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 2011 Volume 42, Issue 4, Pages 619-804

In This Issue

• Exclusive contracts and demand foreclosure

  David Spector

• Sequential location games

  Simon Loertscher and Gerd Muehlheusser

• Prizes and lemons: procurement of innovation under imperfect commitment

  Wei Ding and Elmar G. Wolfstetter

• Consumer search and dynamic price dispersion: an application to gasoline markets

  Ambarish Chandra and Mariano Tappata

• Moral hazard, hold-up, and the optimal allocation of control rights

  Vijay Yerramilli

• An empirical model of search with vertically differentiated products

  Matthijs R. Wildenbeest

• Rewarding improvements: optimal dynamic contracts with subjective evaluation

  Jimmy Chan and Bingyong Zheng

• Demand spillovers and market outcomes in the mutual fund industry

  Alessandro Gavazza

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