Autumn 1983 Table of Contents

Volume 14, No. 2

Robert H. Porter
A Study of Cartel Stability: The Joint Executive Committee, 1880-1886
Judith R. Gelman and Steven C. Salop
Judo Economics: Capacity Limitation and Coupon Competition
David M. Kreps and José A. Scheinkman
Quantity Precommitment and Bertrand Competition Yield Cournot Outcomes
Michael H. Riordan
Contracting in an Idiosyncratic Market
John R. Woodbury, Stanley M. Besen, and Gary M. Fournier
The Determinants of Network Television Program Prices: Implicit Contracts, Regulation, and Bargaining Power
Oliver D. Hart
The Market Mechanism as an Incentive Scheme
Richard N. Clarke
Collusion and the Incentives for Information Sharing
Larry M. DeBrock and James L. Smith
Joint Bidding, Information Pooling, and the Performance of Petroleum Lease Auctions
Rolf Färe and James Logan
The Rate-of-Return Regulated Firm: Cost and Production Duality
Gur Huberman, David Mayers and Clifford W. Smith, Jr.
Optimal Insurance Policy Indemnity Schedules
Michael R. Veall
Industrial Electricity Demand and the Hopkinson Rate: An Application of the Extreme Value Distribution
Richard A. Lambert
Long-Term Contracts and Moral Hazard
David Sappington
Optimal Regulation of a Multiproduct Monopoly with Unknown Technological Capabilities
James W. Friedman
Advertising and Oligopolistic Equilibrium
Michael Keren and David Levhari
The Internal Organization of the Firm and the Shape of Average Costs
Michael Manove
Provider Insurance
Carl Shapiro
Optimal Pricing of Experience Goods
William P. Rogerson
Reputation and Product Quality
Dan J. Laughhunn, Roy L. Crum and John W. Payne
Risk Attitudes in the Telecommunications Industry
Drew Fudenberg and Jean Tirole
Learning-by-Doing and Market Performance
David Easley and Maureen O'Hara
The Economic Role of the Nonprofit Firm
I.P.L. P'ng
Strategic Behavior in Suit, Settlement, and Trial
David M. Levy and Nestor E. Terleckyj
Effects of Government R&D on Private R&D Investment and Productivity: A Macroeconomic Analysis
Dennis W. Carlton
Equilibrium Fluctuations When Price and Delivery Lag Clear the Market
Yannis M. Ioannides and Christopher A. Pissarides
Wages and Employment With Firm-Specific Seniority
A. Mitchell Polinsky and William P. Rogerson
Products Liability, Consumer Misperceptions, and Market Power
Esther Gal-Or
Quality and Quantity Competition
Owen R. Phillips and Raymond C. Battalio
Two-Part Tariffs and Monopoly Profits When Visits Are Variable
Lester B. Lave
Viscusi's Risk by Choice: Regulating Health and Safety in the Workplace