Issue Information

• Date: 01 March 2018
• Published date: 01 March 2018
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/jems.12220

SPRING 2018

VOL. 27

NO. 1

Daniel S. Hosken , Luke M. Olson , and Loren K. Smith

Do retail mergers affect competition? Evidence from grocery

retailing

Adrian Chadi and Clemens Hetschko

The magic of the new: How job changes affect job satisfaction

P.J. Lamberson and Scott E. Page

First mover or higher quality? Optimal product strategy in markets

with positive feedbacks

Carla Guadalupi

Learning quality through prices and word-of-mouth communication

Shogo Kurokawa and Nobuo Matsubayashi

Price and quality competition with quality positions

Michael T. Rauh

The O-ring theory of the fi rm

Raja Kali , David Pastoriza , and Jean-François Plante

The burden of glory: Competing for nonmonetary incentives in

rank-order tournaments

Christian Seel

Contests with endogenous deadlines

Gaétan de Rassenfosse and Adam B. Jaffe

Are patent fees effective at weeding out low-quality patents?

Joseph E. Harrington Jr. , Kai Hüschelrath , and

Ulrich Laitenberger

Rent sharing to control noncartel supply in the German cement

market

VOLUME 27

NUMBER 1 SPRING

2018

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