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

Spring 2012 Volume 43, Issue 1, Pages 1-213

In This Issue

• Competition for attention in the Information (overload) Age

  Simon P. Anderson and André de Palma

• Vertical control of a distribution network—an empirical analysis of magazines

  Stijn Ferrari and Frank Verboven

• Accidental death and the rule of joint and several liability

  Daniel Carvell, Janet Currie and W. Bentley MacLeod

• The role of demand information and monitoring in tacit collusion

  Christian Rojas

• A Markov-perfect equilibrium model of the impacts of price controls on the performance of the pharmaceutical industry

  Darren Filson

• Demand shocks, capacity coordination, and industry performance: lessons from an economic laboratory

  Kyle Hampton and Katerina Sherstyuk

• The effect of learning by hiring on productivity

  Pierpaolo Parrotta and Dario Pozzoli

• New-vehicle characteristics and the cost of the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard

  Thomas Klier and Joshua Linn

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