Content
March 2010, Volume 166, Issue 1
- 145-148 Comparative Law and Finance: Past, Present, and Future Research
by Gerard Hertig - 149-165 Legal Origin, Civil Procedure, and the Quality of Contract Enforcement
by Holger Spamann - 166-170 The Perils of Empirical Work on Institutions
by Jonathan Klick - 171-177 Legal Origin, Civil Procedure, and the Quality of Contract Enforcement
by Gerhard Wagner - 178-193 Cautions on the Use of Economics Experiments in Law
by Kathryn Zeiler - 194-198 Defending the (Mis)use of Statistics in Law
by Kenworthey Bilz - 199-202 The Multiple Uses of Experimental Evidence in Legal Scholarship
by Christoph Engel
December 2009, Volume 165, Issue 4
- 561-578 Technology Licensing and Grantbacks under Hidden Information
by Richard Dutu & Benoit Julien - 579-597 Endogenous Asymmetry and Cooperative R&D in Linear Duopoly with Spillovers
by Antonio Tesoriere - 598-621 Large Breach Penalties and Managers´ Incentives to Invest Inside or Outside Firms
by Nicola Meccheri - 622-649 The Benefit and Cost of Winner-Picking: Redistribution versus Incentives
by Axel Gautier & Florian Heider - 650-669 Privatization and Universal Service Obligations
by Germà Bel & Joan Calzada - 670-683 Can State University Fees Increase Welfare? A Mixed Oligopoly Approach
by Elena Del Rey - 684-700 Imperfect Memory and the Preference for Increasing Payments
by John Smith - 701-722 Shadow Economy and Do-it-Yourself Activities: The German Case
by Andreas Buehn & Alexander Karmann & Friedrich Schneider - 723-743 Hierarchical Human Capital and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence
by Robert Driskill & Andrew W. Horowitz & Fabio Méndez
September 2009, Volume 165, Issue 3
- 365-383 Imitative Learning in Tullock Contests: Does Overdissipation Prevail in the Long Run?
by Hiroyuki Sano - 384-400 Competitive Balance in Team Sports: The Scoring Context, Referees, and Overtime
by Loek Groot - 401-417 Investment Behaviour in a Two-Period Contest Model
by Martin Grossmann & Helmut M. Dietl - 418-437 No Pain, No Gain: An R&D Model with Endogenous Absorptive Capacity
by Anna Hammerschmidt - 438-453 Combating Corruption with Bargaining Disruption
by Fabio Méndez - 454-486 Mergers and CEO Power
by Felipe Balmaceda - 487-507 Entrepreneurial Behavior and the Development of Trading Institutions: An Analytical Approach
by Karen A. Campbell - 508-534 Incentives for Partial Acquisitions and Real Market Concentration
by Patricia Charléty & Marie-Cécile Fagart & Saïd Souam - 535-557 Substantive versus Procedural Liberalism: Exploring a Dilemma of Contemporary Liberal Thought
by Gerhard Wegner - 558-559 Book Review
by Paul Schweinzer
June 2009, Volume 165, Issue 2
- 193-209 Delegation, Risk, and Project Scope
by Andreas Roider - 210-229 The Perverse Effects of Outside Options on Strategic Delay in Bargaining
by Abraham L. Wickelgren - 230-249 Owner or Holder? A Critical Study of Property Rights in Public Services
by Claudine Desrieux - 250-259 Collective Wage Agreements on Fixed Wages and Piece Rates May Cartelize Product Markets
by Annette Kirstein & Roland Kirstein - 260-280 Union Wage Bargaining and the Incentive to Innovate
by Jörg Lingens - 281-306 On the Information-Gathering Role of Firm-Sponsored Training for New Hires
by Doyoung Kim & Jacques Lawarrée - 307-341 Did New Deal and World War II Public Capital Investments Facilitate a "Big Push" in the American South?
by Fred Bateman & Jaime Ros & Jason E. Taylor - 342-363 Is a Double Dividend Better than a Single Dividend?
by Yu-Bong Lai
2009, Volume 165, Issue 2
- 230-249 Owner or Holder? A Critical Study of Property Rights in Public Services
by Claudine Desrieux
March 2009, Volume 165, Issue 1
- 1-4 Editorial Preface
by Christoph Engel & Urs Schweizer - 5-23 Erga Omnes Norms, Institutionalization, and Constitutionalism in International Law
by Eric A. Posner - 24-28 Erga Omnes: Why does Public International Law Ignore Privity of Contract. Comment
by Christoph Engel - 29-32 Erga Omnes Norms and the Enforcement of International Law. Comment
by Alexander Stremitzer - 33-57 Effectuating Public International Law through Market Mechanisms?
by Anne van Aaken - 58-61 Private Enforcers of International Law and Norms. Comment
by Richard H. McAdams - 62-70 The State as Black Box and the Market as Regulator. Comment
by Peer C. Zumbansen - 71-85 Rational Choice or Deliberation? Customary International Law between Coordination and Constitutionalization
by Niels Petersen - 86-89 Rational Choice or Deliberation? Customary International Law between Coordination and Constitutionalization. Comment
by Beth Simmons - 90-94 Rational Choice and Deliberation. Comment
by Joel P. Trachtman - 95-98 Is International Customary Law Coordinated, Constructed, or Contested?. Comment
by Marco Verweij - 99-112 The Economic History of Sovereignty: Communal Responsibility, the Extended Family, and the Firm
by Lars Boerner & Albrecht Ritschl - 113-117 The Economic History of Sovereignty, or: What does Fragmentation of Sovereignty Achieve?. Comment
by Lars P. Feld - 118-120 The Economic History of Sovereignty: Communal Responsibility, the Extended Family, and the Firm. Comment
by Carl Wennerlind - 121-133 Internalization Revisited
by George Norman - 134-141 "Make or Buy" and International Law. Comment
by Scott Baker & Mitu Gulati - 142-145 Internalization Revisited. Comment
by Urs Schweizer - 146-158 Social Planning with Partial Knowledge of Social Interactions
by Charles F. Manski - 159-163 Social Planning with Partial Knowledge of Social Interactions. Comment
by Sebastian Kranz & Susanne Ohlendorf - 164-169 Social Planning with Partial Knowledge of Social Interactions. Comment
by Uwe Sunde - 170-184 Potential and Limits of the Economic Analysis of International Law: A View from Public International Law
by Andreas L. Paulus - 185-188 Coordination in the Absence of Sovereign Intervention. Comment
by Katharina Holzinger - 189-191 The Many Meetings of Law with Economics. Comment
by Erich Schanze
December 2008, Volume 164, Issue 4
- 587-611 Competition: Theoretical Parameterizations and Empirical Measures
by Jan Boone - 612-623 Consistency in Organization
by Ekkehart Schlicht - 624-651 On the Origins and Evolving Role of Money
by Jean-Paul Chavas & Daniel W. Bromley - 652-675 Regulating a Multiproduct Monopolist with Unknown Demand: Cross-Subsidization and Countervailing Incentives
by Iñaki Aguirre & Arantza Beitia - 676-695 Transaction Costs on a National Level: Causes and Consequences
by Frederic L. Pryor - 696-726 Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Variable Skill Levels
by Andreas Pollak - 727-750 Behavior of Nonprofit Organizations in For-Profit Markets: The Curious Case of Unprofitable Revenue-Raising Activities
by Maxim Sinitsyn & Burton A. Weisbrod - 751-777 Inflation, Central Bank Independence, and the Legal System
by Bernd Hayo & Stefan Voigt - 778-780 Book Review
by Dinko Dimitrov
September 2008, Volume 164, Issue 3
- 381-406 Self-Promoting Investments
by Carolyn Pitchik - 407-428 Beaten by Bribery: Why Not Blow the Whistle?
by Tina Søreide - 429-448 Competition with Mandatory Labeling of Genetically Modified Products
by Linda A. Toolsema - 449-459 Collusion and Outcome Equivalency
by Dongsoo Shin - 460-476 Does it Pay to Have a Balanced Government Budget?
by Alfred Greiner - 477-508 Cross-Border Mergers and National Champions in an Integrating Economy
by Jens Südekum - 509-533 On the Internalization of Cross-National Externalities through Political Markets: The Case of Labour Standards
by Toke S. Aidt & Uk Hwang - 534-567 Endogenous Tariffs in the Presence of Multinationals
by Mario Larch - 568-585 Union Power as a Reason for Europe Not to Introduce Experience Rating?
by Florian Baumann & Nikolai Stähler
June 2008, Volume 164, Issue 2
- 195-210 On the Determinants of the Skill Premium in Wages
by Timo Vesala - 211-229 Bargaining Before or After Communication?
by Birger Wernerfelt - 230-253 Complementarity, Coordination, and Credit
by Alessandro Fedele & Andrea Mantovani - 254-279 Environmental Liability Law and Induced Technical Change: The Role of Spillovers
by Alfred Endres & Bianca Rundshagen & Regina Bertram - 280-301 International Share Ownership, Profit Shifting and Protectionism
by T. Huw Edwards - 302-326 International Market Access Rights and the Evolution of the International Trade System
by Carsten Herrmann-Pillath - 327-342 Optimal Investment in the Presence of Investment Shock and Congestion
by Alberto A. Gaggero - 343-355 On Adverse Selection of Technologies
by Matthias Kräkel - 356-379 Boycotts, Power Politics, or Trust Building: How to Prevent Conflict?
by Arne Schollaert & Dirk Van de gaer
March 2008, Volume 164, Issue 1
- 1-3 Editorial Preface
by Christoph Engel & Urs Schweizer - 4-23 Exploiting Plaintiffs through Settlement: Divide and Conquer
by Yeon-Koo Che & Kathryn E. Spier - 24-26 Exploiting Plaintiffs through Settlement: Divide and Conquer. Comment
by Jennifer F. Reinganum - 27-30 Exploiting Plaintiffs through Settlement: Divide and Conquer. Comment
by Alexander Stremitzer - 31-43 The Inquisitorial and the Adversarial Procedure in a Criminal Court Setting
by Bruno Deffains & Dominique Demougin - 44-46 The Inquisitorial and the Adversarial Procedure in a Criminal Court Setting. Comment
by Gerd Muehlheusser - 47-51 Inequality and Adversarial Criminal Procedure. Comment
by William J. Stuntz - 52-67 Civil Justice Reform: A Mechanism Design Framework
by Alon Klement & Zvika Neeman - 68-71 Civil Justice Reform: A Mechanism Design Framework. Comment
by Bruno Deffains - 72-75 Civil Justice Reform: A Mechanism Design Framework. Comment
by Hans-Bernd Schäfer - 76-94 Vague Terms: Contracting when Precision in Terms is Infeasible
by Benjamin E. Hermalin - 95-98 Poor Judicial Performance: When should the Parties Care?. Comment
by Christoph Engel Christoph Engel - 99-105 The Charms of Vagueness in Contracts. Comment
by Fernando Gomez - 106-126 Products Liability, Signaling and Disclosure
by Andrew F. Daughety & Jennifer F. Reinganum - 127-129 Products Liability, Signaling and Disclosure. Comment
by Yeon-Koo Che - 130-133 Products Liability, Signaling and Disclosure. Comment
by Alon Klement & Zvika Neeman - 134-154 Contractual Enforcement Institutions and the Structure of Information
by Avery W. Katz - 155-158 Contractual Enforcement Mechanisms and the Structure of Information. Comment
by Alan Schwartz - 159-162 Contractual Enforcement Institutions and the Structure of Information. Comment
by Urs Schweizer - 163-184 Modeling Tacit Collusion in Auctions
by Andreas Blume & Paul Heidhues - 185-188 Modeling Tacit Collusion in Auctions. Comment
by Ulrich Kamecke - 189-192 Tacit Collusion in Repeated Auctions. Comment
by Ulrich Schwalbe
December 2007, Volume 163, Issue 4
- 531-551 Regulating Damage Clauses in (Labor) Contracts
by Gerd Muehlheusser - 552-573 Building Social Trust: A Human-Capital Approach
by Fali Huang - 574-597 Delegation and Information Revelation
by Axel Gautier & Dimitri Paolini - 598-626 Corporate Governance and the Determinants of Investment
by Klaus Gugler & Dennis C. Mueller & B. Burcin Yurtoglu - 627-656 Uncertainty of Law and the Legal Process
by Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci & Bruno Deffains - 657-682 Information Provision and Monitoring of the Decision-Maker in the Presence of an Appeal Process
by Elisabetta Iossa & Giuliana Palumbo - 683-705 The Determinants of Judiciary Independence: Evidence from the Italian Constitutional Court (1956-2002)
by Nadia Fiorino & Fabio Padovano & Grazia Sgarra - 706-730 Entry of Formal Lenders and the Size of the Informal Credit Market
by Rajlakshmi Mallik - 731-758 Time-Inconsistent Domestic Environmental Policies and Optimal International Environmental Arrangements
by Aekapol Chongvilaivan & Jung Hur
September 2007, Volume 163, Issue 3
- 379-393 Principal-Agent Contracts under the Threat of Insurance
by Mariano Tommasi & Federico Weinschelbaum - 394-410 The Allocation of Authority in a Joint Project under Limited Liability
by Kerstin Puschke - 411-427 Measurement and Sources of Economies of Scope: A Primal Approach
by Jean-Paul Chavas & Kwansoo Kim - 428-447 Introducing a Signaling Institution: An Experimental Investigation
by Friedel Bolle & Jessica Kaehler - 448-466 Forbearance Lending and Soft Budget Constraints in Multiple Bank Financing
by Tobias Schüle - 467-482 Anarchy, Monopoly, and Predation
by Peter T. Leeson - 483-492 The Market as Organization
by Rudolf Richter - 493-502 The Culture of a Market: A Case Study of Open-Air Horse Markets
by Henrik Egbert - 503-516 A Cartel Analysis of the German Labor Institutions and its Implications for Labor Market Reforms
by Justus Haucap & Uwe Pauly & Christian Wey - 517-525 The New Institutional Economics of Markets. Comment
by Ani Guerdjikova - 526-529 Book Review
by Ekkehart Schlicht
June 2007, Volume 163, Issue 2
- 205-235 The Governance of Contracts: Empirical Evidence on Technology Licensing Agreements
by Eric Brousseau & Régis Coeurderoy & Camille Chaserant - 236-255 Does the Service Argument Justify Resale Price Maintenance?
by Norbert Schulz - 256-268 Market Structure and Technology Diffusion Incentives under Emission Taxes and Emission Reduction Subsidies
by Frans P. de Vries - 269-284 State Liability for Wrongful Conviction: Incentive Effects on Crime Levels
by Vincy Fon & Hans-Bernd Schäfer - 285-296 Corruption with Heterogeneous Enforcement Agents in the Shadow Economy
by Pinaki Bose & Luciana Echazu - 297-312 Asymmetric Information and the Form of Enterprise: Capitalist Firms and Consumer Cooperatives
by Kazuhiko Mikami - 313-335 Reference-Dependent Preferences and the Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence
by Christian Grund & Dirk Sliwka - 336-355 Business Groups in Emerging Markets: Financial Control and Sequential Investments
by Christa Hainz - 356-378 University Funding Reform, Competition, and Teaching Quality
by Alexander Kemnitz
March 2007, Volume 163, Issue 1
- 1-4 Editorial Preface
by Christoph Engel & Urs Schweizer - 5-22 On the Importance of Default Breach Remedies
by Randolph Sloof & Hessel Oosterbeek & Joep Sonnemans - 23-25 On the Importance of Default Breach Remedies. Comment
by Urs Schweizer - 26-29 On Contractual Defaults and Experimental Law and Economics. Comment
by Avishalom Tor - 30-45 Studying Labor Market Institutions in the Lab: Minimum Wages, Employment Protection, and Workfare
by Armin Falk & David Huffman - 46-51 Studying Labor Market Institutions in the Lab: Minimum Wages, Employment Protection, and Workfare. Comment
by John J. Donohue III - 52-55 The Cognitive Effect of a Minimum Wage. Comment
by Christoph Engel - 56-74 Ex Interim Voting: An Experimental Study of Referendums for Public-Good Provision
by Sven Fischer & Andreas Nicklisch - 75-80 Ex Interim Voting: An Experimental Study of Referendums for Public-Good Provision. Comment
by Lars P. Feld - 81-83 Ex Interim Voting: An Experimental Study of Referendums for Public-Good Provision. Comment
by Stefanie A. Lindquist - 84-101 Fairness Crowded Out by Law: An Experimental Study on Withdrawal Rights
by Georg Borges & Bernd Irlenbusch - 102-105 Fairness Crowded Out by Law: An Experimental Study on Withdrawal Rights. Comment
by Werner Güth & Georg von Wangenheim - 106-108 Fairness Crowded Out by Law: an Experimental Study on Withdrawal Rights. Comment
by Bettina Rockenbach - 109-132 Exclusionary Bundling and the Effects of a Competitive Fringe
by Anil Caliskan & David Porter & Stephen Rassenti & Vernon L. Smith & Bart J. Wilson - 133-137 Exclusionary Bundling and the Effects of a Competitive Fringe. Comment
by Christoph Engel - 138-142 Exclusionary Bundling and the Effects of a Competitive Fringe. Comment
by Paul Heidhues - 143-157 On the Coevolution of Retribution and Trustworthiness: An (Indirect) Evolutionary and Experimental Analysis
by Werner Güth & Hartmut Kliemt & M. Vittoria Levati & Georg von Wangenheim - 158-162 Evidence of the Need for Aggregate Litigation. Comment
by Theodore Eisenberg - 163-166 On the Coevolution of Retribution and Trustworthiness: An (Indirect) Evolutionary and Experimental Analysis. Comment
by Bernd Lahno - 167-186 Heuristics and Biases in Bankruptcy Judges
by Jeffrey J. Rachlinski & Chris Guthrie & Andrew J. Wistrich - 187-198 The Jurisprudence of Experimental Law and Economics. Comment
by Douglas A. Kysar - 199-202 Heuristics and Biases in Bankruptcy Judges. Comment
by Eric Langlais
December 2006, Volume 162, Issue 4
- 543-556 Information Acquisition Activity and Damage Measures
by Jeong-Yoo Kim & Kyoungwon Rhee - 557-570 Spatial Voting with Endogenous Timing
by Steffen Huck & Vicki Knoblauch & Wieland Müller - 571-600 Split-Award Tort Reform, Firm's Level of Care, and Litigation Outcomes
by Claudia M. Landeo & Maxim Nikitin - 601-626 On Risk Aversion and Investment: A Theoretical Approach
by John Fender & Peter Sinclair - 627-660 Endogenous Preferences and Social-Dilemma Institutions
by Anders Poulsen & Odile Poulsen - 661-682 Advertising and Conspicuous Consumption
by Daniel Krähmer - 683-701 R&D Cooperation, Innovation, and Growth
by Guido Cozzi & Ornella Tarola - 702-720 Cournot or Walras? Long-Run Results in Oligopoly Games
by Thomas Riechmann - 721-724 Book Review
by Ernst Maug
September 2006, Volume 162, Issue 3
- 391-411 Delegation of Authority as an Optimal (In)Complete Contract
by Andreas Roider - 412-423 Performance Measurement and Information Production
by Christian Laux & Volker Laux - 424-449 Organizational Design, Project Selection, and Incentives
by Maria De Paola & Vincenzo Scoppa - 450-469 Managerial Delegation and Merger Incentives with Asymmetric Costs
by Odd Rune Straume - 470-485 Charles Babbage, Technological Change and the "National System of Innovation"
by Nicola De Liso - 486-504 Wage Indexation and Monetary Policy
by Frank Heinemann - 505-515 Using Optional Job Rotation Programs to Gauge On-the-Job Learning
by Anil Arya & Brian Mittendorf - 516-534 Overlapping Jurisdictions, Proprietary Communities, and Competition in the Realm of Law
by Edward Stringham - 535-542 Book Review
by Patrick W. Schmitz
June 2006, Volume 162, Issue 2
- 227-252 Modeling Financial Incentives to Get the Unemployed Back to Work
by Jan Boone & Jan C. van Ours - 253-261 Endogenous Leadership in Teams
by Steffen Huck & Pedro Rey-Biel - 262-276 Two Types of Collusion in a Model of Hierarchical Agency
by Mehmet Bac & Serkan Kucuksenel - 277-290 Heterogeneity and Optimal Self-Reporting
by Eberhard Feess & Markus Walzl - 291-308 Taxing the Labor Income of Spouses
by Ludwig von Auer & Bettina Büttner - 309-328 Codetermination, R&D, and Employment
by Luis M. Granero - 329-346 A Micro Foundation of Core Stability in Positive-Externality Coalition Games
by Michael Finus & Bianca Rundshagen - 347-363 Voluntary versus Compulsory Solidarity: Theory and Experiment
by Werner Güth & Matthias Sutter & Harrie Verbon - 364-383 A Dynamic Theory of Cooperatives: The Link between Efficiency and Valuation
by Lewis Evans & Graeme Guthrie - 384-389 Book Review
by Rudolf Richter
2006, Volume 162, Issue 1
- 1-4 Editorial Preface
by Christoph Engel & Urs Schweizer
March 2006, Volume 162, Issue 1
- 5-20 Outside Director Liability: A Policy Analysis
by Bernard S. Black & Brian R. Cheffins & Michael Klausner - 21-25 Outside-Director Liability: A Policy Analysis. Comment
by Christian Schmies - 26-31 Outside-Director Liability: A Policy Analysis. Comment
by Achim Wambach - 32-49 Minority Blocks and Takeover Premia
by Mike Burkart & Denis Gromb & Fausto Panunzi - 50-52 Minority Blocks and Takeover Premia. Comment
by Peter O. Mülbert - 53-56 Minority Blocks and Takeover Premia. Comment
by Eva-Maria Steiger - 57-71 The Corporate Form as a Solution to a Discursive Dilemma
by Edward B. Rock - 72-75 The Advantage of the Corporate Form: Premise-Based Decision-Making in Teams and its Relation to Specialization, Professionalization, and Delegated Responsibility. Comment
by Erich Schanze - 76-79 Decision Cycling: Corporate Dilemma or Academic Frolic?. Comment
by Kenneth E. Scott - 80-96 Opening the Black Box of "Corporate Culture" in Law and Economics
by Donald C. Langevoort - 97-100 Corporate Culture as a Resource for Management. Comment
by Christoph Engel & Werner Güth