industry studies program
discussion paper series

Department of Economics
270 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215
617/353-6822

Professor Albert Ma, Program Director
Miriam Hatoum, Administrative Coordinator

You may request papers not available in electronic format (pdf) by contacting Ms. Hatoum.

Published papers are noted.

Links are either pdf files or links to faculty websites.

50) "Competition Between Networks: A Study of the Market for Yellow Pages,"
Marc Rysman, October 2000

49) "Public Rationing and Private Cost Incentives,"
Ching-to Albert Ma, October 2000

48) "Price and Quality Competition under Adverse Selection: Market Organization and Efficiency,"
Gary Biglaiser and Ching-to Albert Ma, July 2000

47) "Risk Selection and Matching in Performance-Based Contracting,"
Mingshan Lu, Ching-to Albert Ma, Lasheng Yuan, May 2000

46) "Competition Policy as Strategic Trade,"
Mark Rysman, April 2000

45) "Using Diagnoses to Describe Populations and Predict Costs,"
Arlene Ash, Randall Ellis, Gregory Pope, John Ayanian, David Bates, Helen Burstin, Lisa Iezzoni, Elizabeth McKay, Wei Yu, January 2000

44) "Can Asymetric Information Solve Puzzles From The Reemployment Bonus Experiments?"
Nuria Rodriguez-Planas, January 2000

43) "Cost-Minimizing Risk Adjustment,"
Yujing Shen and Randall P. Ellis, October 1999

42) "Endogenous Matching and the Empirical Determinants of Contract Form,"
Daniel A. Ackerberg and Maristella Botticini, January 1999

41) "The Effectiveness of Simple Auctions,"
Zvika Neeman, May 1998

40) "Network Incentives in Managed Health Care,"
Ching-To Albert Ma and Thomas G. Mcguire, October 1998

39) "The Relevance of Private Information in Mechanism Design,"
Zvika Neeman, September 1998

38) "Herding and the Winner's Curse in Markets with Sequential Bidders,"
Zvika Neeman and Gerhard O. Orosel, September 1998
Journal of Economic Theory 85 (1999), 91-121.

37) "Environmental Regulation and Productivity: Evidence from Oil Refineries,"
Eli Berman and Linda T.M. Bui, September 1998

36) "Violence and the U.S. Prohibition of Drugs and Alcohol,"
Jeffrey A. Miron. August 1998

35) "Moral Hazard, Insurance, and Some Collusion,"
Ingela Brundin and Ching-to Albert Ma. August 1998

34) "Using the Diagnostic Cost Group (DCG) Model to Measure Risk Selection in the Massachusetts State Employee Health Insurance Program,"
Wei Yu, Randall P. Ellis, Arlene Ash. March 1998

33) "The Fair Tax: A Tax Proposal to Smooth Business Cycles, Encourage Investment and Remove Biases Against Small Firms,"
Andrew Weiss, March 1998

32) "Playing Hard to Get: Theory and Evidence on Layoffs, Recalls and Unemployment,"
Nuria Rodriguez-Planas, January 1998

31) "Dollars and Performance: Cost Effectiveness of Substance Abuse Treatment in Maine,"
Matilde Pinto Machado, January 1998

30) "Cost and Quality Incentives in Health Care: Altruistic Providers,"
Ching-to Albert Ma, December 1997

29) "Termination and Coordination in Partnerships,"
Deborah Minehart and Zvika Neeman, March 1997
Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 8 (1999), 191-221.

28) "Environmental Regulation and Labor Demand: Evidence from the South Coast Air Basin,"
Eli Berman and Linda T. Bui, October 1997

27) "Cost and Incentives in a Mental Health and Substance Abuse Carve Out,"
Ching-to Albert Ma and Thomas G. McGuire, May 1997

26) "Health Insurance, Moral Hazard, and Managed Care,"
Ching-to Albert Ma and Michael H. Riordan, June 1997

25) "Solving Unit Commitment by a Unit Decommitment Method,"
Chung-Li Tseng, Chao-an Li, and Shmuel S. Oren, February 1997

24) "The Effect of Alcohol Prohibition on Alcohol Consumption,"
Jeffrey A. Miron, April 1997

23) "On Some Myths About Sequenced Common-value Auction,"
Maria Angeles de Frutos and Robert W. Rosenthal, April 1997

22) "Balladurette and Juppette: A Discrete Analysis of Scrapping Subsidies,"
Jerome Adda and Russell Cooper, May 1997

21) "Competition and Incentives with Non-Exclusive Contracts,"
Charles M. Kahn and Dilip Mookherjee, November 1996

20) "Financial Distress, Bank Debt Restructurings, and Layoffs: Theory and Evidence,"
A. Jorge Padilla and Alejandro Requejo, January 1997

19) "Sharing Default Information as a Borrower Discipline Device,"
A. Jorge Padilla and Marco Pagano, October 1996

18) "A Theory of Union Power and Labor Turnover,"
Kai-Uwe Kuhn and A. Jorge Padilla, October 1996

17) "Budgeting and Hierarchical Control,"
Dilip Mookherjee and Stefan Reichelstein, September 1996

16) "Contract Complexity, Incentives and the Value of Delegation,"
Nahum Melamad, Dilip Mookherjee, and Stefan Reichelstein, September 1996

15) "Some Estimates of Annual Alcohol Consumption Per Capita, 1870-1991,"
Jeffrey A. Miron, September 1996

14) "A Theory of Endogenous Coalition Structure,"
Debraj Ray and Rajiv Vohra, May 1996

13) "Investment Incentives of a Regulated Dominant Firm,"
Gary Biglaiser and Ching-to Albert Ma, April 1996

12) "Health Premium Payment Systems for State Employees,"
Randall P. Ellis, March 1996

11) "Experimentation, Imitation, and Stochastic Stability,"
Douglas Gale and Robert W. Rosenthal, March 1996

10) "Anticompetitive Vertical Integration by a Dominant Firm,"
Michael Riordan, March 1996

9) "Capacity Constraint and Monopoly Regulation under Asymmetric Information,"
Ching-to Albert Ma and Clemencia Torres, February 1996

8) "Machine Replacement and the Business Cycle: Lumps and Bumps,"
Russell Cooper, John Haltiwanger and Laura Power, August 1995

7) "Option Contracts and Vertical Foreclosure,"
Ching-to Albert Ma, October 1995

6) "Simultaneous Auctions with Synergies and Common Values,"
Robert W. Rosenthal and Ruqu Wang, August 1995

5) "Optimal Health Insurance and Provider Payment,"
Ching-to Albert Ma and Thomas G. McGuire, June 1995

4) "Ex Post Regret and the Decentralized Sharing of Information,"
Deborah Minehart and Suzanne Scotchmer, June 1995

3) "Predation with a Learning Curve"
Luis M.B. Cabral and Michael H. Riordan, February 1995

2) "Simultaneous Auctions with Synergies"
Vijay Krishna and Robert Rosenthal, March 1995

1) "Explaining the Choice Among Regulatory Plans in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry"
Stephen G. Donald and David E.M. Sappington, February 1995