Issues of RAND Journal of Economics

Fall 2026

Volume 57, Issue 3, Pages 469-807

In This Issue

• Preemptive Entry and Technology Diffusion: The Market for Drive-In Theaters

  Ricard Gil, Jean-François Houde, Shilong Sun, Yuya Takahashi

• Mergers in the Presence of Adverse Selection

  Conor Ryan

• Cleaner but Volatile Energy? The Effect of Coal Plant Retirement on Market Competition in the Wholesale Electricity Market

  Harim Kim

• The Incidence of Coarse Certification: Evidence From the ENERGY STAR Program

  Sébastien Houde

• Consumer Search, Firm Heterogeneity, and Platform Design

  Wenzhang Zhang

• What Causes Geographic Variation in Drug Prescribing? Evidence from Physician Migration

  David Beheshti, Seth Neller

• Pulp Friction: The Value of Quantity Contracts in Decentralized Markets

  Olivier Darmouni, Simon Essig Aberg, Juha Tolvanen

• Peer Learning, Enforcement, and Reputation

  Yi Chen, Kai Du, Phillip Stocken, Zhe Wang

• Nonlinear Pricing in Oligopoly: How Brand Preferences Shape Market Outcomes

  Renato Gomes, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur, Lucas Maestri

• Buyer's Hidden Search With Continuous Intensity: The Seller-Optimal Mechanism and a Perverse Effect

  Dongri Liu, Jingfeng Lu

• Price Discrimination With Manipulable Observables

  Teck Yong Tan

• Market Effects of Brand Search Advertising

  Massimo Motta, Antonio Penta

• Welfare Effects of Trade Associations: The Case of the Chilean Salmon Export Industry

  Thomas Eisenberg, Manuel Estay, Debi Prasad Mohapatra

• The Competitive Effects of Mergers with Cournot Competition

  Markus Reisinger, Hans Zenger

• Output Quality, Productivity, and Demand: Evidence from the Chinese Steel Industry

  Jing Li, Shengyu Li, Hongsong Zhang