Welcome to the RAND Journal of Economics

The purpose of the RAND Journal of Economics, formerly the Bell Journal of Economics, is to support and encourage research in the behavior of regulated industries, the economic analysis of organizations, and more generally, applied microeconomics. Both theoretical and empirical manuscripts in economics and law are encouraged.

The RAND Journal of Economics is published quarterly by The RAND Corporation, in conjunction with Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.

Current Issue

Winter 2012 Volume 43, Issue 4, Pages 577-780

In This Issue

• Who gets to the top? Generalists versus specialists in managerial organizations

  Daniel Ferreira and Raaj K. Sah

• The economics of network neutrality

  Nicholas Economides and Benjamin E. Hermalin

• When does a firm disclose product information?

  Frédéric Koessler and Régis Renault

• Optimal domestic regulation under asymmetric information and international trade: a simple general equilibrium approach

  David Martimort and Thierry Verdier

• The market for lawyers and quality layers in legal services

  Elisabetta Iossa and Bruno Jullien

• Measuring aggregate productivity growth using plant-level data

  Amil Petrin and James Levinsohn

• Endogenous asymmetry in a dynamic procurement auction

  Viplav Saini

• Why payment card fees are biased against retailers

  Julian Wright

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