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CONTENTS Volume LVI Number 1, March 2008 CHRISTIAN ROJAS Price Competition in U.S. Brewing DONGHUN KIM AND RONALD W. COTTERILL Cost Pass-Through in Differentiated Product Markets: The Case of U.S. Processed Cheese AMIT GANDHI, LUKE FROEB, STEVEN TSCHANTZ AND GREGORY J. WERDEN Post-Merger Product Repositioning WEN ZHOU Large is Beautiful: Horizontal Mergers for Better Exploitation of Production Shocks MARK D. MANUSZAKCHARLES C. MOUL Prices and Endogenous Market Structure in Office Supply Superstores SANDRO BRUSCO AND GIUSEPPE LOPOMO Budget Constraints and Demand Reduction in Simultaneous Ascending-Bid Auctions DAVID S. EVANS AND MICHAEL A. SALINGER The Role of Cost in Determining When Firms Offer Bundles ALEXANDER E. SAAK The Value of Private Information in Monopoly SILKE J. FORBES The Effect of Service Quality and Expectations on Customer Complaints Number 2, June 2008 JOSEPH E. HARRINGTON Sr Optimal Corporate Leniency Programs E. AVENEL Strategic Vertical Integration Without Foreclosure SIMON LOERTSCHER Market Making Oligopoly BOO-SUNG KANG AND STEVEN L. PULLER The Effect of Auction Format On Efficiency and Revenue in Divisible Goods Auctions: A Test Using Korean Treasury Auctions MARCUS ASPLUND, RICKARD ERIKSSON AND NIKLAS STRAND Price Discrimination in Oligopoly: Evidence from Regional Newspapers CONTENTS Volume LVI Number 1, March 2008 CHRISTIAN ROJAS Price Competition in U.S. Brewing DONGHUN KIM AND RONALD W. COTTERILL Cost Pass-Through in Differentiated Product Markets: The Case of U.S. Processed Cheese AMIT GANDHI, LUKE FROEB, STEVEN TSCHANTZ AND GREGORY J. WERDEN Post-Merger Product Repositioning WEN ZHOU Large is Beautiful: Horizontal Mergers for Better Exploitation of Production Shocks MARK D. MANUSZAKCHARLES C. MOUL Prices and Endogenous Market Structure in Office Supply Superstores SANDRO BRUSCO AND GIUSEPPE LOPOMO Budget Constraints and Demand Reduction in Simultaneous Ascending-Bid Auctions DAVID S. EVANS AND MICHAEL A. SALINGER The Role of Cost in Determining When Firms Offer Bundles ALEXANDER E. SAAK The Value of Private Information in Monopoly SILKE J. FORBES The Effect of Service Quality and Expectations on Customer Complaints Number 2, June 2008 JOSEPH E. HARRINGTON Sr Optimal Corporate Leniency Programs E. AVENEL Strategic Vertical Integration Without Foreclosure SIMON LOERTSCHER Market Making Oligopoly BOO-SUNG KANG AND STEVEN L. PULLER The Effect of Auction Format On Efficiency and Revenue in Divisible Goods Auctions: A Test Using Korean Treasury Auctions MARCUS ASPLUND, RICKARD ERIKSSON AND NIKLAS STRAND Price Discrimination in Oligopoly: Evidence from Regional Newspapers SEVERIN BORENSTEIN, JAMES BUSHNELL. CHRISTOPHER R. KNITTEL AND CATHERINE WOLFRAM Inefficiencies and Market Power in Financial Arbitrage: A Study of California’s Electricity Markets ANTONIO ACCONCIA, RICCARDO MARTINA AND SALVATORE PICCOLO Vertical Restraints Under Asymmetric Information: On The Role of Participation Constraints A. MITCHELL POLINSKY AND DANIEL L. RUBINFELDZ The Deadweight Loss Of Coupon Remedies for Price Overcharges Notes and Comments on the JIE Website: JEAN J. GABSZEWICZ, DIDIER LAUSSEL AND MICHEL LE BRETON The Mixed Strategy Nash Equilibrium of the Television News Scheduling Game The JIE’s Annual ‘Best Article’ Prize JIE Manuscript Turnaround Times Number 3, September 2008 XAVIER VIVES Innovation and Competitive Pressure TSUYOSHI NAKAMURA AND HIROSHI OHASHI Effects of Technology Adoption on Productivity and Industry Growth: A Study of Steel Refining Furnaces ROBERTO FELICI AND MARCELLO PAGNINI Distance, Bank Heterogeneity and Entry in Local Banking Markets DENNIS W. CARLTON AND JAMES D. DANA, Jr. Product Variety and Demand Uncertainty: Why Markups Vary with Quality JAY PIL CHOI Mergers with Bundling in Complementary Markets SYMPOSIUM ON THE DYNAMICS OF GASOLINE PRICING Edited by Thomas N. Hubbard THOMAS N. HUBBARD Introduction to the Symposium on the Dynamics of Gasoline Pricing JEREMY A. VERLINDA Do Rockets Rise Faster and Feathers Fall Slower in an Atmosphere of Local Market Power? Evidence from the Retail Gasoline Market GEORGE DELTAS Retail Gasoline Price Dynamics and Local Market Power FELIPE BALMACEDA AND PAULA SORUCO Asymmetric Dynamic Pricing in a Local Gasoline Retail Market MATTHEW LEWIS Price Dispersion and Competition with Differentiated Sellers JAN BOUCKAERT, HANS DEGRYSE, JORGE FERNANDEZ RUIZ AND MIGUEL GARCIA CESTONA Softening Competition by Inducing Switching in Credit Markets: A Correction Notes and Comments on the JIE Website: MARCO PAGNOZZI Are Disadvantaged Bidders Doomed in Ascending Auctions? Number 4, December 2008 TOBIAS KRETSCHMER Splintering and Inertia in Network Industries TOMMASO M. VALLETTI AND CARLO CAMBINI Information Exchange and Competition in Communications Networks YONGMIN CHEN Dynamic Price Discrimination with Asymmetric Firms YASUYUKI TODO AND SATOSHI SHIMIZUTANI Overseas R&D Activities and Home Productivity Growth: Evidence from Japanese Firm-Level Data (e% MARIE GOPPELSROEDER AND MAARTEN PIETER SCHINKEL JAN TUINSTRA Quantifying the Scope for Efficiency Defense in Merger Control: The Werden-Froeb-Index DONGLING HUANG, CHRISTIAN ROJAS AND FRANK BASS What Happens When Demand is Estimated with a Misspecified Model? T.RANDOLPH BEARD AND MICHAEL L. STERN Continuous Cross Subsidies and Quantity Restrictions Notes and Comments on the JIE Website: ARIJIT MUKHERJEE Patent Protection and R&D with Endogenous Market Structure NAVA KAHANA, CHEMI GOTLIBOVSKI, SREYA KOLAY AND GREG SHAFFER Bundling and Menus of Two-Part Tariffs: Comment 4th “Best Article of the Year’ Prize Awarded The JIE’s Annual ‘Best Article’ Prize JIE Manuscript Turnaround Times Call for Papers