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Current Issue: Volume 21, Issue 1 (January 2026)

Table of Contents

Articles

Choice or competition: does integration benefit everyone?
       Yuichiro Kamada and Fuhito Kojima
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1–21
Transparent matching mechanisms
       Markus Möller
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22–43
Naive calibration
       Yair Antler and Benjamin Bachi
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44–70
Markovian persuasion
       Ehud Lehrer and Dimitry Shaiderman
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71–98
Mechanism design for acquisition of/stochastic evidence
       Elchanan Ben-Porath, Eddie Dekel, and Barton L. Lipman
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99–131
Coordination with sequential information acquisition
       Xiaoye Liao and Michal Szkup
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132–166
Strategic exits in stochastic partnerships: the curse of profitability
       Boli Xu
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167–203
Bayesian games with nested information
       Royi Jacobovic, Yehuda John Levy, and Eilon Solan
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204–240
Chaos and unpredictability with time inconsistent policy makers
       Marco Battaglini
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241–280
Lemonade from lemons: information design and adverse selection
       Navin Kartik and Weijie Zhong
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281–324
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  • Jérôme Renault, Eilon Solan, and Nicolas Vieille, Strategic experimentation with privately observed payoffs
  • Alex Smolin and Takuro Yamashita, Information design in smooth games (Supplementary appendix)
  • Jawwad Noor and Fernando Payro, Belief in mean reversion and the law of small numbers
  • Ian Ball and Teemu Pekkarinen, Optimal auction design with contingent payments and costly verification
  • Takuo Sugaya and Alexander Wolitzky, Repeated games with many players
  • Katy Bergstrom and William Dodds, A general theory of inverse welfare functions (Supplementary appendix, Supplementary appendix)
  • Jeffrey C. Ely, Ruth, anthony, and clarence (Supplementary appendix)
  • Emma Moreno-García and Juan Pablo Torres-Martinez, Coalitional manipulability in school choice
  • Benjamin Hébert and Weijie Zhong, Engagement maximization
  • Nikhil Vellodi, Ratings design and barriers to entry
  • Kfir Eliaz and Ran Spiegler, News media as suppliers of narratives (and information)
  • Matthias Lang and Cédric Wasser, Benefits and challenges of ambiguous product information
  • Xiaoyu Cheng, Improving robust decisions with data
  • John Morgan, Justin Tumlinson, and Felix Vardy, When autarky trumps free and costless trade
  • Alp Atakan, Michael Richter, and Matan Tsur, Efficient investment, search, and sorting in matching markets
  • Nicola Amendola, Luis Araujo, and Leo Ferraris, Physical vs digital currency: a difference that makes a difference
  • Anna M. Sanktjohanser, Optimally stubborn: how long to hold and who will fold?
  • Gaoji Hu, Jiangtao Li, John K.-H. Quah, and Rui Tang, Coarse revealed preference (Supplementary appendix)
  • Aram Grigoryan, A continuum model as a limit of large finite matching markets
  • Rumen Kostadinov, Regret in durable-good monopoly
  • Yaron Azrieli and John N. Rehbeck, Marginal stochastic choice
  • Daehyun Kim and Ichiro Obara, Asymptotic value of monitoring structures in stochastic games
  • Francesco Squintani, Strategic disclosure in networks
  • Michael Greinecker and Michael Andrew Nielsen, Can intergenerational equity be operationalized?: Correction
  • Maxwell Rosenthal, Simple incentives and diverse beliefs
  • Felix Kubler, Larry Selden, and Xiao Wei, Time consistency, temporal resolution indifference and the separation of time and risk (Supplementary appendix)
  • Teddy Mekonnen, How to segment a search market: information design and directed search

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