177 papers
Openness and Rigidity of Islamic Law: Jurists' Motives for Change Within the Islamic Legal System
Hania Abou Shamat
Incumbents and Criminals in the Indian National Legislature
Toke Aidt, Miriam A. Golden, Devesh Tiwari
Size matters: An Index on Regulation and Public Sector at Decentralized Levels of Government
Rocio Albert, Rogelio Biazzi, Francisco Cabrillo
A Risk Based Approach to the Problem of Credible Commitment in Public Private Partnership: The Case of Vietnam
Eduardo Araral
Search Engine Competition with Network Externalities
Cedric Argenton, Jens Prüfer
Transactional Legal Opinions as Evidence of the Tradeoffs between Business Registration and Contractual Costs
Benito Arruñada, Carlos A. Manzanares
Counter-Incentives in Incomplete Contracts
Laure Athias, Raphael Soubeyran
Judges, Courts and Economic Development: the Impact of Judicial Human Capital on the Efficiency and Accuracy of the Court System
Gwendolyn G. Ball, Jay P. Kesan
Female preachers and reshaping of Islamic authority in Pakistan, Nigeria and Syria: Lessons in institutional change and consolidation
Masooda Bano
Brazilian Supreme Court and the Rule of Law construction: Building the Legislative Quality Index (LQI)
Leon Victor de Queiroz Barbosa, José Mario Wanderley Gomes Neto, Dalson Britto Figueiredo Filho
Income and Democracy: Revisiting the Evidence,
Cristian Bartolucci, Enrique Moral-Benito
The greenwashing machine: Is CSR more than communication?
Remi Bazillier, Julien Vauday
Incentives versus culture? Why turnover intentions differ across European welfare regimes
Janine Bernhardt
Democracy's Dimesions: Implications & A Case Study
Roger R Betancourt
Relational Contract and Endogenous Contractual Incompleteness. Experimental Evidence.
Jean Beuve, Claudine Desrieux
Trade Shocks, Mass Mobilization and Decolonization: Evidence from India's Independence Struggle
Rikhil Bhavnani, Saumitra Jha
The Feudal Revolution and Europe's Rise: Institutional Divergence in the Christian and Muslim Worlds before 1500 CE
Lisa Blaydes, Eric Chaney
The impact of the institutional environment on irrigation practices: Econometric analysis based on farming in Charente-Maritime, France
Olivier Bouba-Olga, Ornella Boutry
Patchwork Para-militarism? Social and Economic Organization in the Ulster Volunteer Force before 1918
Tim Bowman, Graham Brownlow
The Economics of Multi-level Governance: on the Benefits of Overlapping Jurisdictions
Eric Brousseau, Emmanuel Raynaud
Private entrepreneurs in public services: A longitudinal examination of outsourcing and statization of prisons
Sandro Cabral, Sergio Lazzarini, Paulo Furquim de Azevedo
“Flying Land”: Intergovernmental Cooperation in Local Economic Development in China
Meina Cai
Industrial Policy: Opportunity to Innovate with Responsibility
Rafaela Carvalho, Antônio Porto
Lost in Transition? How Civil War Violence Can Impair the Foundations for Market Development - The Case of Tajikistan
Alessandra Cassar, Pauline Grosjean, Sam Whitt
Specificity of Control: The Case of Mexico's Ejido Reform
Paul Castañeda Dower, Tobias Pfutze
A New Institutional Economics Approach to Government Regulation
Tamer Çetin, Fuat Oğuz
An Economic Analysis of Civil versus Common Law Property
Yun-chien Chang, Henry E. Smith
The auction versus negotiation trade off in public procurement under political scrutiny
Eshien Chong, Carine Staropoli, Anne Yvrande-Billon
What Motivates Organizational Changes? An Empirical Analysis in the French Water Industry
Eshien Chong, Stéphane Saussier, Brian Silverman
Child Labor and the Global Cocoa Industry’s Adoption of Certification:
Alexandra Clark
Innovation and Learning during the Crisis: Evidence from firm level data for Eastern European countries
Paulo Correa, Mariana Iootty
Trade and income: using civil wars in transit countries as external shocks on trade
Mathieu Couttenier, Vincent Vicard
Appropriability and incentives with complementary innovations
Massimo D'Antoni, Maria Alessandra Rossi
The case for a trusteeship approach to corporate governance
Giuseppe Danese
Frontier Violence: Property Rights, Commons Management Costs and Distributive Conflict
Jean Daudelin
Renegotiations and Contract Renewals in PPPs. An Empirical Analysis
Julie de Brux, Jean Beuve, Stéphane Saussier
To Allot or Not To Allot? Managing Public Services in Europe
Julie de Brux, Claudine Desrieux
Law & Economics Perspectives on Electricity Regulation
Adrien De HAUTECLOQUE, Yannick PEREZ
Are natural resources cursed? An investigation of the dynamic effects of mineral fuels exports on governance and competition
Donato De Rosa, Mariana Iootty
Confidence in Judicial Institutions: An Empirical Approach
Bruno Deffains, Ludivine Roussey
Modeling Cognitive Social Capital and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as Preconditions for Sustainable Networks of Relations
Giacomo Degli Antoni, Lorenzo Sacconi
Modeling of Public Trust in Basic Social and Political Institutions: a Comparative Econometric Analysis
Olga Demidova
Institutional Design and Market Efficiency: Evidence from the New York Stock Exchange IPO
Stephen Diamond, Jennifer Kuan
Entrenched Insiders: Limited Access Order in Mexico
Alberto Diaz-Cayeros
Entrenched Insiders: limited access order in Mexico
Alberto Diaz-Cayeros
Executive Pay Regulation: What Regulators, Shareholders, and Managers Can Learn from Major Sports Leagues
Helmut Dietl, Tobias Duschl, Markus Lang
Incentive Effects of Bonus Taxes
Helmut M. Dietl, Martin Grossmann, Markus Lang, Simon Wey
The Size of Government Bureaucracy: Theory and Evidence
Marina Dodlova
Right-to-Carry Laws, Stand-Your-Ground Laws, and Justifiable Homicides
John J. Donohue, Ivan C. Ribeiro
Judicial Legitimacy: The Public Perception of the Courts as the Least Political Branch
John N. Drobak
Dynamic Collective Choice with Endogenous Status Quo
Wiola DZIUDA, Antoine LOEPER
Blinded by the Light: Ownership Structure and Incentivizing Transparency
Robert Eberhart, Michael Gucwa
Cognition and Governance Structure
Li Feng, George Hendrikse
How Tyranny Paved the Way to Wealth and Democracy: The Democratic Transition in Ancient Greece
Robert K. Fleck, F. Andrew Hanssen
Regulatory Externalities as a Driver of Corporate Environmental Performance
Adam Fremeth, J. Myles Shaver
Is Regulation by Milestones Efficiency Enhancing? An experimental Study of Environmental Protection
Andreas Freytag, Werner Güth, Hannes Koppel, Leo Wangler
Fiscal Effects of Municipal Amalgamation
Benedikt Fritz
The Scope of Open Licences in Cultural Contents Production and Distribution
Massimiliano Gambardella
Cheap Credit and Incentives in Financial Institutions: The Case of Global Microfinance
Mark Garmaise, Gabriel Natividad
Why Do U.S. States Adopt Public-Private Partnership Enabling Legislation?
Rick Geddes, Benjamin Wagner
Why Do Similar Reforms Produce Dissimilar Outcomes? Privatization Effectiveness in the Shadow of Ukraine's Orange Revolution
Scott Gehlbach, John S. Earle
Delegation and Pay-for-Performance: Evidence from Industrial Sales Force
Mrinal Ghosh, Francine Lafontaine, Desmond Lo
Product Form Choice: Selling Systems versus Components in Industrial Markets
Mrinal Ghosh, Shantanu Dutta, Kellilynn M. Frias
Does Vertical Integration Decrease Prices? Evidence from the Paramount Antitrust Case of 1948
Ricard Gil
The Demand for Mutual Monitoring
Timo Goeschl, Johannes Jarke
A History of Violence: The Culture of Honor as a Determinant of Homicide in the US South
Pauline Grosjean
Conflict Trap or State Building? International Wars, Civil Conflicts and Social and Political Preferences
Pauline Grosjean
What is Law? A Coordination Account of the Characteristics of Legal Order
Gillian K. Hadfield, Barry R. Weingast
Promises, promises: Vote-buying, institutionalized political parties and political budget cycles
Marek Hanusch, Philip Keefer
Does franchise extension reduce short-run economic growth? Evidence from New South Wales, 1862-1882
Edwyna Harris
Federal Competition and Economic Growth
John William Hatfield, Katrina Kosec
Philanthropy, CSR and NGOs' activism
Sophie Hatte
Judicial Discretion and Civil Procedure: The Effect of Ideology on Rule 12(b)(6) Motions after Twombly and Iqbal
Kevin Heilenday, John M. de Figueiredo
Regulative, Normative and Cognitive Institutional Supports for Relational Contracting in Infrastructure Projects
Witold Henisz, Raymond Levitt
Spinning Gold: The Financial Returns to External Stakeholder Engagement
Witold Henisz, Sinziana Dorobantu, Lite Nartey
On the Link Between Government Ideology and Corruption in the Public Sector
Zohal Hessami
NONMARKET STRATEGY FOR CORPORATE MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
Guy Holburn, Rick Vanden Bergh
Gathering Information before Signing a Contract: Experimental Evidence
Eva I. Hoppe, Patrick W. Schmitz
Public-private partnerships versus traditional procurement: Innovation incentives and information gathering
Eva I. Hoppe, Patrick W. Schmitz
To Become Homo Economicus: The Communist Party’s Embrace of China’s Monopolistic Sectors
Yunzhi Hu, Yang Yao
The Coevolution of Economic and Political Development from Monarchy to Democracy
Fali Huang
Public-Private Partnerships and Opportunism: New Empirical Evidence in the French Water Industry
Freddy Huet, Simon Porcher
Competition, Governance, and Relationship-Specific Investments: Theory and Implications for Strategy
Nan Jia
Partisan Policies, Fiscal Constraints, and the Growth of Regulation
Noel D. Johnson, Matthew Mitchell, Steven Yamarik
Trade, Taxes, and Terroir
Noel Johnson, Raphael Franck, John Nye
The Lesser Evil: Involuntary Governance Choices in the Electricity Industry
Albert Jolink, Eva Niesten
Inequality, Development, and the Stability of Democracy -- Lipset and Three Critical Junctures in German History
Florian Jung, Uwe Sunde
Strategic Spillovers
Daniel B. Kelly
Does Agriculture play any Role in Poverty Alleviation in Pakistan?
Adiqa Kiani
Public provisioning of telecommunication networks - Historical case studies and application to broadband development
Fabian Kirsch
Financial Literacy in View of the Financial Crisis: Evidence from Russia
Leora Klapper, Annamaria Lusardi, Georgios Panos
Political vs managerial control and public service prices: Evidence from Austrian water utilities
Michael Klien
Law as Byproduct: Theories of Private Law Production
Bruce H. Kobayashi, Larry E. Ribstein
Prosecution Associations in Industrial Revolution England: Private Providers of Public Goods?
Mark Koyama
On the Role of Emotions in Games
Peter Kulasza
Risky Business - Uncertain Access to Specialized Complementary Assets, Vertical Integration, and the Commercial Performance of New Products
Venkat Kuppuswamy
Brokers as a governance structure ? Evidence from the French Imports Industry of Fresh Produce
Karine Latouche, Elodie Rouvière
Efficiency in Public & Private French Water Industry: Prospects for Benchmarking
Aude Le Lannier, Simon Porcher
Property as a Legal Construct (or, why Philosophers, Social Scientists, and Lawyers Think Differently about Property Rights)
Amnon Lehavi
Vertical relationships at airports: impact on retail sales and rent revenue to an airport
Nina Leheyda, Jürgen Müller, Roman Pashkin
Accountability in One-party Government: Rethinking the Success of Chinese Economic Reform
Yuan Li, Mario Gilli
The deficit of cooperative attitudes and trust in post-transition economies
Maria Lissowska
Government spending and re-election: Quasi-experimental evidence from Brazilian municipalities
Stephan Litschig, Kevin Morrison
Transparent Authoritarianism?: An Analysis of Political and Economic Barriers to Greater Government Transparency in China
Peter Lorentzen, Pierre Landry, John Yasuda
Do Village Elections in China Select Better Qualified Leaders? - Meritocratic Selection in China’s Grassroots Democracy
Mi Luo
When to Sell Your Idea: Theory and Evidence from the Movie Industry
Hong Luo
Toward a “Choice Cost Economics”: A Positive and Generalized Model of Rational Choice for Institutional Economics
Kevin Lyons
Is Bigger Better? Firm Size and Governmental Influence
Jeffrey T. Macher, John W. Mayo
IS A PUBLIC REGULATION OF FOOD PRICE VOLATILITY FEASIBLE IN AFRICA? AN ARCH APPROACH IN KENYA
Elodie Maitre d'Hotel, Tristan Le Cotty
Resource Windfall and Corruption: Evidence from Peru
Stanislao Maldonado
Regulation, Innovation and Productivity
Francisco Marcos, Juan Santaló
How overlap in informal institutions affects international economic relations
Robbert Maseland
Parasitical Cultures and the Origins of Institutions
Robbert Maseland
The GAO's Bid Protest Mechanism: Effectiveness and Fairness in Defense Acquisition?
Steven Maser, Vladimir Subbotin, Fred Thompson
On the Evolution of Collective Enforcement Institutions: Communities and Courts
Scott E. Masten, Jens Prüfer
Bridging or Bonding: Economic Payoff to Social Capital, with an Application to Russia
Rinat Menyashev, Leonid Polishchuk
Property Law Culture: Public Law, Private Preferences & The Psychology of Expropriation
Cherie Metcalf
Property Rights, Resource Access & Long Run Growth
Cherie Metcalf, Ian Keay
Insurance for Financial Crisis?
Faure Michael, Heine Klaus
Transaction costs, embeddedness and the ex ante distribution of quasi rent
Bruno V. Miranda, Maria Sylvia M. Saes
Corruption in Procurement and Shadow Campaign Financing: Evidence from Russia
Maxim Mironov, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
License to Govern: The Institution of Agricultural Policy Making in Norway
Klaus Mittenzwei, Frode Veggeland, David S. Bullock, Klaus Salhofer
Economic Governance of Property Rights: A Comparative Analysis on the Collection of Royalties in Genetically Modified Soybean Seeds
Guilherme F. A. Monteiro, Decio Zylbersztajn
Economic growth and state capacity in the ancient world: the limits of institutionalism
Ian Morris
German Jewish Emigres and U.S. Innovation
Petra Moser, Alessandra Voena, Fabian Waldinger
How the East was Lost: Institutions, Persistence and Reversal of Fortune in 16th Century Portuguese Empire in Asia
Bernardo Mueller
The Coevolution of Culture and Institutions in Seventeenth Century England
Peter Murrell, Martin Schmidt
Authority and Performance in Vertical Relations: Satellite-tracked Evidence
Gabriel Natividad
Does Education Affect Trust? Evidence from Russia.
Timur Natkhov
Industrial clusters, personalized exchange and construction of economic institutions
Victor Nee, Sonja Opper
The ‘Fundamental Transformation’ Reconsidered: Dixit vs. Williamson
Antonio Nicita, Massimiliano Vatiero
Balancing power and the unintended governance structure in the Dutch electricity industry
Eva Niesten, Albert Jolink
Incentives, opportunism and behavioral uncertainty in electricity industries
Eva Niesten, Albert Jolink
In the Shadow of Violence: The Problem of Development in Limited Access Societies
Douglass North, John Wallis, Steven Webb, Barry Weingast, Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Gabriella Montinola, Jong-Sung You
Ethnic Concentration and Public Goods Provision: A Study of
Christopher Paik
The Shadow of Hierarchy - How to Sample a Hidden Population of Former Employees?
Danny Pająk
Contracting Officer Workload and Contractual Terms
Warren Patrick L.
Picking the Right Players: Applying the Perceptive Interpretation of Game Theory to Rational-Choice Institutionalism
Tomer Perry
The Empire Strikes Coins: Islamic Conquests, Iconoclasm and Currency Debasement in Byzantium, 650-900 AD
Athanassios Pitsoulis, Thushyanthan Baskaran
Taming the (Not So) Stationary Bandit: Turnover of Ruling Elites and Protection of Property Rights
Leonid Polishchuk, Georgiy Syunyaev
State Corporatism and Democratic Industrial Relations in Spain 1926-1935. A Reappraisal
Marc Prat, Oscar Molina
Who sells land?A study in rural vietnam
Gwendoline PROMSOPHA
Learning in inter-organizational networks: an individual perspective
Nada Rejeb, Bertrand V. Quelin
Private Interest Based Multilateral Loans
Julien Reynaud, Julien Vauday
German "Ordnungstheorie" From the Perspective of the New Institutional Economics
Rudolf Richter
The New Institutional Economics of "The Market Itself". An Attempted Answer to a Complaint by Ronald Coase
Rudolf Richter
Power Transmission Network Investment as an Anticipation Problem
Vincent RIOUS, Yannick PEREZ, Jean-Michel Glachant
Entrepreneurial Finance and Performance: A Transaction Cost Economics Approach
Alicia Robb, Robert Seamans
Media and Economic Development – Sub Saharan Africa
Sanjukta Roy, Michael Behrman
Collective Action through Marketing Boards: An Efficient Hybrid Governance?
Annie Royer, Claude Ménard, Daniel-Mercier Gouin
Analyzing Inter-Firm Relationships: The Knowledge Perspective
Maria Sylvia M. Saes, Vivian -Lara S. Silva, Roberta C. Souza, Paula S. B. Schnaider
Fraudulent Democracy? An Analysis of Argentina's Infamous Decade using Supervised Machine Learning
Sebastian M. Saiegh, Francisco Cantu
Lame Ducks and Divided Government: How Voters Control the Unaccountable (Rational Voters and Their Strategic Use of the Separation of Powers)
Mark Schelker
Value creation and value appropriation in networks: an empirical analysis in the South region of Brazil
Carla M. Schmidt, Maria S. M. Saes, Guilherme F. A. Monteiro
The Role of Informal Institutions in Building the Institutional Framework of an African State: The Case of the Kanuri in Nigeria.
Valentin Seidler
Female Salaries and Careers in British Banking, 1915-41
Andrew Seltzer
Intermediaries in Corruption: An Experiment
Danila Serra, Mikhail Drugov, John Hamman
States, Markets and the Instruments of Policy-Making : Bankruptcy Law vs. the Lender of Last Resort
Jerome Sgard, Eric Brousseau
Hierarchical Structures and Dynamic Incentives
Dongsoo Shin, Roland Strausz
Sticking to the Rules or Shaping Them - Corporations between Market- and Non-Market-Orientation
Jan Siedentopp, Albrecht Söllner
Managing Agency Problems in Early Shareholder Capitalism:
Brian S. Silverman, Paul Ingram
Non-democratic political institutions in ancient Greece: The world of oligarchies
Matthew Simonton
Toward an Economic Theory of Property in Information
Henry E. Smith
Parliaments As Condorcet Juries: Quasi-experimental Evidence on the Representation of Majority Preferences
David Stadelmann, Reiner Eichenberger, Marco Portmann
Endogenous Institutions and Multiple Equilibria: The Role of Commitment
Christina Steiger
The Institutional Microeconomics of Positional Goods
Massimiliano Vatiero
Expanding the Concept of Bounded Rationality in Tce: Incorporating Interpretive Uncertainty in Governance Choice
Libby Weber, Kyle J. Mayer
Constraining Predation
Claudia R. Williamson
The Financial Structure of Commercial Revolution: Financing Long-distance Trade in Venice 1190-1220 and Venetian Crete 1278-1400
Dean Williamson
Tacit Knowledge and the Dynamics of Vertical Scope: An Application to Regulated Industries
Hagen Worch, Bernhard Truffer
Industrial associations as a channel of business-government interactions in imperfect institutional environment: the Russian case
Andrei Yakovlev, Andrey Govorun
NEITHER ROBIN HOOD NOR KING JOHN: TESTING THE ANTI-CREDITOR AND ANTI-DEBTOR BIAS IN BRAZILIAN JUDGES
Luciana Yeung, Paulo Furquim de Azevedo
Transition from a Limited Access Order to an Open Access Order: The Case of South Korea
Jong-sung You
A Theory of Bargaining Costs and Price Terms in the Absence of Specific Investments
Giorgio Zanarone, Desmond Lo
Endogenous Transaction Cost, Specialization, and Strategic Alliance
Juyan Zhang, Yi Zhang
Institutional Environment, Public-Private Hybrid Strategy, and Entrepreneurial Investment:Evidence from China’s Transition Economy
Wubiao Zhou
Village Elections, Communist Party Oversight and Public Spending in Rural China
Ben Zou