Issue 4

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December 2020
Articles: 

Manipulation through Biased Product Reviews

We study a signal-jamming model of product review manipulation in which rational consumers consult product reviews and price to better estimate a product's quality, and a firm, whose quality is either

Strategic Complementarities in Bank Branching Decisions

I study how complementarities between rival banks’ branching decisions impacted the effects of banking deregulation in the early 1990s.

On Multitasking and Job Design in Relational Contracts

We investigate job design problems in relational contracting environments with multitasking and an aggregated and distorted performance measurement.

Competition, Collusion, and Spatial Sales Patterns – Theory and Evidence

This article studies competition in markets with transport costs and capacity constraints.

Local News Online: Aggregators, Geo-Targeting and the Market for Local News

We examine how placement of geo-targeted local news links on Google News affected local news consumption.

(Non-)Insurance Markets, Loss Size Manipulation and Competition: Experimental Evidence

The common view that insurer buyer power may effectively counteract provider market power critically rests on the idea that consumers and insurers have a joint interest in pushing for price and cost r