Advances
Private Information of Nonpaternalistic Altruism: Exaggeration and Reciprocation of Generosity
Yuk-Fai Fong
Satisficing: A 'Pretty Good' Heuristic
Jonathan Brodie Bendor, Sunil Kumar, and David A. Siegel
Optimal Auctions with Simultaneous and Costly Participation
Gorkem Celik and Okan Yilankaya
Temptations in General Settings
Igor Kopylov
Updating Ambiguity Averse Preferences
Eran Hanany and Peter Klibanoff
Contributions
Continuous Preferences and Discontinuous Choices: How Altruists Respond to Incentives
Paul B. Seabright
Reputation, Career Concerns, and Job Assignments
Leonardo Martinez
Principal and Expert Agent
James M. Malcomson
Sale of a Deteriorating Asset via Sequential Search
Steven A. Lippman and John W. Mamer
The Efficiency of Observability and Mutual Linkage
Zhiwei Cui, Jian Zhai, and Xuan Liu
A Positive Theory of Income Taxation
Oriol Carbonell-Nicolau
Supply Theory sans Profit Maximization
Indraneel Dasgupta
The Dynamics of Collective Reputation
Jonathan Levin
Identifying Community Structures from Network Data via Maximum Likelihood Methods
Jernej Copic, Matthew O. Jackson, and Alan Kirman
Topics
Incentive Schemes in Peer-to-Peer Networks
Oksana Loginova, Haibin Lu, and X. Henry Wang
Why (and When) are Preferences Convex? Threshold Effects and Uncertain Quality
Trenton G. Smith and Attila Tasnádi
A Two-Step Subsidy Scheme to Overcome Network Externalities in a Dynamic Game
Tatsuhiro Shichijo and Yuji Nakayama
Oligopolistic Certification
Hans K. Hvide
Envy-Free and Efficient Minimal Rights: Recursive No-Envy
Diego A. Dominguez and Antonio Nicolo
Risk Premiums versus Waiting-Options Premiums: A Simple Numerical Example
Kenji Miyazaki and Makoto Saito
Inflation, Self Insurance and the Friedman Rule in Economies with Uninsurable Idiosyncratic Risks
Sunanda Roy
Advertising and Cost Reduction
Giovanni Immordino
Directed Search, Rationing and Wage Dispersion
Kenjiro Hori
Optimism and Bargaining Inefficiency
Duozhe Li and Yat Fung Wong
Fair Depreciation: A Shapley Value Approach
Danny Ben-Shahar and Eyal Sulganik
Market Competition and Lower Tier Incentives
Bernd Theilen
Vertical Differentiation, Social Networks and Compatibility Decisions
Hend Ghazzai and Rim Lahmandi-Ayed
Asymmetric Bertrand-Edgeworth Oligopoly and Mergers
Daisuke Hirata
Consumer Rationing and the Cournot Outcome
Jason J. Lepore
Representations and Identities for Homogeneous Technologies
Miguel Espinosa, Pietro Bonaldi, and Hernán Vallejo
Monitoring Gains and Decentralization
Bernd Theilen
Cross-Cultural Trade and Institutional Stability
Marianna Belloc
Universal Service Obligations and Competition with Asymmetric Information
Jean-Christophe Poudou, Michel Roland, and Lionel Thomas