Issue Information

• Published date: 01 December 2017
• Date: 01 December 2017
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/1756-2171.12153

The RAND Journal

of Economics

VOL. 48, NO. 4

Winter 2017

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLES

877 The impact of consumer inattention on insurer

pricing in the Medicare Part D program

KATE HO, JOSEPH HOGAN and FIONA SCOTT

MORTON

906 Competitive foreclosure

ROBERTO BURGUET and J ´

OZSEF S ´

AKOVICS

927 Advertising and attachment: exploiting loss

aversion through prepurchase information

HEIKO KARLE and HEINER SCHUMACHER

949 Advertising as a search deterrent

CHENGSI WANG

972 Consumers’ activism: the cottage cheese

boycott

IGAL HENDEL, SAUL LACH and YOSSI SPIEGEL

1004 Patent privateering, litigation, and R&D

incentives

JORGE LEMUS and EMIL TEMNYALOV

1027 Does buyer heterogeneity steepen or flatten

quantity discounts?

JOHN R. CONLON

1044 Knowledge transfer and partial equity

ownership

ARGHYA GHOSH and HODAKAMORITA

1068 The accuracy of hospital merger screening

methods

CHRISTOPHER GARMON

1103 The economic advantages of chain

organization

BRETT HOLLENBECK