Strategic Choice of Managerial Incentives
by Steven D. Sklivas - 461-464 Magat, Krupnick, and Harrington's Rules in the Making: A Statistical Analysis of Regulatory Agency Behavior
by Roger C. Noll