NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Industrial Organization

Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance


2009
w15540 Emir Kamenica
Matthew Gentzkow

Bayesian Persuasion

w15490 Eric J. Bartelsman
John C. Haltiwanger
Stefano Scarpetta

Cross-Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocation and Selection

w15454 Katheryn N. Russ
Diego Valderrama

A Theory of Banks, Bonds, and the Distribution of Firm Size

w15434 Leemore Dafny
Mark Duggan
Subramaniam Ramanarayanan

Paying a Premium on Your Premium? Consolidation in the U.S. Health Insurance Industry

w15390 Ben Shiller
Joel Waldfogel

Music for a Song: An Empirical Look at Uniform Song Pricing and its Alternatives

w15377 Edward L. Glaeser
William R. Kerr
Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto

Clusters of Entrepreneurship

w15342 Kalina Manova
Zhiwei Zhang

Export Prices and Heterogeneous Firm Models

w15313 Timothy Dunne
Shawn D. Klimek
Mark J. Roberts
Daniel Yi Xu

Entry, Exit, and the Determinants of Market Structure

w15281 Casey B. Mulligan
Means-Tested Mortgage Modification: Homes Saved or Income Destroyed?

w15255 Emi Nakamura
Dawit Zerom

Accounting for Incomplete Pass-Through

w15237 Glenn Ellison
Alexander Wolitzky

A Search Cost Model of Obfuscation

w15214 David M. Cutler
Robert S. Huckman
Jonathan T. Kolstad

Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery

w15198 Jan De Loecker
Frederic Warzynski

Markups and firm-level export status

w15192 Gian Luca Clementi
Thomas F. Cooley
Sonia Di Giannatale

A Theory of Firm Decline

w15183 Seth M. Freedman
Melissa Schettini Kearney
Mara Lederman

Product Recalls, Imperfect Information, and Spillover Effects: Lessons from the Consumer Response to the 2007 Toy Recalls

w15060 Ryan Kellogg
Learning by Drilling: Inter-Firm Learning and Relationship Persistence in the Texas Oilpatch

w15019 Kathryn Graddy
George Hall

A Dynamic Model of Price Discrimination and Inventory Management at the Fulton Fish Market

w14978 Jonathan Vogel
Spatial Price Discrimination with Heterogeneous Firms

w14956 Bruce A. Blonigen
Anson Soderbery

Measuring the Benefits of Product Variety with an Accurate Variety Set

w14946 Michael Schwarz
Yuri Takhteyev

Half a Century of Public Software Institutions: Open Source as a Solution to Hold-Up Problem

w14933 Julio J. Rotemberg
Altruistic Dynamic Pricing with Customer Regret

w14798 Orley C. Ashenfelter
Daniel Hosken
Matthew Weinberg

Generating Evidence to Guide Merger Enforcement

w14771 Matilde Bombardini
Francesco Trebbi

Competition and Political Organization: Together or Alone in Lobbying for Trade Policy?

w14755 Robert S. Pindyck
Sunk Costs and Risk-Based Barriers to Entry

w14737 Gautam Gowrisankaran
Marc Rysman

Dynamics of Consumer Demand for New Durable Goods

w14735 Reint Gropp
Anil Kashyap

A New Metric for Banking Integration in Europe

w14719 Dennis W. Carlton
Why We Need to Measure the Effect of Merger Policy and How to Do It

w14712 Patrick Bolton
Xavier Freixas
Joel Shapiro

The Credit Ratings Game

w14674 Jaap H. Abbring
Jeffrey R. Campbell

Last-In First-Out Oligopoly Dynamics

w14668 Arnaud Costinot
Lindsay Oldenski
James E. Rauch

Adaptation and the Boundary of Multinational Firms


2008
w14610 Jonathan Eaton
Samuel Kortum
Francis Kramarz

An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms

w14590 Susan Athey
Jonathan Levin
Enrique Seira

Comparing Open and Sealed Bid Auctions: Evidence from Timber Auctions

w14578 Justine S. Hastings
Ebonya L. Washington

The First of the Month Effect: Consumer Behavior and Store Responses

w14572 Leemore Dafny
Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive?

w14538 Justine S. Hastings
Lydia Tejeda-Ashton

Financial Literacy, Information, and Demand Elasticity: Survey and Experimental Evidence from Mexico

w14506 Andrew Sweeting
The Strategic Timing Incentives of Commercial Radio Stations: An Empirical Analysis Using Multiple Equilibria

w14505 Andrew Sweeting
Equilibrium Price Dynamics in Perishable Goods Markets: The Case of Secondary Markets for Major League Baseball Tickets

w14503 Steven Berry
Panle Jia

Tracing the Woes: An Empirical Analysis of the Airline Industry

w14477 Alla Lileeva
Johannes Van Biesebroeck

Outsourcing when Investments are Specific and Complementary

w14455 Randall D. Cebul
James B. Rebitzer
Lowell J. Taylor
Mark E. Votruba

Unhealthy Insurance Markets: Search Frictions and the Cost and Quality of Health Insurance

w14454 Matteo Bugamelli
Fabiano Schivardi
Roberta Zizza

The Euro and Firm Restructuring

w14433 Rachel Griffith
Ephraim Leibtag
Andrew Leicester
Aviv Nevo

Timing and Quantity of Consumer Purchases and the Consumer Price Index

w14418 Maurice Kugler
Eric Verhoogen

The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence from Colombia

w14407 Edward L. Glaeser
William R. Kerr

Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?

w14383 Florin O. Bilbiie
Fabio Ghironi
Marc J. Melitz

Monopoly Power and Endogenous Product Variety: Distortions and Remedies

w14368 Timothy Erickson
Ariel Pakes

An Experimental Component Index for the CPI: From Annual Computer Data to Monthly Data on Other Goods

w14296 Claudio Lucarelli
Jeffrey Prince
Kosali Simon

Measuring Welfare and the Effects of Regulation in a Government-Created Market: The Case of Medicare Part D Plans

w14252 Pradeep Chintadunta
Renna Jiang
Ginger Z. Jin

Information, Learning, and Drug Diffusion: the Case of Cox-2 Inhibitors

w14152 Pablo T. Spiller
An Institutional Theory of Public Contracts: Regulatory Implications

w14226 Emmanuel Dechenaux
Jerry Thursby
Marie C. Thursby

Inventor Moral Hazard in University Licensing: The Role of Contracts

w14219 Robert E. Hall
Susan E. Woodward

The Burden of the Nondiversifiable Risk of Entrepreneurship

w14216 Rupert Harrison
Jordi Jaumandreu
Jacques Mairesse
Bettina Peters

Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data from Four European Countries

w14214 Costas Arkolakis
Market Penetration Costs and the New Consumers Margin in International Trade

w14178 Ana M. Fernandes
Ariel Pakes

Factor Utilization in Indian Manufacturing: A Look at the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys Data

w14166 Maris Goldmanis
Ali Hortacsu
Chad Syverson
Onsel Emre

E-commerce and the Market Structure of Retail Industries

w14162 Joseph J. Doyle
Jr.
Erich Muehlegger
Krislert Samphantharak

Edgeworth Cycles Revisited

w14153 M. Kate Bundorf
Jonathan D. Levin
Neale Mahoney

Pricing and Welfare in Health Plan Choice

w14127 Pinelopi K. Goldberg
Amit Khandelwal
Nina Pavcnik
Petia Topalova

Multi-product Firms and Product Turnover in the Developing World: Evidence from India

w14117 Ariel Pakes
Theory and Empirical Work on Imperfectly Competitive Markets

w14115 Claudia M. Landeo
Kathryn E. Spier

Naked Exclusion: An Experimental Study of Contracts with Externalities

w14080 Christopher R. Knittel
Konstantinos Metaxoglou

Estimation of Random Coefficient Demand Models: Challenges, Difficulties and Warnings

w14070 Andrew Epstein
Jonathan D. Ketcham
Sean Nicholson

Professional Partnerships and Matching in Obstetrics

w14004 Gary Richardson
Michael McBride

Religion, Longevity, and Cooperation: The Case of the Craft Guild.

w13975 Sabien Dobbelaere
Jacques Mairesse

Panel Data Estimates Of The Production Function And Product And Labor Market Imperfections

w13965 Emi Nakamura
Pass-Through in Retail and Wholesale

w13938 Carlos J. Serrano
The Dynamics of the Transfer and Renewal of Patents

w13930 Gary Richardson
Brand Names Before the Industrial Revolution

w13917 Mark Duggan
Fiona Scott Morton

The Effect of Medicare Part D on Pharmaceutical Prices and Utilization

w13916 Chenghuan Sean Chu
Phillip Leslie
Alan Sorensen

Nearly Optimal Pricing for Multiproduct Firms

w13891 Joshua Aizenman
Kenneth Kletzer

The Life Cycle of Scholars and Papers in Economics -- the "Citation Death Tax"

w13888 M. Kate Bundorf
Natalie Chun
Gopi Shah Goda
Daniel P. Kessler

Do Markets Respond to Quality Information? The Case of Fertility Clinics

w13864 Thomas J. Holmes
David K. Levine
James A. Schmitz
Jr.

Monopoly and the Incentive to Innovate When Adoption Involves Switchover Disruptions

w13859 Orley Ashenfelter
Daniel Hosken

The Effect of Mergers on Consumer Prices: Evidence from Five Selected Case Studies

w13832 Enrico Moretti
Social Learning and Peer Effects in Consumption: Evidence from Movie Sales

w13830 Casey B. Mulligan
Kevin K. Tsui

Political Entry, Public Policies, and the Economy

w13783 Thomas J. Holmes
The Diffusion of Wal-Mart and Economies of Density

w13781 Philip J. Cook
Assessing Urban Crime And Its Control: An Overview

w13754 Julio J. Rotemberg
Behavioral Aspects of Price Setting, and Their Policy Implications

w13752 Alma Cohen
Asymmetric Learning in Repeated Contracting: An Empirical Study


2007
w13703 Robert Feenstra
Hong Ma

Optimal Choice of Product Scope for Multiproduct Firms under Monopolistic Competition

w13671 Bruce A. Blonigen
Benjamin H. Liebman
Wesley W. Wilson

Trade Policy and Market Power: The Case of the US Steel Industry

w13666 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Using Firm Optimization to Evaluate and Estimate Returns to Scale

w13651 Ann Bartel
Casey Ichniowski
Kathryn Shaw
Ricardo Correa

International Differences in the Adoption and Impact of New Information Technologies and New HR Practices: The Valve-Making Industry in the U.S. and U.K.

w13644 Iain M. Cockburn
Megan MacGarvie

Patents, Thickets, and the Financing of Early-Stage Firms: Evidence from the Software Industry

w13632 Timothy S. Simcoe
Stuart J.H. Graham
Maryann Feldman

Competing on Standards? Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property and the Platform Paradox

w13614 Dora Gicheva
Justine Hastings
Sofia Villas-Boas

Revisiting the Income Effect: Gasoline Prices and Grocery Purchases

w13530 Alvin E. Roth
What Have We Learned From Market Design?

w13522 Andrew Sweeting
Dynamic Product Repositioning in Differentiated Product Markets: The Case of Format Switching in the Commercial Radio Industry

w13511 Erin T. Mansur
Do Oligopolists Pollute Less? Evidence from a Restructured Electricity Market

w13510 Erin T. Mansur
Prices vs. Quantities: Environmental Regulation and Imperfect Competition

w13509 Erin T. Mansur
Measuring Welfare in Restructured Electricity Markets

w13507 James B. Bushnell
Erin T. Mansur
Celeste Saravia

Vertical Arrangements, Market Structure, and Competition An Analysis of Restructured U.S. Electricity Markets

w13497 Joel Waldfogel
"Lost" on the Web: Does Web Distribution Stimulate or Depress Television Viewing?

w13452 Severin Borenstein
Nancy L. Rose

How Airline Markets Work...Or Do They? Regulatory Reform in the Airline Industry

w13376 Bruce Blonigen
Alyson Ma

Please Pass the Catch-up The Relative Performance of Chinese and Foreign Firms in Chinese Exports

w13360 Igal Hendel
Aviv Nevo
François Ortalo-Magné

The Relative Performance of Real Estate Marketing Platforms: MLS versus FSBOMadison.com

w13339 Dennis W. Carlton
Joshua S. Gans
Michael Waldman

Why Tie A Product Consumers Do Not Use?

w13326 Andrew Atkeson
Ariel Burstein

Innovation, firm dynamics, and international trade

w13303 Miguel Urquiola
Eric Verhoogen

Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence

w13298 Tae Okada
Charles Yuji Horioka

A Comment on Nishimura, Nakajima, and Kiyota's "Does the natural selection mechanism still work in severe recessions? Examination of the Japanese economy in the 1990s"

w13294 Petra Moser
Why Don't Inventors Patent?

w13268 Jeremy I. Bulow
Paul D. Klemperer

When are Auctions Best?

w13247 Nava Ashraf
James Berry
Jesse M. Shapiro

Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia

w13246 Jill R. Horwitz
Austin Nichols

What Do Nonprofits Maximize? Nonprofit Hospital Service Provision and Market Ownership Mix

w13226 Steven J. Davis
John Haltiwanger
Ron S. Jarmin
C. J. Krizan
Javier Miranda
Alfred Nucci
Kristin Sandusky

Measuring the Dynamics of Young and Small Businesses: Integrating the Employer and Nonemployer Universes

w13183 Pinelopi K. Goldberg
Rebecca Hellerstein

A Framework for Identifying the Sources of Local-Currency Price Stability with an Empirical Application

w13175 Albert Yung-Hsu Liu
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Jesenka Mrdjenovic

Diffusion of Common Application Membership and Admissions Outcomes at American Colleges and Universities

w13155 Jan De Loecker
Product Differentiation, Multi-product Firms and Estimating the Impact of Trade Liberalization on Productivity

w13140 Meghan R. Busse
Duncan Simester
Florian Zettelmeyer

"The Best Price You'll Ever Get" The 2005 Employee Discount Pricing Promotions in the U.S. Automobile Industry

w13075 Diego Escobari
Li Gan

Price Dispersion under Costly Capacity and Demand Uncertainty

w13069 Glenn Ellison
Sara Fisher Ellison

Strategic Entry Deterrence and the Behavior of Pharmaceutical Incumbents Prior to Patent Expiration

w13065 Kaivan Munshi
From Farming to International Business: The Social Auspices of Entrepreneurship in a Growing Economy

w13060 Nicholas Bloom
Mark Schankerman
John Van Reenen

Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry

w13058 Arghya Ghosh
Hodaka Morita

An Economic Analysis of Platform Sharing

w13056 Robert E. Hall
Susan E. Woodward

The Incentives to Start New Companies: Evidence from Venture Capital

w13054 Andrew B. Bernard
J. Bradford Jensen
Stephen J. Redding
Peter K. Schott

Firms in International Trade

w13015 Susan Helper
Morris M. Kleiner

International Differences in Lean Production, Productivity and Employee Attitudes

w12968 Margaret K. Kyle
Strategic Responses to Parallel Trade

w12961 Morten Ravn
Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe
Martin Uribe

Incomplete Cost Pass-Through Under Deep Habits

w12941 Ginger Zhe Jin
Alex Whalley

The Power of Attention: Do Rankings Affeect the Financial Resources of Public Colleges?

w12938 Mark Carlson
Kris James Mitchener

Branch Banking as a Device for Discipline: Competition and Bank Survivorship During the Great Depression

w12894 Ali Hortacsu
Chad Syverson

Cementing Relationships: Vertical Integration, Foreclosure, Productivity, and Prices

w12867 Louis Kaplow
Carl Shapiro

Antitrust

w12829 Sean M. Dougherty
Robert Inklaar
Robert H. McGuckin
Bart van Ark

International Comparisons of R&D Expenditure: Does an R&D PPP Make a Difference?


2006
w12804 Daron Acemoglu
Kostas Bimpikis
Asuman Ozdaglar

Price and Capacity Competition

w12782 Andrew B. Bernard
Stephen J. Redding
Peter K. Schott

Multi-Product Firms and Trade Liberalization

w12776 A. Mitchell Polinsky
Steven Shavell

Mandatory Versus Voluntary Disclosure of Product Risks

w12775 Daron Acemoglu
Ufuk Akcigit

State-Dependent Intellectual Property Rights Policy

w12722 Rachel Griffith
Elena Huergo
Jacques Mairesse
Bettina Peters

Innovation and Productivity across Four European Countries

w12720 Sendhil Mullainathan
Joshua Schwartzstein
Andrei Shleifer

Coarse Thinking and Persuasion

w12653 Casey B. Mulligan
Kevin K. Tsui

Political Competitiveness

w12646 Darlene C. Chisholm
Margaret S. McMillan
George Norman

Product Differentiation and Film Programming Choice: Do First-Run Movie Theatres Show the Same Films?

w12635 Christopher R. Knittel
Jason J. Lepore

Tacit Collusion in the Presence of Cyclical Demand and Endogenous Capacity Levels

w12604 Christopher R. Knittel
Victor Stango

Strategic Incompatibility in ATM Markets

w12594 Ching-Yi Chung
Gary Richardson

Deposit Insurance and the Composition of Bank Suspensions in Developing Economies: Lessons from the State Deposit Insurance Experiments of the 1920S

w12577 Darius Lakdawalla
Tomas Philipson
Y. Richard Wang

Intellectual Property and Marketing

w12563 Iain M. Cockburn
Megan J. MacGarvie

Entry, Exit and Patenting in the Software Industry

w12520 Boyan Jovanovic
Chung-Yi Tse

Creative Destruction in Industries

w12507 Michael S. Visser
William T. Harbaugh
Naci H. Mocan

An Experimental Test of Criminal Behavior Among Juveniles and Young Adults

w12488 Daniel A. Ackerberg
Gautam Gowrisankaran

Quantifying Equilibrium Network Externalities in the ACH Banking Industry

w12474 Ramon Marimon
Vincenzo Quadrini

Competition, Innovation and Growth with Limited Commitment

w12443 Gautam Gowrisankaran
John Krainer

The Welfare Consequences of ATM Surcharges: Evidence from a Structural Entry Model

w12425 Patrick Bajari
Jeremy T. Fox
Stephen Ryan

Evaluating Wireless Carrier Consolidation Using Semiparametric Demand Estimation

w12370 Peter C. Reiss
Matthew W. White

Evaluating Welfare with Nonlinear Prices

w12322 Volker Nocke
Stephen Yeaple

Globalization and Endogenous Firm Scope

w12301 Martin Gaynor
What Do We Know About Competition and Quality in Health Care Markets?

w12293 Andrew B. Bernard
Stephen J. Redding
Peter K. Schott

Multi-Product Firms and Product Switching

w12263 Ken Hendricks
Alan Sorensen

Information Spillovers in the Market for Recorded Music

w12252 Ana Carla A. Costa
Joao M.P. De Mello

Judicial Risk and Credit Market Performance: Micro Evidence from Brazilian Payroll Loans

w12244 Robert Town
Douglas Wholey
Roger Feldman
Lawton R. Burns

The Welfare Consequences of Hospital Mergers

w12231 Chad Syverson
Prices, Spatial Competition, and Heterogenous Producers: An Empirical Test

w12177 Florian Zettelmeyer
Fiona Scott Morton
Jorge Silva-Risso

Scarcity Rents in Car Retailing: Evidence from Inventory Fluctuations at Dealerships

w12131 Johannes Van Biesebroeck
Complementarities in Automobile Production

w12129 Ricardo J. Caballero
Takeo Hoshi
Anil K. Kashyap

Zombie Lending and Depressed Restructuring in Japan

w12126 Susan Athey
Philip A. Haile

Empirical Models of Auctions

w12094 Michael R. Darby
Lynne G. Zucker

Innovation, Competition and Welfare-Enhancing Monopoly

w12051 Patrick Bajari
Stephanie Houghton
Steve Tadelis

Bidding for Incomplete Contracts: An Empirical Analysis

w12031 Philippe Aghion
Robin Burgess
Stephen Redding
Fabrizio Zilibotti

The Unequal Effects of Liberalization: Evidence from Dismantling the License Raj in India

w11972 Joel Waldfogel
The Median Voter and the Median Consumer: Local Private Goods and Residential Sorting

w11958 Guillermo Caruana
Liran Einav

Production Targets

w11938 Rosemary Avery
Donald Kenkel
Dean R. Lillard
Alan Mathios

Private Profits and Public Health: Does Advertising Smoking Cessation Products Encourage Smokers to Quit?

w11937 V. Joseph Hotz
Mo Xiao

Strategic Information Disclosure: The Case of Multi-Attribute Products with Heterogeneous Consumers


2005
w11900 Gabriel Weintraub
C. Lanier Benkard
Ben Van Roy

Markov Perfect Industry Dynamics with Many Firms

w11870 Adam Copeland
George Hall

The Response of Prices, Sales, and Output to Temporary Changes in Demand

w11847 Jeffrey R. Campbell
Competition in Large Markets

w11821 Paul R. Bergin
Giancarlo Corsetti

Towards a Theory of Firm Entry and Stabilization Policy

w11798 Bruce A. Blonigen
Wesley W. Wilson

Foreign Subsidization and Excess Capacity

w11737 Philip J. Cook
Jens Ludwig
Sudhir Venkatesh
Anthony A. Braga

Underground Gun Markets

w11727 David S. Evans
Albert L. Nichols
Richard Schmalensee

U.S. v. Microsoft: Did Consumers Win?

w11705 Sujoy Chakravarty
Martin Gaynor
Steven Klepper
William B. Vogt

Does the Profit Motive Make Jack Nimble? Ownership Form and the Evolution of the U.S. Hospital Industry

w11664 Matthew Gentzkow
Jesse Shapiro

Media Bias and Reputation

w11649 Jean M. Abraham
Martin S. Gaynor
William B. Vogt

Entry and Competition in Local Hospital Markets

w11645 Dennis W. Carlton
Barriers To Entry

w11603 David S. Evans
Richard Schmalensee

The Industrial Organization of Markets with Two-Sided Platforms

w11575 Peter K. Schott
Andrew B. Bernard
Stephen J. Redding

Products and Productivity

w11555 Lucia Foster
John Haltiwanger
Chad Syverson

Reallocation, Firm Turnover, and Efficiency: Selection on Productivity or Profitability?

w11546 Rasmus Lentz
Dale T. Mortensen

An Empirical Model of Growth Through Product Innovation

w11540 Yosuke Okada
Competition and Productivity in Japanese Manufacturing Industries

w11532 Yooki Park
Suzanne Scotchmer

Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products

w11515 Florian Zettelmeyer
Fiona Scott Morton
Jorge Silva-Risso

How the Internet Lowers Prices: Evidence from Matched Survey and Auto Transaction Data

w11514 Ginger Zhe Jin
Alan T. Sorensen

Information and Consumer Choice: The Value of Publicized Health Plan Ratings

w11504 Edward L. Maydew
Douglas A. Shackelford

The Changing Role of Auditors in Corporate Tax Planning

w11503 Diego Comin
Sunil Mulani

A Theory of Growth and Volatility at the Aggregate and Firm Level

w11500 Thorsten Beck
Asli Demirguc-Kunt
Ross Levine

Bank Concentration and Fragility: Impact and Mechanics

w11430 Robert S. Pindyck
Sunk Costs and Real Options in Antitrust

w11418 Barbara J. Spencer
International Outsourcing and Incomplete Contracts

w11407 Dennis W. Carlton
Michael Waldman

Tying, Upgrades, and Switching Costs in Durable-Goods Markets

w11351 Charles W. Calomiris
Thanavut Pornrojnangkool

Monopoly-Creating Bank Consolidation? The Merger of Fleet and BankBoston

w11321 Jean O. Lanjouw
Patents, Price Controls, and Access to New Drugs: How Policy Affects Global Market Entry

w11292 Josh Lerner
Ulrike Malmendier

Contractibility and the Design of Research Agreements

w11257 Adam Copeland
Wendy Dunn
George Hall

Prices, Production and Inventories over the Automotive Model Year

w11224 Thorsten Beck
Asli Demirguc-Kunt
Ross Levine

SMEs, Growth, and Poverty

w11164 Neeraj Sood
Abby Alpert
Jay Bhattacharya

Technology, Monopoly, and the Decline of the Viatical Settlements Industry

w11128 Marie Thursby
Jerry Thursby
Emmanuel Dechenaux

Shirking, Sharing Risk, and Shelving: The Role of University License Contracts

w11123 Ali Hortacsu
Steven L. Puller

Understanding Strategic Bidding in Restructured Electricity Markets: A Case Study of ERCOT

w11116 Ali Hortacsu
Samita Sareen

Order Flow and the Formation of Dealer Bids: Information Flows and Strategic Behavior in the Government of Canada Securities Auctions

w11114 Thomas A. Abbott
John A. Vernon

The Cost of US Pharmaceutical Price Reductions: A Financial Simulation Model of R&D Decisions

w11110 Oriol Carbonell-Nicolau
Diego Comin

Testing out Contractual Incompleteness: Evidence from Soccer

w11087 Robert Town
Douglas Wholey
Roger Feldman
Lawton R. Burns

Did the HMO Revolution Cause Hospital Consolidation?

w11072 Austan Goolsbee
Chad Syverson

How do Incumbents Respond to the Threat of Entry? Evidence from the Major Airlines

w11053 Steven D. Levitt
Chad Syverson

Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions


2004
w11003 Volker Nocke
Stephen Yeaple

An Assignment Theory of Foreign Direct Investment

w11001 Kira Markiewicz
Nancy L. Rose
Catherine Wolfram

Do Markets Reduce Costs? Assessing the Impact of Regulatory Restructuring on U.S. Electric Generation Efficiency

w10983 Thorsten Beck
Asli Demirguc-Kunt
Luc Laeven
Ross Levine

Finance, Firm Size, and Growth

w10962 Christopher R. Knittel
Victor Stango

Incompatibility, Product Attributes and Consumer Welfare: Evidence from ATMs

w10930 Mark Duggan
Fiona Scott Morton

The Distortionary Effects of Government Procurement: Evidence from Medicaid Prescription Drug Purchasing

w10929 Raymond Fisman
Virginia Sarria-Allende

Regulation of Entry and the Distortion of Industrial Organization

w10895 Dae-Wook Kim
Christopher R. Knittel

Biases in Static Oligopoly Models? Evidence from the California Electricity Market

w10887 Meghan Busse
Florian Zettelmeyer
Jorge Silva-Risso

$1000 Cash Back: Asymmetric Information in Auto Manufaturer Promotions

w10774 Christopher R. Knittel
Victor Stango

Compatibility and Pricing with Indirect Network Effects: Evidence from ATMs

w10738 Avi Dor
William Encinosa

How Does Cost-Sharing Affect Drug Purchases? Insurance Regimes in the Private Market for Prescription Drugs

w10665 Patrick Bajari
John Krainer

An Empirical Model of Stock Analysts' Recommendations: Market Fundamentals, Conflicts of Interest, and Peer Effects

w10605 Bronwyn H. Hall
Exploring the Patent Explosion

w10577 Dennis W. Carlton
Why Barriers to Entry are Barriers to Understanding

w10571 Patrick Bolton
Xavier Freixas
Joel Shapiro

Conflicts of Interest, Information Provision, and Competition in Banking

w10546 Stephen M. Maurer
Suzanne Scotchmer

Profit Neutrality in Licensing: The Boundary between Antitrust Law and Patent Law

w10544 Adriana Schor
Heterogeneous Productivity Response to Tariff Reduction: Evidence from Brazilian Manufacturing Firms

w10506 Ariel Pakes
Michael Ostrovsky
Steve Berry

Simple Estimators for the Parameters of Discrete Dynamic Games (with Entry/Exit Samples)

w10501 Chad Syverson
Market Structure and Productivity: A Concrete Example

w10482 Richard N. Clarke
Kevin A. Hassett
Zoya Ivanova
Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Assessing the Economic Gains from Telecom Competition

w10473 Paul L. Joskow
Jean Tirole

Retail Electricity Competition

w10472 Paul L. Joskow
Jean Tirole

Reliability and Competitive Electricity Markets

w10468 William N. Goetzmann
Vicente Pons-Sanz
S. Abraham Ravid

Soft Information, Hard Sell: The Role of Soft Information in the Pricing of Intellectual Property

w10465 John Cawley
David C. Grabowski
Richard A. Hirth

Factor Substitution and Unobserved Factor Quality in Nursing Homes

w10380 Leora Klapper
Luc Laeven
Raghuram Rajan

Business Environment and Firm Entry: Evidence from International Data

w10363 Luis Cabral
Ali Hortacsu

The Dynamics of Seller Reputation: Theory and Evidence from eBay

w10344 Jonathan Eaton
Samuel Kortum
Francis Kramarz

Dissecting Trade: Firms, Industries, and Export Destinations

w10334 Angelique Augereau
Shane Greenstein
Marc Rysman

Coordination vs. Differentiation in a Standards War: 56K Modems

w10323 Ralph Siebert
Klaus Gugler

Market Power versus Efficiency Effects of Mergers and Research Joint Ventures: Evidence from the Semiconductor Industry

w10212 Bronwyn H. Hall
Innovation and Diffusion


2003
w10165 Mihir Desai
Paul Gompers
Josh Lerner

Institutions, Capital Constraints and Entrepreneurial Firm Dynamics: Evidence from Europe

w10148 Judith A. Chevalier
Dina Mayzlin

The Effect of Word of Mouth on Sales: Online Book Reviews

w10133 Timothy Dunne
Shawn D. Klimek
Mark J. Roberts

Entrant Experience and Plant Exit

w10120 Fiona Scott Morton
Sharon Oster

Behavioral Decision-Making: An Application to the Setting of Magazine Subscription Prices

w10076 Patrick Bajari
Ali Hortacsu

Economic Insights from Internet Auctions: A Survey

w9965 Alvin J. Silk
Ernst R. Berndt

Scale and Scope Economies in the Global Advertising and Marketing Services Business

w9947 Erkan Erdem
James Tybout

Trade Policy and Industrial Sector Responses: Using Evolutionary Models to Interpret the Evidence

w9883 Elizabeth W. Croft
Barbara J. Spencer

Fees and Surcharging in automatic teller machine networks: Non-bank ATM providers versus large banks

w9871 Leemore S. Dafny
Entry Deterrence in Hospital Procedure Markets: A Simple Model of Learning-By-Doing

w9833 Michael Kremer
Christopher M. Snyder

Why Are Drugs More Profitable Than Vaccines?

w9810 Youngjae Lim
Chin Hee Hahn

Bankruptcy Policy Reform and Total Factor Productivity Dynamics in Korea

w9750 Frank R. Lichtenberg
Joel Waldfogel

Does Misery Love Company? Evidence from pharmaceutical markets before and after the Orphan Drug Act

w9744 Nicholas G. Rupp
George M. Holmes
Jeff DeSimone

Airline Schedule Recovery after Airport Closures: Empirical Evidence Since September 11th

w9730 Bronwyn H. Hall
Beethika Khan

Adoption of New Technology

w9728 Ali Hortacsu
Chad Syverson

Product Differentiation, Search Costs, and Competition in the Mutual Fund Industry: A Case Study of the S&P 500 Index Funds

w9726 Martin Pesendorfer
Philipp Schmidt-Dengler

Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Games

w9721 Glenn Ellison
A Model of Add-on Pricing

w9719 Luis Garicano
Thomas N. Hubbard

Specialization, Firms, and Markets: The Division of Labor Within and Between Law Firms

w9692 Alejandro Ibarra-Yunez
Spaghetti Regionalism or Strategic Foreign Trade: Some Evidence for Mexico

w9675 Steven Berry
Joel Waldfogel

Product Quality and Market Size

w9659 Raymond Fisman
Mayank Raturi

Does Competition Encourage Credit Provision? Evidence from African Trade Credit Relationships

w9639 Andrew B. Bernard
J. Bradford Jensen
Peter K. Schott

Falling Trade Costs, Heterogeneous Firms, and Industry Dynamics

w9636 Severin Borenstein
Nancy L. Rose

Do Airline Bankruptcies Reduce Air Service?

w9617 Haijime Katayama
Shihua Lu
James Tybout

Why Plant-Level Productivity Studies are Often Misleading, and an Alternative Approach to Interference

w9471 Martin Gaynor
William B. Vogt

Competition Among Hospitals


2002
w9303 Frank R. Lichtenberg
Tomas J. Philipson

The Dual Effects of Intellectual Property Regulations: Within- and Between- Patent Competition in the US Pharmaceuticals Industry

w9269 Philippe Aghion
Nicholas Bloom
Richard Blundell
Rachel Griffith
Peter Howitt

Competition and Innovation: An Inverted U Relationship

w9206 Gautam Gowrisankaran
Robert Town

Competition, Payer, and Hospital Quality

w9150 Edward L. Glaeser
Andrei Shleifer

The Injustice of Inequality

w9113 Jeffrey R. Campbell
Hugo A. Hopenhayn

Market Size Matters

w9024 David Romer
It's Fourth Down and What Does the Bellman Equation Say? A Dynamic Programming Analysis of Football Strategy

w8952 Ricardo Hausmann
Dani Rodrik

Economic Development as Self-Discovery

w8947 Michael R. Darby
Lynne G. Zucker

Growing by Leaps and Inches: Creative Destruction, Real Cost Reduction, and Inching Up

w8869 Eduardo Engel
Ronald Fischer
Alexander Galetovic

Competition in or for the Field: Which is Better?

w8847 James E. Anderson
Leslie Young

Imperfect Contract Enforcement

w8819 Tor Jakob Klette
Samuel Kortum

Innovating Firms and Aggregate Innovation

w8814 Howard Bodenhorn
Partnership and Hold-Up in Early America

w8806 Ulrich Kaiser
The Effects of Website Provision on the Demand for German Women's Magazines

w8798 Daniel A. Ackerberg
Marc Rysman

Unobserved Product Differentiation in Discrete Choice Models: Estimating Price Elasticities and Welfare Effects

w8737 Saul Lach
Existence and Persistence of Price Dispersion: an Empirical Analysis

w8728 Gene M. Grossman
Elhanan Helpman

Outsourcing in a Global Economy

w8724 Jonathan E. Haskel
Sonia C. Pereira
Matthew J. Slaughter

Does Inward Foreign Direct Investment Boost the Productivity of Domestic Firms?


2001
w8668 Fiona Scott Morton
Florian Zettelmeyer
Jorge Silva-Risso

Consumer Information and Price Discrimination: Does the Internet Affect the Pricing of New Cars to Women and Minorities?

w8667 Florian Zettelmeyer
Fiona Scott Morton
Jorge Silva-Risso

Cowboys or Cowards: Why are Internet Car Prices Lower?

w8629 Sanghamitra Das
Mark J. Roberts
James R. Tybout

Market Entry Costs, Producer Heterogeneity, and Export Dynamics

w8576 Bruce A. Blonigen
Chad P. Bown

Antidumping and Retaliation Threats

w8499 Lynne G. Zucker
Michael R. Darby
Jeff S. Armstrong

Commercializing Knowledge: University Science, Knowledge Capture, and Firm Performance in Biotechnology

w8477 Bruce A. Blonigen
Jee-Hyeong Park

Dynamic Pricing in the Presence of Antidumping Policy: Theory and Evidence

w8418 James R. Tybout
Plant- and Firm-Level Evidence on "New" Trade Theories

w8411 Steven J. Davis
Jack MacCrisken
Kevin M. Murphy

Economic Perspectives on Software Design: PC Operating Systems and Platforms

w8351 Austan Goolsbee
Competition in the Computer Industry

w8327 Andrew B. Bernard
J. Bradford Jensen

Who Dies? International Trade, Market Structure, and Industrial Restructuring

w8317 Austan Goolsbee
Amil Petrin

The Consumer Gains from Direct Broadcast Satellites and the Competition with Cable Television

w8300 Thomas N. Hubbard
Affiliation, Integration, and Information: Ownership Incentives and Industry Structure

w8262 Kent Smetters
Jennifer Gravelle

The Exchange Theory of Teenage Smoking and the Counterproductiveness of Moderate Regulation

w8251 Dan Elfenbein
Josh Lerner

Links and Hyperlinks: An Empirical Analysis of Internet Portal Alliances, 1995-1999

w8212 Frank A. Wolak
An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Hedge Contracts on Bidding Behavior

w8191 Frank A. Wolak
Identification and Estimation of Cost Functions Using Observed Bid Data: An Application to Electricity Markets

w8146 Eduardo M.R.A. Engel
Ronald D. Fischer
Alexander Galetovic

How to Auction an Essential Facility When Underhand Integration is Possible

w8145 David Genesove
Wallace P. Mullin

Rules, Communication and Collusion: Narrative Evidence from the Sugar Institute Case

w8143 David Genesove
Christopher Mayer

Loss Aversion and Seller Behavior: Evidence from the Housing Market

w8120 Olivier Blanchard
Francesco Giavazzi

Macroeconomic Effects of Regulation and Deregulation in Goods and Labor Markets

w8067 Dennis W. Carlton
Judith A. Chevalier

Free Riding and Sales Strategies for the Internet


2000
w8024 Ariel Pakes
A Framework for Applied Dynamic Analysis in I.O.

w7996 Jeffrey R. Brown
Austan Goolsbee

Does the Internet Make Markets More Competitive?

w7981 Judith A. Chevalier
Anil K. Kashyap
Peter E. Rossi

Why Don't Prices Rise During Periods of Peak Demand? Evidence from Scanner Data

w7961 Fiona Scott Morton
Florian Zettelmeyer
Jorge Silva Risso

Internet Car Retailing

w7944 Lisa George
Joel Waldfogel

Who Benefits Whom in Daily Newspaper Markets?

w7865 Nina Pavcnik
Do Pharmaceutical Prices Respond to Insurance?

w7851 Joshua S. Gans
David H. Hsu
Scott Stern

When Does Start-Up Innovation Spur the Gale of Creative Destruction?

w7712 Fiona Scott Morton
Florian Zettelmeyer

The Strategic Positioning of Store Brands in Retailer - Manufacturer Bargaining

w7710 C. Lanier Benkard
A Dynamic Analysis of the Market for Wide-Bodied Commercial Aircraft

w7634 George P. Baker
Thomas N. Hubbard

Contractibility and Asset Ownership: On-Board Computers and Governance in U.S. Trucking

w7513 Simon P. Anderson
Stephen Coate

Market Provision of Public Goods: The Case of Broadcasting


1999
w7391 Joel Waldfogel
Preference Externalities: An Empirical Study of Who Benefits Whom in Differentiated Product Markets

w7385 Jean Abraham
Ashish Arora
Martin Gaynor
Douglas Wholey

Enter at Your Own Risk: HMO Participation and Enrollment in the MedicareRisk Market

w7327 Mark McClellan
Douglas Staiger

The Quality of Health Care Providers

w7275 Bruce A. Blonigen
KaSaundra Tomlin

Size and Growth of Japanese Plants in the United States

w7248 Michael R. Darby
Lynne G. Zucker

Local Academic Science Driving Organizational Change: The Adoption of Biotechnology by Japanese Firms

w7205 Sherry Glied
Managed Care

w7137 David Genesove
The Nominal Rigidity of Apartment Rents

w7080 Steven T. Berry
Joel Waldfogel

Mergers, Station Entry, and Programming Variety in Radio Broadcasting

w4653 Lynne G. Zucker
Michael R. Darby
Marilynn B. Brewer

Intellectual Capital and the Birth of U.S. Biotechnology Enterprises


1998
w6809 Jeffrey R. Campbell
Jonas D.M. Fisher

Organizational Flexibility and Employment Dynamics at Young and Old Plants

w6577 Igal Hendel
Alessandro Lizzeri

The Role of Leasing under Adverse Selection

w6493 Tasneem Chipty
Ann Dryden Witte

Effects of Information Provision in an Vertically Differentiated Market

w6488 Jeffrey Milyo
Joel Waldfogel

The Effect of Price Advertising and Prices: Evidence in the Wake of 44 Liquormart

w6425 Sukkoo Kim
The Rise of Multiunit Firms in U.S. Manufacturing

w6423 Patricia Born
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

Does Spending on Medical Services Change as HMOs Grow and Mature?

w6387 Aviv Nevo
Measuring Market Power in the Ready-to-Eat Cereal Industry


1997
w6245 Thomas N. Hubbard
Consumer Beliefs and Buyer and Seller Behavior in the Vehicle Inspection Market

w6194 Igal Hendel
Alessandro Lizzeri

Adverse Selection in Durable Goods Markets

w6104 Tasneem Chipty
Ann Dryden Witte

An Empirical Investigation of Firms' Responses to Minimum Standards Regulations

w6075 Mark J. Roberts
Dylan Supina

Output Price and Markup Dispersion in Micro Data: The Roles of Producer Heterogeneity and Noise

w6037 Robert H. Porter
J. Douglas Zona

Ohio School Milk Markets: An Analysis of Bidding

w6032 David Genesove
Wallace P. Mullin

Predation and Its Rate of Return: The Sugar Industry, 1887-1914

w5981 David Genesove
Wallace P. Mullin

The Sugar Institute Learns to Organize Information Exchange


1996
w5853 Alessandra Casella
Product Standards Coalitions in a Market Without Borders

w5782 Dennis W. Carlton
A Critical Assessment of the Role of Imperfect Competition in Macroeconomics

w5749 Kuo-Liang Wang
Chung-Shu Wu

Exchange Rate Pass-through and Industry Characteristics: The Case of Taiwan's Exports of Midstream Petrochemical Products

w5741 Jean O. Lanjouw
Ariel Pakes
Jonathan Putnam

How to Count Patents and Value Intellectual Property: Uses of Patent Renewal and Application Data

w5728 Andrew Metrick
Richard Zeckhauser

Price versus Quantity: Market Clearing Mechanisms When Sellers Differ in Quality

w5726 Timothy F. Bresnahan
Scott Stern
Manuel Trajtenberg

Market Segmentation and the Sources of Rents from Innovation: Personal Computers in the Late 1980's

w5717 Fiona Scott Morton
The Strategic Response by Pharmaceutical Firms to the Medicaid Most-Favored-Customer Rules

w5663 Fiona Scott Morton
Entry and Predation: British Shipping Cartels 1879-1929

w5648 Rajesh Aggarwal
Andrew A. Samwick

Executive Compensation, Strategic Competition, and Relative Performance Evaluation: Theory and Evidence

w5585 Francine Lafontaine
Kathryn L. Shaw

The Dynamics of Franchise Contracting: Evidence from Panel Data

w5561 Steven Berry
Michael Carnall
Pablo T. Spiller

Airline Hubs: Costs, Markups and the Implications of Customer Heterogeneity

w5528 Steven Berry
Joel Waldfogel

Free Entry and Social Inefficiency in Radio Broadcasting

w5468 Severin Borenstein
Andrea Shepard

Sticky Prices, Inventories, and Market Power in Wholesale Gasoline Markets


1995
w5349 James Levinsohn
CARWARS: Trying to Make Sense of U.S.-Japan Trade Frictions in the Automobile and Automobile Parts Markets

w5226 Pinelopi K. Goldberg
Michael M. Knetter

Measuring the Intensity of Competition in Export Markets

w5077 John M. Abowd
Francis Kramarz
Antoine Moreau

Product Quality and Worker Quality

w5056 Kyle Bagwell
Robert W. Staiger

Collusion over the Business Cycle

w5047 Severin Borenstein
Nancy L. Rose

Do Airlines in Chapter 11 Harm Their Rivals? Bankruptcy and Pricing Behavior in U.S. Airline Markets


1994
w4861 David Genesove
Christopher J. Mayer

Equity and Time to Sale in the Real Estate Market

w4845 M. Ishaq Nadiri
Theofanis P. Mamuneas

Infrastructure and Public R&D Investments, and the Growth of Factor Productivity in US Manufacturing Industries

w4840 Glenn Ellison
Edward L. Glaeser

Geographic Concentration in U.S. Manufacturing Industries: A Dartboard Approach

w4826 Alvin J. Silk
Ernst R. Berndt

Costs, Institutional Mobility Barriers, and Market Structure: Advertising Agencies as Multiproduct Firms

w4463 Boyan Jovanovic
Glenn MacDonald

Competitive Diffusion


1993
w4473 Prajit K. Dutta
Saul Lach
Aldo Rustichini

Better Late Than Early: Vertical Differentiation in the Adoption of a New Technology

w4468 Katharine G. Abraham
Susan K. Taylor

Firms' Use of Outside Contractors: Theory and Evidence

h0050 Margaret Levenstein
Price Wars and the Stability of Collusion: A Study of the Pre-World War I Bromine Industry

h0049 Margaret Levenstein
Vertical Restraints in the Bromine Cartel: The Role of Distributors in Facilitating Collusion

w4363 Antonio Ciccone
Kiminori Matsuyama

Start-Up Costs and Pecuniary Externalities as Barriers to Economic Development


1992
w4185 Robert H. Porter
The Role of Information in U.S. Offshore Oil and Gas Lease Auctions

w4138 Severin Borenstein
A. Colin Cameron

Do Gasoline Prices Respond Asymmetrically to Crude Oil Price Changes?

w4098 Michael M. Knetter
International Comparisons of Pricing-to-Market Behavior

w4013 Robert H. Porter
J. Douglas Zona

Detection of Bid Rigging in Procurement Auctions

w3977 G. Steven Olley
Ariel Pakes

The Dynamics of Productivity in the Telecommunications Equipment Industry

t0119 Ariel Pakes
Paul McGuire

Computing Markov Perfect Nash Equilibria: Numerical Implications of a Dynamic Differentiated Product Model


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