Volume 16
Number 1, Spring 2007

Annabelle Gawer and Rebecca Henderson
Platform Owner Entry and Innovation in Complementary
Markets: Evidence from Intel

Birger Wernerfelt
Delegation, Committees, and Managers

Pedro Ortín-Ángel and Vicente Salas-Fumás
Compensation Dispersion Between and Within Hierarchical Levels

Thomas Hellmann
Entrepreneurs and the Process of Obtaining Resources

Dominique Demougin and Oliver Fabel
Entrepreneurship and the Division of Ownership in
New Ventures

Sadao Nagaoka
Assessing the R&D Management of a Firm in Terms of Speed
and Science Linkage: Evidence from the US Patents

James Beesen and Robert M. Hunt
An Empirical Look at Software Patents

Toshiaki Iizuka
An Empirical Analysis of Planned Obsolescence

Shin-Kun Peng and Takatoshi Tabuchi
Spatial Competition in Variety and Number of Stores

Volume 16Volume 16
Number 2, Spring 2007

Jordi Blanes I Vidal and Marc Möller
When Should Leaders Share Information With Their Subordinates?

Ramarao Desiraju and David E. M. Sappington
Equity and Adverse Selection

Bogaçhan Çelen and Saltuk Özertürk
Implications of Executive Hedge Markets for Firm Value Maximization

Paul Belleflamme and Pierre M. Picard
Piracy and Competition

John R. Boyce and Aidan Hollis
Preliminary Injunctions and Damage Rules in Patent Law

Can Erutku and Yves Richelle
Optimal Licensing Contracts and the Value of a Patent

John Thanassoulis
Competitive Mixed Bundling and Consumer Surplus

Mónica Correa-López
Price and Quantity Competition in a Differentiated Duopoly with Upstream Suppliers

Lucy White
Foreclosure with Incomplete Information

Volume 16
Number 3, Fall 2007

Special Issue
Nonmarket Strategy and Social Responsibility

David P. Baron and Daniel Diermeier
(Issue Editors)
Introduction to the Special Issue on Nonmarket Strategy and Social Responsibility

Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, Jr., and Geoff Edwards
Does Private Money Buy Public Policy? Campaign
Contributions and Regulatory Outcomes in Telecommunications

Ernesto Dal Bó, Pedro Dal Bó, and Rafael Di Tella
Reputation When Threats and Transfers Are Available

David P. Baron and Daniel Diermeier
Strategic Activism and Nonmarket Strategy

Bharat Anand, Rafael Di Tella, and Alexander Galetovic
Information or Opinion? Media Bias as Product Differentiation

David P. Baron
Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship

Aleix Calveras, Juan-José Ganuza, and Gerard Llobet
Regulation, Corporate Social Responsibility and Activism

Giovanni Cespa and Giacinta Cestone
Corporate Social Responsibility and Managerial Entrenchment

Donald S. Siegel and Donald F. Vitaliano
An Empirical Analysis of the Strategic Use of Corporate Social Responsibility

Contents of Volume 15:

Number 1 Spring 2006

Grzegorz Pawlina and Peter M. Kort
Real Options in an Asymmetric Duopoly: Who Benefits from Your Competitive Disadvantage? 1

J. Miguel Villas-Boas
Dynamic Competition with Experience Goods 37

Eric Zitzewitz
Nationalism in Winter Sports Judging and Its Lessons for Organizational Decision Making 67

Yongmin Chen
Marketing Innovation 101

Kaushik Basu
Consumer Cognition and Pricing in the 9's in Oligopolistic Markets 125

Juan A. Mañez
Unbeatable Value Low-price Guarantee: Collusive Mechanism or Advertising Strategy? 143

Michael Conlin and Vrinda Kadiyali
Entry Deterring Capacity in the Texas Lodging Industry167

Junichiro Ishida
Team Incentives under Relative Performance Evaluation 187

Kurt R. Brekke, Robert Nuscheler, and Odd Rune Straume
Quality and Location Choices under Price Regulation 207

Talia Bar
Defensive Publications in an R&D Race 229

Volume 15, Number 2 Summer 2006

Ronald H. Coase
The Conduct of Economics: The Example of Fisher Body and General Motors

Terrence Hendershott and Jie Zhang
A Model of Direct and Intermediated Sales

Avi Goldfarb
State Dependence at Internet Portals

Daniel Houser and John Wooders
Reputation in Auctions: Theory and Evidence from eBay

Heidrun Hoppe, Philippe Jehiel and Benny Moldovanu
License Auctions and Market Structure

Arghya Ghosh and Hodaka Morita
Platform Sharing in a Differentiated Duopoly

Kenneth Hendricks and R. Preston McAfee
Feints

Fahad Khalil, Doyoung Kim, and Dongsoo Shin
Optimal Task Design: To Integrate or Separate Planning and Implementation?

Olivier Bertrand and Habib Zitouna
Trade Liberalization and Industrial Restructuring: The Role of Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions

Katherine Doornik
Relational Contracting in Partnerships

Volume 15, Number 3 Fall 2006

Paolo Fulghieri and Laurie Simon Hodrick
Synergies and Internal Agency Conflicts: The Double-Edged Sword of Mergers

Albert Banal-Estañol and Marco Ottaviani
Mergers with Product Market Risk

Thomas H. Noe and Michael J. Rebello
The Role of Debt Purchases in Takeovers: A Tale of Two Retailers

Scott E. Masten
Authority and Commitment: Why Universities, Like Legislatures, Are Not Organized as Firms

Michael L. Katz
Observable Contracts as Commitments: Interdependent Contracts and Moral Hazard

Volker Laux
The Ignored Performance Measure

Illoong Kwon
Optimal Contracts for Long-term Decisions and the Threat of Dismissal

Juan-José Ganuza and Esther Hauk
Allocating Ideas: Horizontal Competition in Tournaments

Nolan H. Miller, Nikita E. Piankov, and Richard J. Zeckhauser
Possibly-Final Offers

Contents of Volume 14:

Volume 14, Number 1 Spring 2005

Michaela Draganska and Dipak Jain
Product-Line Length as a Competitive Tool 1

Howard Smith and Donald Hay
Streets, Malls and Supermarkets 29

Simon P. Anderson and André de Palma
Price Dispersion and Consumer Reservation Prices 61

Paul W. Dobson and Michael Waterson
Chain-Store Pricing Across Local Markets 93

Mikko Mustonen
When Does a Firm Support Substitute Open Source Programming? 121

Thomas Noe and Geoffrey Parker
Winner Take All: Competition, Strategy, and the Structure of Returns in the Internet Economy 141

Charles E. Hyde and Chongwoo Choe
Keeping Two Sets of Books: The Relationship Between Tax & Incentive Transfer Prices 165

Christian Grund and Dirk Sliwka
Envy and Compassion in Tournaments 187

Yongmin Chen
Vertical Disintegration 209

Volume 14, Number 2 Summer 2005

Ronald L. Goettler and Phillip Leslie Cofinancing to Manage Risk 231
in the Motion Picture Industry

Andres Almazan and Carlos A. Molina Intra-Industry Capital 263
Structure Dispersion

Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ranseyer Who Appoints Them, What 299
Do they Do? Evidence on Outside Directors from Japan

David P. Baron Competing for the Public Through the News Media 339

C. Robert Clark and Ignatius J. Horstmann Advertising and 377
Coordination in Markets with Consumption Scale Effects

Pedro Mendi The Structure of Payments in Technology Transfer 403
Contracts: Evidence from Spain

Robert Salomon and J. Myles Shaver Learning by Exporting: New 431
Insights from Examining Firm Innovation

Maria José Gil Moltó, Nikolaos Georgantzís, and Vicente Orts 461
Cooperative R&D with Endogenous Technology Differentiation

Larry Karp and Jeffrey M. Perloff When Promoters Like Scalpers 477

Volume 14, Number 3 Fall 2005

Special Issue
The Industrial Organization of Health Care V

Thomas C. Buchmueller and Ching-To Albert Ma 509
Issue Editors Introduction

Leemore S. Dafny Games Hospitals Play: Entry Deterrence in 513
Hospital Procedure Markets

John Cawley, Michael Chernew, and Catherine McLaughlin HMO 543
Participation in Medicare+Choice

Daniel P. Kessler and Jeffrey J. Geppert The Effects of Competition 575
on Variation in the Quality and Cost of Medical Care

Brigitte Dormont and Carine Milcent How to Regulate Hetergenous 591
Hospitals?

Pedro Pita Barros and Pau Olivella Waiting Lists and Patient Selection 623

Martin Chalkley and Colin Tilley The Existence and Nature of Physician 647
Agency: Evidence of Stinting from the British National Health Service

Richard B. Smith An Alternative Perspective on Information Asymmetry; 665
Implications for Consumer Authority in Physician Services Markets

Toshiaki Iizuka and Ginger Z. Jin The Effect of Prescription Drug 701
Advertising on Doctor Visits

Haiden A. Huskamp, Richard G. Frank, Kimberly A. McGuigan, 729
and Yuting Zhang The Impact of A Three-Tier Formulary on Demand
Response for Prescription Drugs

Y. Richard Wang and Mark V. Pauly Spillover Effects of Restrictive 755
Drug Formularies on Physician Prescribing Behavior: Evidence from Medicaid

Contents of Volume 13:

Volume 13, Number 1 Spring 2004

Special Issue
International Business and Markets

Daniel F. Spulber
Introduction 1

Robert C. Feenstra and Gordon H. Hanson
Intermediaries in Entrepôt Trade: Hong Kong Re-Exports of Chinese Goods 3

Keith Head, John Ries and Barbara J. Spencer
Vertical Networks and US Auto Parts Exports: Is Japan Different? 37

James E. Rauch and Joel Watson
Network Intermediaries in International Trade 69

Francine Lafontaine and Joanne E. Oxley
International Franchising Practices in Mexico: Do Franchisors Customize their Contracts? 95

Orlando I. Balboa, Andrew F. Daughety, and Jennifer F. Reinganum
Market Structure and the Demand for Free Trade 125

Gianni De Fraja and George Norman
Product Differentiation and the Location of International Production 151

Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer
Directed Credit? The Loan Market in High-Growth Japan 171

Volume 13, Number 2 Summer 2004

Emin M. Dinlersoz
Firm Organization and the Structure of Retail Markets 207

Matthew Shum
Does Advertising Overcome Brand Loyalty? Evidence from the Breakfast Cereals Market 241

Hodaka Morita and Michael Waldman
Durable Goods, Monopoly Maintenance, and Time Inconsistency 273

Jae Nahm
Durable Goods Monopoly with Endogenous Innovation 303

Isabelle Brocas and Juan D. Carrillo
Entrepreneurial Boldness and Excessive Investment 321

Rodney B. Wallace
Preference-Based Discrimination and Profit: On the Profitability of Discriminatory Spatial Policy 351

Martin Peitz
A Strategic Approach to Software Protection: Comment 371

Volume 13, Number 3 Fall 2004

Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
Trust in Agency 375

Rafael Moner-Colonques, José J. Sempere-Monerris, and Amparo Urbano
Strategic Delegation with Multi-Product Firms 405

Sreya Kolay, Greg Shaffer, and Janusz A. Ordover
All-units Discounts in Retail Contracts 429

Birger Wernerfelt
Organizational Languages 461

Thomas Marschak
Information Technology and the Organization of Firms 473

Vincenzo Denicolò and Luigi Alberto Franzoni
Patents, Secrets, and the First Inventor Defense 517

Wilbur Chung and Jaeyong Song
Sequential Investment, Firm Motives, and Agglomeration of Japanese Electronics Firms in the United States 539

Volume 13, Number 4 Winter 2004

Thomas P. Lyon and John W. Maxwell
Astroturf: Interest Group Lobbying and Corporate Strategy 561

Michael J. Mazzeo
Retail Contracting and Organizational Form: Alternatives to Chain Affiliation in the Motel Industry 599

George J. Mailath, Volker Nocke, and Andrew Postlewaite
Business Strategy, Human Capital, and Managerial Incentives 617

Thomas Gehrig and Rune Stenbacka
Differentiation-Induced Switching Costs and Poaching 635

Jean J. Gabszewicz, Didier Laussel, and Nathalie Sonnac
Programming and Advertising Competition in the Broadcasting Industry 657

Qihong Liu and Konstantinos Serfes
Quality of Information and Oligopolistic Price Discrimination 671

Hongbin Cai and Walter Cont
Agency Problems and Commitment in Delegated Bargaining 703

Suchan Chae and Paul Heidhues
Buyers’ Alliances for Bargaining Power 731

Murat Usman
Optimal Debt Contracts with Renegotiation 755