198 papers
Presidents, Regulators and Policy Disagreement
Alex Acs
Political Institutions, Resources, and War: A General Theory and 900 Years of Empirics from Ancient Rome
Jordan Adamson
Institutionally Constrained Technology Adoption: Resolving the Longbow Puzzle
Doug Allen, Peter Leeson
Contractual Choices and Technical Efficiency in Public Procurement : The Case of regional railway Transport in France
Miguel Amaral, Jean-Christophe Thiebaud
Does Experience Rating Improve Obstetric Practices? Evidence From Geographical Discontinuities in Italy
Sofia Amaral-Garcia, Paola Bertoli, Veronica Grembi
Political Bonds: Political Hazards and the Choice of Municipal Financing Instruments
Abhay Aneja, Marian Moszoro, Pablo T. Spiller
Mapping the Coevolution of States and Markets: A Dynamic Approach to Development
Yuen Yuen Ang
Coase and the Departure from Property
Benito Arruñada
Incentive and Selection Effects of Judicial Elections: Theory and Evidence from State Supreme Courts
Elliott Ash, Bentley MacLeod
The Economics of Rights: The Effect of the Right to Counsel
Itai Ater, Yehonatan Givati, Oren Rigbi
Cultural Biases in Public Service Delivery: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Approach
Laure Athias, Pascal Wicht
Trust and Public Private Partnerships
Laure Athias, Pascal Wicht
An Economic Analysis of Debarment
Emmanuelle Auriol, Tina Soreide
Designing a leaky bucket: Meltzer and Richard (1981) with endogenous inefficiency in redistributive institutions
Ahmet F. Aysan, Haldun Evrenk
Russian Regional Institutions: Measurement, Typology, and Dynamics
Alexy Baranov, Egor Malkov, Leonid Polishchuk, Michael Rochlitz, lGeorgiy Syunyaev
From Patent Thickets to Patent Networks: The Legal Infrastructure of the Digital Economy
Jonathan Barnett
Release and Catch: Hybrid Organizational Structures in Innovation Markets
Jonathan Barnett, Ehud Kamar
Policies in Relational Contracts
Daniel Barron, Michael Powell
Is Competition Fair? An Experimental Study
Bjoern Bartling, Manuel Grieder, Christian Zehnder
The Status of Married Women
Yoram Barzel
On The Shoulders of Giants or The Road Less Traveled?: An Experimental Approach to Sequential Innovation in Intellectual Property
Stefan Bechtold, Christopher Buccafusco, Christopher Sprigman
Persistent Effects of Pre-Inca Settlements in North-East Peru
Mariel Bedoya, María A. Gastañanuí
A Productive Efficiency Theory of Fair Use
Abraham Bell, Gideon Parchomovsky
Priming Ideology? Electoral Cycles Without Electoral Incentives Among U.S. Judges
Carlos Berdejo, Daniel Chen
Recasting the Iron Rice Bowl: The Reform of China's State Owned Enterprises
Daniel Berkowitz, Hong Ma, Shuichiro Nishioka
Private Ordering, Social Capital, and Netowrk Governance
lisa bernstein
Decentralization and progressive taxation
Simon Berset, Mark Schelker
The Bankruptcy Decision in Nineteenth Century France: Cities vs. Banks
Jean Beuve, Martine Carré-Tallon, Jerome Sgard
The Determinants of Emergency Constitutions
Christian Björnskov, Stefan Voigt
The Effect of Employment Protection on Labor Productivity
Carl Magnus Bjuggren
The Contingent Effect of Management Practices
Steven Blader, Claudine Gartenberg, Andrea Prat
Who to Help? Trust and Preferences over Redistribution in Russia
Ekaterina Borisova, Andrei Govorun, Denis Ivanov, Irina Levina
Is there a deadweight loss of politics in public service provision?
Richard Boylan
Criminals and the Price System: Evidence from Czech Metal Thieves
Tomas Brabenec, Josef Montag
The Economics of Multi-level Governance: on the Benefits of Overlapping Jurisdictions
Eric Brousseau
Paying not to get the match: A behavioral contract theory of retirement plan design
Ryan Bubb, Patrick Warren
Loose-Lipped Leviathan? State Ownership and Transparency in Foreign Direct Investment
Anthony Cannizzaro, Robert Weiner
Rewards and Punishments: Informal Contracting through Social Preferences
Sylvain Chassang, Christian Zehnder
Do Policies Affect Preferences? Evidence from Random Variation in Abortion Jurisprudence
Daniel Chen, Vardges Levonyan, Susan Yeh
Mandatory Disclosure: Theory and Evidence from Industry-Physician Relationships
Daniel Chen, Vardges Levonyan, Eric Reinhart, Glen Taksler
Non-Profit Status and Relational Sanctions: Commitment to Quality through Repeat Interactions and Organizational Choice
Albert Choi
Accession, Riparianism, and the Colorado Doctrine
Eric R. Claeys
Missing money for EVs: economics impacts of TSO market designs
Paul Codani, Yannick Perez, Marc Petit
Creating and Capturing Value in Repeated Exchange Relationships: Managing a Second Paradox of Embeddedness
Elfenbein Daniel, Zenger Todd
Mafia in the ballot box
Giuseppe De Feo, Giacomo De Luca
Social Capital and Incentives in the Provision of Product Quality by Cooperatives
Wendong Deng, George Hendrikse
Consumers’ Privacy Choice in the Big Data Era
Sebastian Dengler, Jens Prüfer
Unenforced Laws: A Field Experiment
Ben Depoorter, Stephan Tontrup
Clubbing in Trade Policies: How Much a Threat to Trade Liberalization?
Barbara Dluhosch, Daniel Horgos
Lost in Translation: Cultural Differences and Earnings Management Contagion
Nathan Dong
The Changing Returns to Crime: Do Criminals Respond to Prices?
Mirko Draca, Theodore Koutmeridis, Stephen Machin
The Limits of Reputation: Lies, Opportunism, and the Evolution of Contract Enforcing Institutions
Catherine S.M. Duggan
Ethno-economic Specialization and Intergroup Conflict
Ruben Durante, Irena Grosfeld, Seyhun Orcan Sakalli, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
Price Coherence and Excessive Intermediation
Benjamin Edelman, Julian Wright
What lies beneath? Aquifer heterogeneity and the economics of collective action
Eric Edwards
The Role of Social Enterprise and Hybrid Organizations
Ofer Eldar
Incomplete contracts and the courts - an exploration
Andreas Engert
Long-Term Employment Relations When Agents are Present-Biased
Florian Englmaier, Matthias Fahn, Marco Schwarz
The Upside of Implicit Downsizing Costs
Matthias Fahn, Nicolas Klein
Why do people respect property? Bringing Plato's Ring of Gyges to the lab
Marco Faillo, Matteo Rizzolli, Stephan Tontrup
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Allocation of Procurement Contracts: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Caroline Flammer
Curb Your Enthusiasm For Pigovian Taxes
Victor Fleischer
A Talmudic Bankruptcy Solution: The CCC Principle
Vincy Fon
Corporate Political Strategy in Contested Regulatory Environments: Evidence from the Electric Utility Sector
Adam Fremeth, Guy Holburn, Richard Vanden Bergh
Motivations for Corporate Political Activity
Adam Fremeth, Brian Richter, Brandon Schaufele
Innovation Activities and the Incentives for Vertical Acquisitions and Integration
Laurent Fresard, Gerard Hoberg, Gordon Phillips
The Illusory Promise of Pre-emptive Rights
Jesse Fried
The Value of a Statistical Judgment: A New Approach to an Insurer's Duty to Settle
Ezra Friedman
Royalty Stacking and Standard Essential Patents: Theory and Evidence from the World Mobile Wireless Industry
Alexander Galetovic, Kirti Gupta
How information shapes interpersonal conflict. From prisons to the lab.
Diego Gambetta, Aron Szekely
Why Do Dual Class Firms Have Staggered Boards?
Mira Ganor
Power Struggle and Government Oversizing: Unintended Consequences of Checks-and-Balance in a One-party Regime
Nan Gao, Philip Keefer, Pinghan Liang, Lixin C. Xu
Subprime Governance: Managerial Agency Costs in Vertically Integrated Banks
Claudine Gartenberg, Lamar Pierce
Can Globalized Board Room Help with Cross-Listing? The Effects of U.S. Directors on Cross-Listed Foreign Firms
chinmoy ghosh, fan he, Haoyong zhou
Has state-level regulation improved efficiency of thermal power generation in India?
Ranjan Ghosh, Vinish Kathuria
The role of access to de jure rights in resettlement of displaced farmers
Ranjan Ghosh, Vikram Patil, Vinish Kathuria
The Governance of Surface Transportation in the 21st Century: Understanding the Emergence of the Public-Private Partnership Model
Jonathan Gifford, Lisardo Bolaños, Nobuhiko Daito, Jeong Yun Kweun
Mergers and Acquisitions in the US Video Game Industry: Assessing Theories of Vertical Integration
Ricard Gil, Frederic Warzynski
On the Determinants and Consequences of Informal Contracting
Ricard Gil, Giorgio Zanarone
Segregation, Discrimination, and Firm Entry: Evidence from Post-war African-American Movie Theaters
Ricard Gil, Justin Marion
Redundancy: When Law Repeats Itself
John M. Golden
Monitoring and the Value of Public Office in the Spanish Empire
Jenny Guardado
Information and Censorship in Non-Democratic Regimes
Sergei Guriev, Daniel Treisman
Mapping the Road to Freedom – The Correlates and Roots of the Rule of Law
Jerg Gutmann, Stefan Voigt
Why Do Inventors Sell to Patent Trolls? Experimental Evidence for the Asymmetry Hypothesis
Stephen Haber, Seth Werfel
Reputation and Ownership of Public Goods
Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka, Evagelos Pafilis
Short-term, Long-term, and Continuing Contracts
Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka, Oliver Hart
The Property Rights Theory of Vertical Relations: Evidence from the Hollywood Studio Era
F. Andrew Hanssen, Alexander Raskovich
The Dynamics of Political Embeddedness in China
Heather Haveman, Nan Jia, Jing Shi, Yongxiang Wang
Auctions vs. Negotiations: The Effects of Inefficient Renegotiation
Fabian Herweg, Klaus M. Schmidt
Information Acquisition, Decision Making, and Implementation in Organizations
Hideshi Itoh, Kimiyuki Morita
The Impact of Formality on Microenterprise Performance: Evidence from downtown Lima
Miguel Jaramillo, Lorena Alcazar
Reframing Court Intervention in Relational Contracts
Matthew Jennejohn
Market-Political Complementarity in Firm Capabilities: An Integrated Theoretical Perspective
Nan Jia, Kyle Mayer
Sources of Authoritarian Responsiveness: A Field Experiment in China
Chen Jidong, Pan Jennifer, Xu Yiqing
What Drives Dodd-Frank Act Compliance Cost for Private Funds?
Wulf Kaal
The comparative performance of long term contracts
Kanishka Kacker
Behavioral impediments to water transfers: Some evidence from California groundwater management
Mark Kanazawa
THE SHADOWS OF HISTORY FOR TODAY’S FISCAL OUTCOMES: EVIDENCE FROM POLISH MUNICIPALITIES
Jaroslaw Kantorowicz
Bargaining under Institutional Challenges
Leyla D. Karakas
The Structure of Negotiations: Incomplete Agreements and the Focusing Effect
Heiko Karle, Andrea Canidio
Managing Careers in Organizations
Rongzhu Ke, Jin Li, Michael Powell
Categorical Versus Ad Hoc Fiduciaries and the Domain of Fiduciary Duties
Daniel B. Kelly
Lessons from Variations in Internal Structures and Dynamics about Behaviors of Government Bodies in the Fields of Innovation and Finance
F. Scott Kieff, Troy A. Paredes
Aligning to Trust, Patience, and Expectations? Behavioral determinants of value chain governance
Christian Kimmich, Urs Fischbacher
The complexity of private actor interests in public-private arrangements: The nature of the firm and its social value orientation
Ilze Kivleniece, Bertrand V. Quelin
Outsourced R&D and GDP growth
Anne Marie Knott
Cronyism and Competition in Indonesian Manufacturing Pre and Post Suharto
Anna Kochanova, Bob Rijkers, Mary Hallward-Driemeier
The Impact of Decentralization on Public Service Delivery: A Spatial Regression Discontinuity Approach
Katrina Kosec, Tewodaj Mogues
Is It Worth Trusting Your Manager?
Elena Kulchina
Are There Cultural Prerequisites to Effective Property Rights?: Evidence from Inheritance Rights of Widows in Colonial India
Parashar Kulkarni
A New Cross-National Measure of Corruption
Escresa Laarni, Picci Lucio
Lobbying on Regulatory Enforcement Actions: Evidence from Banking
Thomas Lambert
The Political Cycle of Public-Private Contract Renegotiations: Evidence from the French car park sector
Zoe Le Squeren, John Moore
From Plows to Horizontal Fracking: Anticommons and Unintended Consequences of Land Privatization
Bryan Leonard, Dominic Parker
The Economics of First Possession Rights to a Heterogeneous Resource: Prior Appropriation Rights to Water
Bryan Leonard, Gary D. Libecap
The Economics of First Possession Rights to a Heterogeneous Resource: Prior Appropriation Rights to Water
Bryan Leonard, Gary Libecap
The Legacy of Empires on Political Outcomes in Romania
Roman Levkin
Pay for Play: A Theory of Hybrid Relationships
Tracy R. Lewis, Alan Schwartz
Designated Succession: When Does It Work in Authoritarian Regimes?
Yuan Li, Shu Yu, Yongjing Zhang
Discretion in Hiring
Danielle Li, Mitch Hoffman, Lisa Kahn
Logrolling under Fragmented Authoritarianism: Theory and Evidence from China
Yuan Li, Mario Gilli, Jiwei Qian
Measuring firm size in empirical corporate finance
FRANK LI, CHONGYU DANG
Lord Eldon Redux: Information Asymmetry, the Roots of Accountability, and the Structure of Fiduciary Loyalty
Amir Licht
Roads or Schools? Political Budget Cycles with different types of voters
Maria del Pilar Lopez Uribe
Corporate Performance and Governmental Favoritism in Administrative Restructuring: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in China
Shengfeng Lu, Ziming Li
The Effect of Checkerboard Land Ownership Pattern on Land Markets
Dean Lueck, Sidra Haye
Relational Adaptation and the Costs and Benefits of Vertical Integration: Evidence from Costa Rica Coffee
Rocco Macciavello, Josepa Miquel-Florensa
Naxalites and Extralegal Governance
Pavan Mamidi
Oligarchs, State, and Wealth Defense in Unconsolidated Democracies
Stanislav Markus, Volha Charnysh
Factor endowments and institutional specialization: why some countries have different forms of corruption than others
Robbert Maseland, Rok Spruk
Bridging gaps between policies for sustainable markets and market practices
Lars-Gunnar Mattsson
Coordination in Agribusiness: an Empirical Analysis among Brazilian Natural Rubber Producers and Processors
Luís G. Mazzaro, Antonio C. Manfredini-Oliveira
Coordination in Agribusiness: an empirical analysis among Brazilian natural rubber producers and processors
Luís G. Mazzaro, Antonio C. Manfredini-Oliveira
The Difficult Transition from Limited to Open Access Society: The Illustrative Case of Tunisia
Claude Menard, Fahmi Ben-Abdelkader
Institutions & Information: Public Perception of Climate Change Information provided by Government vs. the Market
Cherie Metcalf, Jonathan Nash
The Effects of Governance on Relational and Formal Contracts: Theory and Evidence from Groundwater Irrigation Markets
Jeffrey Michler, Steven Wu
Fiduciary Governance
Paul B. Miller, Andrew S. Gold
The Organization of Non-market Strategy
Dylan Minor
A Theory of Mindsets in Organizations
Kimiyuki Morita
Institutional and Political Determinants of Private Participation in Infrastructure
Marian Moszoro, Gonzalo Araya, Fernanda Ruiz-Nunez, Jordan Schwartz
Contracting in Networks: What is New and Why it Matters
Stefanos Mouzas
Beliefs and the Persistence of Inefficient Institutions
Bernardo Mueller
Economic Globalization and Governance: The Role of Social Globalization
Deepraj Mukherjee, Nabamita Dutta
On the Sealing of Criminal Records, Stigma and Deterrence
Murat Mungan
Strategic Determination of Renegotiation Costs
Akitoshi Muramoto
Offset Credits in the EU Emissions Trading System : A Firm-Level Evaluation of Transaction Costs
Helene Naegele
Examining Federal District Judges' Referrals to Magistrate Judges
Jonathan Nash
Exposure to Offshoring and the Politics of Trade Liberalization: Debate and Votes on Free Trade Agreements in the 108th U.S. Congress
Erica Owen
Citizens, dictators and networks: A game theory approach
Wilson Perez-Oviedo
Content and Coordination Censorship in Authoritarian Regimes
Maria Petrova, Galina Zudenkova
Politicians' Twitter and Political donations
Maria Petrova, Ananya Sen, Pinar Yildrim
Emergence of Cooperatives and Farmer Heterogeneity
Anna Petruchenya, George Hendrikse
Believing in Making a Difference
Jens Prüfer, YiLong Xu
Creating A TDRs Market: A Key to Chinese Land Reform?
Shitong Qiao
Nuclear Power and the Mob: Extortion and Social Capital in Japan
J. Mark Ramseyer
Why Use Requirement Contracts? The Tradeoff between Hold Up and Breach
Eric Rasmusen
The Essential Role of Agency Law: Agency Law as Asset Partitioning
Gabriel Rauterberg
PPP Procurement in the United Kingdom: An Analysis of Tendering Periods
Eoin Reeves, Darragh Flannery, Donal Palcic
Performance Incentives and Economic Growth: Regional Officials in Russia and China
Michael Rochlitz, Vera Kulpina, Thomas Remington, Andrei Yakovlev
More than just a pig story: Explaining the evolution of chain coordination and structures in the hog industry in Quebec
Annie Royer, Michel Morisset
Abuse of Authority and Active Citizenship: an endogenous explanation
Lorenzo Sacconi, Virginia Cecchini Manara
Does Institutional Shareholding Affect Firm Value? An Empirical Analysis in Indian Market
Amiya K. Sahu
Screening and Monitoring Miners: Recruitment and Personnel Management in Japanese Coal Mining
Mayo Sakai
Turning the Virtual Tables: Government Strategies for Addressing Online Opposition with an Application to Russia
Sergey Sanovich, Denis Stukal, Duncan Penfold-Brown, Joshua A Tucker
Does labour law increase youth and total unemployment? Analysis of a new dataset
Prabirjit Sarkar, Simon Deakin
Does labour law increase youth and total unemployment? Analysis of a new dataset
Prabirjit Sarkar, Simon Deakin
Using Public Procurement to Implement Social Policy. A First Empirical Study
Stephane Saussier, Louise Vidal
The relationship between inclusive institutions, proximate causes of growth and economic growth: A case study of four Mandate territories, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Trans-Jordan, 1918-1946/48
Andrew Schein
Private Access Fees and Congestion: Is There a Role for Government After All?
Nathan Seegert, Stephen Salant
Bureaucratic capacity and the adaptation of institutional transplants
Valentin Seidler, Claudia Williamson
Competing Through Contracts and Investments: Selection, Matching and Firm Organization in Residential Real Estate
Orie Shelef, Amy Nguyen-Chyung
Ronald Coase and Hijack for Ransom: why “All hulls end up with Lloyds”
Anja Shortland
Political Risk as a Hold-Up Problem: Implications for Integrated Strategy
Kenneth W. Shotts
The Prudent Investor Rule and Market Risk: An Empirical Analysis
Robert Sitkoff, Max Schanzenbach
Firm Boundaries and Financial Contracts
Janis Skrastins
Fiduciary Law and Entrepreneurial Action
D. Gordon Smith
On the Institutional Origins of Regional Political Cultures across Spain
David Soto-Oñate
Experimental Investigation of Legal Reasoning and Judicial Decision-Making
Holger Spamann, Lars Kloehn
Institutional Transformation and the Origins of World Income Distribution
Rok Spruk
The Sorry Clause
Vatsalya Srivastava
Who Responds to U.S. News & World Report’s Law School Rankings?
Jeffrey Evans Stake, Michael Alexeev
Noncompetes in the US Labor Force
Evan Starr, James Prescott, Norman Bishara
Institutional Benefits from implementing Inflationary Targeting
Sebastian Stolorz
Promises and Reliance
Rebecca Stone, Alexander Stremitzer
The Impact of Within-Platform Competition in Two-Sided Business Models
Mahdi Talavalei, Juan Santalo
Identity and Integration: Fractionalization and the Vote for the Eurozone in France
Megan Teague, Noel Johnson
High on Innovation: The Impact of Liberalization Policies on Innovation
Keyvan Vakili, Laurina Zhang
On the role of investments and the nature of residual control rights
Massimiliano Vatiero
Institutional and technological lock-in in the choice of power generation portfolio: the Brazilian case
Miguel Vazquez, Michelle Hallack
The transaction costs of oil and gas lease auctions: the Brazilian local content policy
Miguel Vazquez, Michelle Hallack
Subjective insecurity and cooperation: Evidence from field experiments
Maria Alejandra Velez, Carlos Trujillo, Lina Moros, Clemente Forero-Pineda
The effect of contract detail and prior ties on contract change: A learning story
Zhe (Adele) Xing, Kyle J. Mayer, Xuanli Xie, Jeff J. Reuer
Incentives for Repeated Contracts in Public Sector: Empirical Study of Gasoline Procurement in Russia
Andrei Yakovlev, Oleg Vyglovsky, Olga Demidova, Alexander Bashlyk
Endogenous property rights and inequality in non-democratic regimes: theory and evidence
Alexander M. Yarkin
Tribes and Distrust: Linking Social Capital to Fraud Victimization
Christopher Yenkey
Evidence on the relation between importing from low-wage countries and US domestic pollution
Yue Maggie Zhou, Xiaoyang Li
Business History: a lantern on the stern?
Decio Zylbersztajn, Caroline Gonçalves