Issue Information

• Date: 01 March 2017
• Published date: 01 March 2017
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/1756-2171.12147

The RAND Journal

of Economics

VOL. 48, NO. 1

Spring 2017

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLES

3 Resale price maintenance and manufacturer

competition for retail services

MATTHIAS HUNOLD and JOHANNES MUTHERS

24 Investment in concealable information by

biased experts

NAVIN KARTIK, FRANCES XU LEE and

WING SUEN

44 Mediated audits

MARTIN POLLRICH

69 Pass-through in a concentrated industry:

empirical evidence and regulatory

implications

NATHAN H. MILLER, MATTHEW OSBORNE and

GLORIA SHEU

94 Optimal contracts for research agents

YAPING SHAN

125 Prices and heterogeneous search costs

JOS´

E LUIS MORAGA-GONZ´

ALEZ,

ZSOLT S ´

ANDOR and MATTHIJS R. WILDENBEEST

147 The impact of firm size on dynamic incentives

and investment

CHANG-KOO CHI and KYOUNG JIN CHOI

178 Can mergers increase output? Evidence from

the lodging industry

ARTURS KALNINS, LUKE FROEB and

STEVEN TSCHANTZ

203 Managing buzz

ARTHUR CAMPBELL, DINA MAYZLINand

JIWOONG SHIN

230 Collusion and heterogeneity of firms

ICHIRO OBARA and FEDERICO ZINCENKO

250 Provider performance reports and consumer

welfare

HENRY Y. MAK

281 Dynamic limit pricing

FLAVIO TOXVAERD