160 papers
Regulatory Auditing at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
Alex Acs Acs, Charles Cameron
Regulation, ownership and competition in the telecommunication sector: Evidence from MENA countries
Riham AHMED EZZAT
Divided by the facts: Asymmetric preferences over legal rules and bargaining on collegial courts
Caitlin Ainsley, Cliff Carrubba, Georg Vanberg
Biological institutions: The political science of animal cooperation
Erol Akcay, Joan Roughgarden, James Fearon, John Ferejohn, Barry Weingast
Offshore Outsourcing and Buyer-Supplier Matching In The Mobile Phone Industry
Juan Alcacer, Ramon Lecuona, Joanne Oxley
Judicial Politics at the Privy Council: Empirical Evidence
Sofia Amaral-Garcia, Nuno Garoupa
The Institutions of Roman Markets
Benito Arruñada
The Titling Role of Possession
Benito Arruñada
Organizational Structure, Police Activity and Crime
Itai Ater, Yehonatan Givati, Oren Rigbi
Political competition over property rights enforcement
Jan U. Auerbach
Capture for the rich, extortion for the poor
Emmanuelle Auriol, Julie Lassebie
Sustainability and Depth of Outreach: Evidence from Microfinance Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sefa Awaworyi
Good Cause Statues Revisited: An Empirical Assessment
Adi Ayal, Uri BenUliel
Appellate Law-Making in a Judicial Hierachy
Adam Badawi, Scott Baker
Relational Contracts, Unemployment Insurance, and Trade
Daniel Barron
Coasean Keep-Away: Voluntary Transaction Costs
Jordan M. Barry, John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers
Presidentialism and Coalition Governments: on the influence of cabinet ministers in the decision-making process
Mariana Batista
Resolving Civil Wars before they Start: The UN Security Council and Conflict Prevention
Kyle Beardsley, David E. Cunningham, Peter B. White
Registries
Abraham Bell, Gideon Parchomovsky
When Does Business Turn Violent? Elections and Business-Related Violence in Russia, 1995-2010
Galina Belokurova
Political Acceptance as an Alternative or Complement to Political Legitimacy: Concepts, Measurement and Implications.
Roger R. Betancourt, Alejandro Ponce
Endogenous Institutional Selection, Building Trust, and Economic Growth
Aaron Bodoh-Creed
Sarbanes-Oxley: Disciplining Executives or Enriching Attorneys? Evidence from Directors and Officers Liability Insurance
Nicholas F. Bormann
Experimental Evidence of Behavior Based Pricing
Zuzana Brokesova, Cary Deck, Jana Peliova
From the International Telegraph Union to Internet Governance: Organizational vs. Viral Governance
Eric Brousseau
Culture and CEO Compensation
Stephen Bryan, Robert Nash, Ajay Patel
The 1906 San Francisco Fire and the Cost of Zoning
Devin Bunten, James Siodla
Endogenous Politics and the Design of Trade Agreements
Kristy Buzard
The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies
Lorenzo Caliendo, Ferdinando Monte, Esteban Rossi Hansberg
Determining the use of contract in Brazilian Feedlot: an empirical analysis
Thiago B. Carvalho, Eder C. Januário, Maria Sylvia M. Saes
Cold Hand Decision-Making
Daniel Chen, Tobias Moskowitz, Kelly Shue
The Political Economy of Beliefs: Why Fiscal and Social Conservatives and Liberals Come Hand-in-Hand
Daniel L. Chen, Jo Lind
Universities as Innovators: The Effects of Academic Incubators on Patent Quality
Kolympiris Christos, Klein Peter G.
Economic Calculation and Constraints on Firm Size
Brandon N. Cline, Claudia R. Williamson, Adam Yore
Relational Contracts, Financing Constraints and Social Welfare
Oscar F Contreras
Economic Consequences of Judicial Institutions: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
J. Anthony Cookson
Tenure in Office and Public Procurement
decio Coviello, Stefano Gagliarducci
Experimentation Strategies and Entrepreneurial Innovation: Inherited Market Differences in the iPhone Ecosystem
Jason P. Davis, Yulia Muzyrya, Pai-Ling Yin
Throw Away the Jail or Throw Away the Key? The Effect of Punishment on Recividism and Social Cost
Miguel de Figueiredo
When Do Voters Punish Corrupt Politicians? Experimental Evidence from Brazil
Miguel de Figueiredo, F. Daniel Hidalgo, Yuri Kasahara
Removing Rents: Why the Legal System is Superior to the Income Tax at Reducing Income Inequality
Gerrit De Geest
The Death of Caveat Emptor
Gerrit De Geest
Plural Forms in Brazil’s Automobile Fuel Distribution Sector: Evaluation of the profile and stability of plural governance in São Paulo state
Selene de Souza Siqueira Soares, Maria Sylvia Macchione Saes
Judicial Independence? Evidence from the Philippine Supreme Court (1970-2003)
Desiree A. Desierto
Consumer Credit on American Indian Reservations
Valentina P. Dimitrova-Grajzl, Peter Grajzl, A. Joseph Guse, Richard M. Todd
Serial Referendums on Alcohol Prohibition: a New Zealand Invention
Benoit Dostie, Ruth Dupre
Market Structure, Reputation, and the Value of Quality Certification
Daniel W. Elfenbein, Raymond Fisman, Brian McManus
Bounded Rationality as an Essential Ingredient of the Holdup Problem
Mathias Erlei, Wiebke Ross
Teamwork as a Self-Discipling Device
Matthias Fahn, Hendrik Hakenes
A New Methodology for Evaluating Redistricting Plans
Benjmin Fifield, Michael Higgins, Kosuke Imai
Courts, Legislatures, and Property Rule Changes: Lessons from Eminent Domain During the 19th Century Railroad Boom
Robert K. Fleck, F. Andrew Hanssen
Roman business associations
Andreas M. Fleckner
The Digital Reorganization of Firm Boundaries: IT Use and Vertical Integration in U.S. Manufacturing
Chris Forman, Kristina McElheran
The Indian Reorganization Act, Tribal Sovereignty, and Economic Development
Dustin Frye
Modeling Production in the Creative Commons
Massimiliano Gambardella, Matthijs den Besten
Strategic Spending in Federal Government: Theory and Evidence from the US
Pablo Garofalo
Institutional Economics Meets the Cost of Capital: Implications for Public versus Private Infrastructure Delivery
Rick Geddes, Joshua Goldman
The Reputation Trap of NGO Accountability
Stephen E. Gent, Mark J. C. Crescenzi, Elizabeth J. Menninga, Lindsay Reid
Eurozone Bank Crisis & Federalism
Nicholas Georgakopoulos
Determinants of Corporate Governance Codes
Carsten Gerner-Beuerle
Mergers and Acquisitions in the US Video Game Industry: Assessing Theories of Vertical Integration
Ricard Gil, Frederic Warzynski
Testing for the Interaction of Formal and Informal Contracts
Ricard Gil, Giorgio Zanarone
The Relationship between Population Density and Crime: Evidence from the Government Shutdown of 2013
Ricard Gil, Mario Macis
Nation-building and Institutional Change: Lessons from U.S. Special Forces
Matt Golsteyn, Steve Phelan
Nation-building and Institutional Change: Lessons from U.S. Special Forces
Mathew Golsteyn, Steve Phelan
Land Tenure, Price Shocks and Insurgency: Evidence from Peru
Jenny Guardado
Endogenous Institutions and Economic Outcomes.
Carmine Guerriero
Why would inefficient contractual arrangements persist in agrarian society in Indonesia?
Yohanna M. L. Gultom
THE CARBON MARKET AND ECONOMIC FACTORS THAT CAN AFFECT EMISSIONS REDUCTION SUCCESS
Sara Gurfinkel M. Godoy, Sylvia Saes, Rubens Nunes
Microfoundations of the Rule of Law
Gillian K. Hadfield, Barry R. Weingast
More is less: Why parties may deliberately write incomplete contracts
Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka, Oliver Hart
Demanding Supply: path-dependent informality in Jordan's water sector under King Abdullah II
Allison S. Hartnett
Beyond Asset Ownership: Employment and Asset-less Firms in a Property-Rights Theory of the Firm
LESHUI HE
The High Quality of Piece Rate
Walid Hejazi, Brian S. Silverman, Brent Perekoppi
Impact of Federal Preemption on Competition in the United States Telegraph Market
Aaron M. Honsowetz
England: Dominant Coalition in Transition: The Rise of the Merchant-Navy Alliance After 1600
Jerry F. Hough, Robin Grier
Contagion Entrepreneurship: Institutional Support, Strategic Incoherence and the Social Costs of Over-Entry
Richard Hunt
Demand-Side Drivers of Entrepreneurial Activity: A Cliometric Reassessment Using Socially Embedded Historical Artifacts
Richard Hunt
Increasing Vertical Integration in Brazilian Orange Juice Sector after 1990: Power and Transaction Costs
Nobuiuki C. Ito, Decio Zylbersztajn
Institutional Development, Capital Accumulation, and the Emergence of Civilizations
Thorsten Janus, Jamus Lim
Wealth Effects versus Credit Constraints as Drivers of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Mortgage Reform
Thais Jensen, Soren Leth-Petersen, Ramana Nanda
Taxes, National Identity, and Nation Building: Evidence from France
Noel Johnson
Business Cycles with Revolutions
Lance Kent, Toan Phan
Incumbent Vertical Market Power, Experimentation, and Institutional Design in the Deregulating Electricity Industry
L. Lynne Kiesling
Evaluation of Community-Driven Development in Nigeria's Niger Delta Region: Use of the Institutional Analysis in Development (IAD) Framework
Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Temesgen T. Deressa, Jessica E. Pugliese, Andrew Onwuemele, Micah Mendie
Reverse Engineering Chinese Censorship
Gary King, Jennifer Pan, Margaret E. Roberts
Institutional and Organizational Governance: Design Principles and Adaptation
Peter G. Klein, Joseph T. Mahoney, Anita M. McGahan, Christos N. Pitelis
International Cooperation, Parties and Ideology
Jan Klingelhöfer
Unified China and Divided Europe
Chiu Yu Ko, Mark Koyama, Tuan-Hwee Sng
Some controversial aspects of the Financial Meltdown of 2008
John Komlos
An Empirical Analysis of Self-Enforcement Mechanisms: Evidence from Hotel Franchising
Renata Kosova, Giorgo Sertsios
Institutional development, non-market transaction costs and economic growth: evidence from a cross-country investigation
Mitja Kovac, Rok Spruk
The Price of Justice: International Criminal Accountability and Civil Conflict
Daniel Krcmaric
The Birth of Surrogate Motherhood Law: An Economic Analysis of Institutional Reform
Pavel Kuchar
Agency Problems in Entrepreneurial Firms
Elena Kulchina
Fighting Against Democracy. Military Factions in the Second Spanish Republic and Civil War (1931-1939)
Alvaro La Parra-Perez
Serial Entrepreneurship: Learning by Doing?
Francine Lafontaine, Kathryn L. Shaw
Regulatory Design Choices in Communications Policy – Investment in Infrastructure and Net Neutrality in the USA and the EU
Pierre Larouche
Business Associations, Lobbying, and Welfare
Maria Larrain, Jens Prüfer
What Led to the Ban on Same-Sex Marriage in California?: Structural Estimation of Voting Data on Proposition 8
Vardges Levonyan
Filling the Institutional Void: Roles of Associations in China’s HealthCare Sector
Mingzhi Li, Kai Reimers, Bin Xie, Xunhua Guo
The Burden of Past Promises
Jin Li, Niko Matouschek, Michael Powell
The Successor’s Dilemma in Authoritarian Regimes: Theory and Evidence
Yuan Li, Shu Yu, Yongjing Zhang
Independence of the Judiciary: Measuring the Political Bias of the Brazilian Courts
Felipe M. Lopes, Paulo F. Azevedo
Make Or Buy Decisions For Strategic Problem Solving: A Knowledge-Based Examination in Medical Device Manufacturing
Jeffrrey Macher
Inside the MNC: Structuring Ownership of Firm-Specific Advantages
Catherine Magelssen, Susan Feinberg
Vertical Scope and Location Choice
Octavio J. Martinez
The rise of deep determinants
Robbert Maseland
Productivity and Quality in Health Care: Evidence from the Dialysis Industry
Ryan McDevitt, Paul Grieco
Endogenous Parliamentarism
Stephan Michel
Mechanisms of Community Prosecution: Evidence from Cook County
Thomas Miles
Ex Ante Investment, Ex Post Adaptation, and Asset Ownership
Yusuke Mori
Trust, Organization and Efficiency: Evidence from Rwanda's Coffee Wet Mills
Ameet Morjaria, Rocco Macchiavello
Public-Private Monopoly
Marian Moszoro
Theorizing urban form in developing countries: Informal property markets and the production of the built environment
Ephraim K Munshifwa, Manya M Mooya
Female Brain Drains and Women’s Rights Gaps: A Gravity Model Analysis of Bilateral Migration Flows
Maryam Naghsh Nejad, Andrew Young
Career Experience Replaced: Emergence of Japanese Internal Labor Markets
Masaki Nakabayashi
The Regulation of Exit: Political Economy of Passport Costs
Timur Natkhov, Leonid Polishchuk
The Effects of Prenatal Testosterone on Adult Wages: Evidence from Russian RMLS Data and Measured 2D:4D Digit Ratios
John V.C. Nye, Ekaterina Kochergina, Ekaterina Orel, Maria Yudkevich
A Blessing and a Curse: How Oil Impacts Center-Seeking and Separatist Civil Wars
Jack Paine
Does Trade reduce Infant Mortality? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Pallavi Panda
Liability Rule Failures? Evidence from German Court Decisions
Annika Pape
Resource Cursed or Policy Cursed? The Violent Consequences of Conflict Mineral Legislation in the DRC
Dominic Parker, Bryan Vadheim
Seduction and Violence in Autocratic Regimes
Jean-Philippe Platteau, Petros Sekeris
Legislative Changes and their Impact on Divorce, Separation and Marriage Rates in Brazil
Antonio J. Porto, Pedro H. Butelli
If Congestion Pricing is so wonderful why are there so few examples?
Charles Prestrud
Trusting Privacy in the Cloud
Jens Prüfer
China’s expanding social assistance programs and “Fragmented authoritarianism”
Jiwei Qian
The Politics of Redistribution: Beliefs, Institutions and Evidence from 63 countries
Jiwei Qian, Araral Eduardo
Private Scope in Public-Private Partnerships: Experience and Institutional Determinants
Bertrand V. Quelin, Sandro Cabral, Sergio Lazzarini, Ilze Kivleniece
Providing public access to confidential, big social science datasets
Jerome P. Reiter
Organizational Rigidities in and Organizational Innovation in Non Profits: the Marketplace for American Jewish Institutions
Barak Richman
Institutional Innovations for Environmental Governance when Monitoring is Limited: The Case of Small-Scale Gold Mining
Luz A. Rodriguez, Alex Pfaff, Maria Alejandra Velez
A Multilevel Analysis of the Effects of Perceptions of Justice on the Use of Social Sanctions
Maïva Ropaul
Small is Beautiful? Firm Size, Prevention and Food Safety
Elodie Rouvière, Raphael Soubeyran
How to Screen Miners’ Skills: Recruiting in the Coal Mining in Early Twentieth Century Japan
Mayo Sakai
Democracy versus Dictatorship? The Political Determinants of Growth Episodes
kunal sen, Sabyasachi Kar, Selim Raihan
How to Indirectly Measure Market Transaction Costs
Felippe Serigati, Paulo Azevedo
Economists and lawyers: implacable enemies or potential best friends.
Anastasia Shastitko
One case that illustrates the role of institutional analysis in overcoming the hostility tradition in antitrust
Andrei Shastitko, Svetlana Golovanova
Relational Influence Buying
Orie Shelef
How Organizational Hierarchy Affects Information Production
Janis Skrastins, Vikrant Vig
From Communal Irrigation to Irrigation Districts: An Economic Assessment of New Mexico’s Transition
Steven M. Smith
The Elements of Possession
Henry E. Smith
Enforcing Covenants Not to Compete: The Life-Cycle Impact on New Firms
Evan Starr, Natarajan Balasubramanian, Mariko Sakakibara
Are autocrats more environment-friendly than democrats? Investigating the impact of the regime type on environmental targets in developing countries
Katharina M. K. Stepping, Lilli Banholzer
Accounting for the Size of Nations: Empirical Determinants of Secessions and the Soviet Breakup
Marvin Suesse
Franchising and Productivity in the Retail Establishment Sector
Matthew Sveum, Michael Sykuta
Did the Military spearhead the Fight against Corruption in Thailand?
Supruet Thavornyutikarn
Financial Regulation and Financial Development: tradeoff or synergy? A Transaction Costs Approach
Stavros B. Thomadakis, Konstantinos I. Loizos
Relational Contracts and Corruption
Marta Troya Martinez, Liam Wren-Lewis
Forensic Laboratory Independence, Control, and the Quality of Forensic Testimony
Patrick L. Warren
Employment, Markets, Contracts, and the Scope of the Firm
birger wernerfelt
Colonial Democratic Legacies
Steven Wilkinson, Massimiliano G. Onorato
Culture and the Cost of Contract Enforcement
Claudia Williamson
Raising dragons
Melanie Meng Xue, John Nye
An Impact of Different Regulatory Regimes on the Effectiveness of Public Procurement
Andrei Yakovlev, Andrey Tkachenko, Olga Demidova, Olga Balaeva
Inequality and Corruption: The Role of Land Reform in Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines
Jong-sung You
The Intrinsic Social Cost of Public Goods: Revising (Downward) the Optimal Size of Government
Martin Zelder
Perceptions of Fairness and Preferences for Redistribution after Information Exposure: Evidence from an On-line Experiment
Jan Zilinsky