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James Malcomson

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All Souls College, Oxford OX1 4AL, United Kingdom
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Terminal Degree:1973 Department of Economics; Harvard University (from RePEc Genealogy)

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(90%) Department of Economics
Oxford University

Oxford, United Kingdom
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München, Germany
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(5%) Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Bonn, Germany
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Working papers

  1. MacLeod, W. Bentley & Malcomson, James, 2023. "Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment: Thirty Years On," IZA Discussion Papers 15881, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
  2. James Malcomson, 2021. "Uncertainty, investment and productivity with relational contracts," Economics Series Working Papers 940 JEL classification: C, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
  3. James Malcomson, 2021. "Grouping agents with persistent types," Economics Series Working Papers 941 JEL classification: C, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
  4. Timothy Besley & James Malcomson, 2017. "Competition in Public Service Provision: The Role of Not-for-profit Providers," CESifo Working Paper Series 6759, CESifo.
  5. Timothy Besley & James M. Malcolmson, 2016. "Choice and Competition in Public Service Provision," STICERD - Public Economics Programme Discussion Papers 29, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE.
  6. James Malcomson, 2015. "Relational Incentive Contracts with Persistent Private Information," CESifo Working Paper Series 5462, CESifo.
  7. Malcomson, James & Mavroeidis, Sophocles, 2015. "Bargaining and Wage Rigidity in a Matching Model for the US," IZA Discussion Papers 8806, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
  8. James Malcomson, 2014. "Relational Contracts and Specific Training," Economics Series Working Papers 732, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
  9. James Malcomson, 2012. "Relational Incentive Contracts with Productivity Shocks," Economics Series Working Papers 634, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
  10. James Malcomson, 2010. "Do Managers with Limited Liability Take More Risky Decisions? An Information Acquisition Model," CESifo Working Paper Series 2943, CESifo.
  11. James Malcomson & Sophocles Mavroeidis, 2010. "Nash Bargaining, Credible Bargaining and Efficiency Wages in a Matching Model for the US," Economics Series Working Papers 511, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
  12. James Malcomson, 2010. "Relational Incentive Contracts," Economics Series Working Papers 508, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
  13. James Malcomson, 2005. "Supplier Discretion over Provision: Theory and an Application to Medical Care," CESifo Working Paper Series 1407, CESifo.
  14. James Malcomson, 2004. "Principal and Expert Agent," Economics Series Working Papers 193, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
  15. James Malcomson, 2003. "Health Service Gatekeepers," CESifo Working Paper Series 1063, CESifo.
  16. James Malcomson, 2003. "The Specification of Diagnosis-Related Groups," Economics Series Working Papers 162, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
  17. James M. Malcomson & James W. Maw & Barry McCormick, 2002. "General Training by Firms, Apprentice Contracts, and Public Policy," CESifo Working Paper Series 696, CESifo.
  18. James Malcomson & Martin Chalkley & University of Dundee, 2001. "Cost Sharing in Health Service Provision: An Empirical Assessment of Cost Savings," Economics Series Working Papers 69, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
  19. W. Bentley MacLeod & James Malcomson, 1997. "Motivation and Markets," Boston College Working Papers in Economics 339., Boston College Department of Economics.
  20. Fairburn, J.A. & Malcomson, J.M., 1995. "Performance, Promotion, and the Peter Principle," UFAE and IAE Working Papers 304.95, Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica (UAB) and Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC).
  21. Macleod, B.W. & Malcomson, J.M., 1991. "Contracts Bargaining for Flows of Goods and Services in Finite Terms," Cahiers de recherche 9111, Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques.
  22. MacLeod, W.B. & Malcomson, J.M., 1991. "Incomplete Contracts and the Theory of Dual Economies," Cahiers de recherche 9123, Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques.
  23. Macleod, W.B. & Malcomson, J.M., 1991. "Investments, Hold Up and the Reform of Market Contracts," Cahiers de recherche 9114, Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques.
  24. Macleod, W.B. & Malcomson, J.M., 1989. "Wage Premiums And Profit Maximization In Efficiency Wage Models," UFAE and IAE Working Papers 114.89, Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica (UAB) and Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC).
  25. Macleod, B.W. & Malcomson, J.M., 1989. "Labour Turnover And The Natural Rate Of Unemployment: Efficiency Wage V.S Frictional Unemployment," UFAE and IAE Working Papers 113-89, Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica (UAB) and Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC).
  26. Macleod, W.B. & Malcomson, J.M., 1989. "Efficient Specific Investments, Incomplete Contracts, And The Role Of Market Alternatives," Papers 8946, Tilburg - Center for Economic Research.
  27. MALCOMSON, James M. & SPINNEWYN, Frans, 1988. "The multiperiod principal-agent problem," LIDAM Reprints CORE 803, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE).
  28. W. Bentley MacLeod & James M. Malcomson, 1987. "Labour Turnover and the Natural Rate of Unemployment: An Incomplete Contracts Approach," Working Paper 697, Economics Department, Queen's University.
  29. W. Bentley MacLeod & James M. Malcomson, 1986. "Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment," Working Paper 585, Economics Department, Queen's University.
  30. W. Bentley MacLeod & James M. Malcomson, 1986. "Involuntary Unemployment in Dynamic Contract Equilibria," Working Paper 656, Economics Department, Queen's University.
  31. Bentley MacLeod & James M. Malcomson, 1985. "Reputation and Hierarchy in Dynamic Models of Employment," Working Paper 628, Economics Department, Queen's University.
  32. James M. MALCOMSON, 1984. "Capital Utilization and Empirical Analysis," Discussion Papers (REL - Recherches Economiques de Louvain) 1984039, Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES).

Articles

  1. James M Malcomson, 2024. "Uncertainty, Investment and Productivity with Relational Contracts," Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Association, vol. 22(3), pages 1139-1176.
  2. W. Bentley MacLeod & James M. Malcomson, 2023. "Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment: Thirty Years On," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 179(3-4), pages 470-499.
  3. Besley, Timothy & Malcomson, James M., 2018. "Competition in public service provision: The role of not-for-profit providers," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 162(C), pages 158-172.
  4. James M. Malcomson & Sophocles Mavroeidis, 2017. "Bargaining and Wage Rigidity in a Matching Model for the US," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, vol. 79(6), pages 997-1017, December.
  5. James M. Malcomson, 2016. "Relational Incentive Contracts With Persistent Private Information," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 84, pages 317-346, January.
  6. Malcomson, James M., 2015. "Relational incentive contracts with productivity shocks," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 92(C), pages 122-137.
  7. Malcomson, James M., 2015. "Relational contracts and specific training," Research in Economics, Elsevier, vol. 69(1), pages 51-62.
  8. James M. Malcomson, 2011. "Do Managers with Limited Liability Take More Risky Decisions? An Information Acquisition Model," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 20(1), pages 83-120, March.
  9. Malcomson James M, 2009. "Principal and Expert Agent," The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, De Gruyter, vol. 9(1), pages 1-36, May.
  10. Malcomson, James M., 2007. "Hospital cost differences and payment by results," Health Economics, Policy and Law, Cambridge University Press, vol. 2(4), pages 429-433, October.
  11. James M. Malcomson, 2005. "Supplier Discretion Over Provision: Theory and an Application to Medical Care," RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 36(2), pages 412-429, Summer.
  12. James M. Malcomson, 2004. "Health Service Gatekeepers," RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 35(2), pages 401-421, Summer.
  13. Malcomson, James M. & Maw, James W. & McCormick, Barry, 2003. "General training by firms, apprentice contracts, and public policy," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 47(2), pages 197-227, April.
  14. Chalkley, Martin & Malcomson, James M., 2002. "Cost sharing in health service provision: an empirical assessment of cost savings," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 84(2), pages 219-249, May.
  15. James A. Fairburn & James M. Malcomson, 2001. "Performance, Promotion, and the Peter Principle," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 68(1), pages 45-66.
  16. Chalkley, Martin & Malcomson, James M., 1998. "Contracting for health services when patient demand does not reflect quality," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 17(1), pages 1-19, January.
  17. Chalkley, Martin & Malcomson, James M, 1998. "Contracting for Health Services with Unmonitored Quality," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 108(449), pages 1093-1110, July.
  18. MacLeod, W Bentley & Malcomson, James M, 1998. "Motivation and Markets," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 88(3), pages 388-411, June.
  19. James M. Malcomson, 1997. "Contracts, Hold-Up, and Labor Markets," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 35(4), pages 1916-1957, December.
  20. Chalkley, Martin & Malcomson, James M, 1996. "Contracts for the National Health Service," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 106(439), pages 1691-1701, November.
  21. Chalkley, Martin & Malcomson, James M, 1996. "Competition in NHS Quasi-markets," Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Oxford University Press and Oxford Review of Economic Policy Limited, vol. 12(4), pages 89-99, Winter.
  22. W. Bentley MacLeod & James M. Malcomson, 1995. "Contract Bargaining with Symmetric Information," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 28(2), pages 336-367, May.
  23. W. Bentley Macleod & James M. Malcomson, 1995. "Turnover Costs, Efficiency Wages and Cycles," Annals of Economics and Statistics, GENES, issue 37-38, pages 55-74.
  24. Fairburn, James A. & Malcomson, James M., 1994. "Rewarding performance by promotion to a different job," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 38(3-4), pages 683-690, April.
  25. MacLeod, W Bentley & Malcomson, James M & Gomme, Paul, 1994. "Labor Turnover and the Natural Rate of Unemployment: Efficiency Wage versus Frictional Unemployment," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 12(2), pages 276-315, April.
  26. Frank, Jeff & Malcomson, James M., 1994. "Trade unions and seniority employment rules," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 38(8), pages 1595-1611, October.
  27. MacLeod, W. Bentley & Malcomson, James M., 1993. "Wage premiums and profit maximization in efficiency wage models," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 37(6), pages 1223-1249, August.
  28. MacLeod, W Bentley & Malcomson, James M, 1993. "Investments, Holdup, and the Form of Market Contracts," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 83(4), pages 811-837, September.
  29. MacLeod, W. Bentley & Malcomson, James M., 1993. "Specific investment and wage profiles in labour markets," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 37(2-3), pages 343-354, April.
  30. MacLeod, W Bentley & Malcomson, James M, 1989. "Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 57(2), pages 447-480, March.
  31. Malcomson, James M., 1988. "Some analytics of the Laffer curve : Reply," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 35(1), pages 131-132, February.
  32. MacLeod, W Bentley & Malcomson, James M, 1988. "Reputation and Hierarchy in Dynamic Models of Employment," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 96(4), pages 832-854, August.
  33. James M. Malcomson & Frans Spinnewyn, 1988. "The Multiperiod Principal-Agent Problem," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 55(3), pages 391-407.
  34. Malcomson, James M., 1987. "Trade union labour contracts : An introduction," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 31(1-2), pages 139-148.
  35. Macleod, W. Bentley & Malcomson, James M., 1987. "Involuntary unemployment in dynamic contract equilibria ," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 31(1-2), pages 427-435.
  36. James M. Malcomson, 1986. "Rank-Order Contracts for a Principal with Many Agents," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 53(5), pages 807-817.
  37. Malcomson, James M., 1986. "Some analytics of the laffer curve," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 29(3), pages 263-279, April.
  38. Malcomson, James M, 1985. "Incomplete Contracts and Involuntary Unemployment," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 37(2), pages 196-209, June.
  39. Malcomson, James M, 1984. "Work Incentives, Hierarchy, and Internal Labor Markets," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 92(3), pages 486-507, June.
  40. Hillier, Brian & Malcomson, James M, 1984. "Dynamic Inconsistency, Rational Expectations, and Optimal Government Policy," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 52(6), pages 1437-1451, November.
  41. Malcomson, James M, 1983. "Trade Unions and Economic Efficiency," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 93(369a), pages 51-65, Supplemen.
  42. Malcomson, James M., 1982. "Tax policy and investment demand : A vintage approach," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 19(2), pages 225-241, November.
  43. Malcomson, James M, 1981. "Unemployment and the Efficiency Wage Hypothesis," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 91(364), pages 848-866, December.
  44. James M. Malcomson, 1981. "Corporate Tax Policy and the Service Life of Capital Equipment," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 48(2), pages 311-316.
  45. Malcomson, James M, 1980. "The Measurement of Labour Cost in Empirical Models of Production and Employment," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 62(4), pages 521-528, November.
  46. James M. Malcomson & Michael J. Prior, 1979. "The Estimation of a Vintage Model of Production for UK Manufacturing," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 46(4), pages 719-736.
  47. James M. Malcomson, 1978. "Prices vs. Quantities: A Critical Note on the Use of Approximations," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 45(1), pages 203-207.
  48. Malcomson, James M, 1977. "Capital Utilization and the Measurement of the Elasticity of Substitution," The Manchester School of Economic & Social Studies, University of Manchester, vol. 45(2), pages 103-111, June.
  49. Malcomson, James M, 1975. "Capacity Utilization, the User Cost of Capital and the Cost of Adjustment," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 16(2), pages 352-361, June.
  50. Malcomson, James M., 1975. "Replacement and the rental value of capital equipment subject to obsolescence," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 10(1), pages 24-41, February.

Chapters

  1. James M. Malcomson, 2012. "Relational Incentive Contracts [The Handbook of Organizational Economics]," Introductory Chapters,, Princeton University Press.
  2. Chalkley, Martin & Malcomson, James M., 2000. "Government purchasing of health services," Handbook of Health Economics, in: A. J. Culyer & J. P. Newhouse (ed.), Handbook of Health Economics, edition 1, volume 1, chapter 15, pages 847-890, Elsevier.
  3. Malcomson, James M., 1999. "Individual employment contracts," Handbook of Labor Economics, in: O. Ashenfelter & D. Card (ed.), Handbook of Labor Economics, edition 1, volume 3, chapter 35, pages 2291-2372, Elsevier.
  4. James M. Malcomson, 1995. "Contract Inefficiency, Wages and Employment: An Assessment," International Economic Association Series, in: Jean-Paul Fitoussi (ed.), Economics in a Changing World, chapter 11, pages 221-249, Palgrave Macmillan.
  5. James M. Malcomson, 1984. "Efficient Labour Organization: Incentives, Power and the Transactions Cost Approach," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Frank H. Stephen (ed.), Firms, Organization and Labour, chapter 7, pages 119-126, Palgrave Macmillan.

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  1. NEP-CTA: Contract Theory and Applications (8) 2009-10-10 2010-10-30 2013-02-03 2013-02-03 2014-12-24 2021-08-09 2021-08-09 2023-03-06. Author is listed
  2. NEP-MIC: Microeconomics (7) 2013-02-03 2013-02-03 2014-12-24 2016-08-28 2018-01-15 2020-05-25 2021-08-09. Author is listed
  3. NEP-COM: Industrial Competition (4) 2016-08-28 2016-11-20 2018-01-15 2020-05-25
  4. NEP-HRM: Human Capital and Human Resource Management (4) 2013-02-03 2014-12-24 2023-03-06 2023-12-04
  5. NEP-BEC: Business Economics (2) 2009-10-10 2010-10-30
  6. NEP-DGE: Dynamic General Equilibrium (2) 2010-11-20 2015-02-16
  7. NEP-HEA: Health Economics (2) 2004-05-02 2020-05-25
  8. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic and Financial History (2) 2023-03-06 2023-12-04
  9. NEP-LMA: Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages (2) 2015-02-16 2023-03-06
  10. NEP-MAC: Macroeconomics (2) 2010-11-20 2015-02-16
  11. NEP-CBE: Cognitive and Behavioural Economics (1) 2009-10-10
  12. NEP-CFN: Corporate Finance (1) 2021-08-09
  13. NEP-DES: Economic Design (1) 2021-08-09
  14. NEP-EDU: Education (1) 2004-05-02
  15. NEP-EFF: Efficiency and Productivity (1) 2021-08-09
  16. NEP-GTH: Game Theory (1) 2013-02-03
  17. NEP-ISF: Islamic Finance (1) 2021-08-09
  18. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (1) 2015-02-16
  19. NEP-LTV: Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty (1) 2015-02-16
  20. NEP-PUB: Public Finance (1) 2016-08-28
  21. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (1) 2016-11-20

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