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Winter 2025
Volume 56, Issue 4, Pages 387-755
In This Issue
Pay Transparency and Inventor Productivity: Evidence From State-Level Pay Secrecy Laws
Endogenous Technology Spillovers in R&D Collaboration Networks
Drip Pricing When Consumers Have Limited Foresight: Evidence from Driving School Fees
Contingent Prizes in Dynamic Contests
Data and Competition: A Simple Framework
The Timing of New Technology Adoption: The Case of MRI
Endogenous Outside Option and Data Privacy
Price Setting on a Network
Authority and Specialization Under Informational Interdependence
Rx-to-OTC Switch, Market Exclusivity, and Consumer Welfare: A Study of the US Anti-Ulcer Drug Markets
Multivariate Incomplete Information in the Mixture Model of Contests
Match Quality, Search, and the Internet Market for Used Books
Auctioning Off Budgets in Procurement
Content-Hosting Platforms: Discovery, Membership, Or Both?
Estimating Complementarity With Large Choice Sets: An Application to Mergers
Opportunism in Vertical Contracting: A Dynamic Perspective
A Dynamic Model of Predation