Corporate & Securities Law

The “New” Issue of JLE is Online

The new issue of the Journal of Law & Economics is available online. This is an exciting development for me because the issue includes my paper with Ben Klein on The Economics of Slotting Contracts (SSRN version available here), and because it has been a very long wait to see the paper in final form (note the new release is of the August 2007 issue of JLE). The primary contribution of the paper is to explain the incidence of shelf space contracts as a consequence of the normal competitive process and examine the conditions under which those contracts will take the form of a lump sum per-unit time payment rather than a wholesale price or volume discount. We also have provide some empirical evidence that is consistent with the time series and cross-sectional incidence of slotting across product categories (see also here).

Readers with an interest in antitrust might want to also check out the Duso, Neven & Roller event study analysis of EU merger decisions and Taylor’s analysis of NIRA cartel performance. And to be filed under the category of “law of unintended consequences,” Jonathan Klick and Thomas Strattman also have a very interesting empirical piece demonstrating that state mandates requiring coverage of diabetes treatments have resulted in offsetting behavioral changes and higher Body Mass Index after the mandates.

The Klein and Wright abstract is below the fold:

Full post as published by Truth on the Market on April 17, 2008 (boomark / email).