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December 2001, Volume 157, Issue 4
- 591-607 Delegated Information Acquisition and Capital Budgeting: On the Separation of Project Evaluation and Project Management
by Christian Laux - 608-622 The Determinants of Coal Contract Duration for the Powder River Basin
by Joe Kerkvliet & Jason F. Shogren - 623-633 How Much Fiscal Equalization? A Constitutional Approach
by Robert Fenge & Jakob von Weizsäcker - 634-650 The Credibility Problem in Unemployment Insurance Policy
by Robert A. J. Dur - 651-676 Indentured Migration in America's Great Basin: An Observation in Strategic Behavior in Cooperative Exchanges
by Scott Alan Carson - 677-679 Book Review
by Carsten Hefeker - 679-683 Book Review
by Hans-Peter Burghof - 683-685 Book Review
by Rabah Amir - 685-689 Book Review
by Gerald Spindler - 689-690 Book Review
by Helmut Bester
September 2001, Volume 157, Issue 3
- 359-379 The Economics of Free Internet Access
by Marco Haan - 380-412 A Theory of Ownership Arrangements and Smooth Transition
by Guoqiang Tian - 413-429 Should the Treasury Price Discriminate?. A Procedure for Computing Hypothetical Bid Functions
by Daniel Heller & Yvan Lengwiler - 430-442 Team Production, Sequential Investments, and Stochastic Payoffs
by Christoph Lülfesmann - 443-464 Employee Care and the Role of Nonprofit Organizations
by Patrick Francois - 465-477 Explaining Intraindustry Differences in the Extent of Vertical Integration
by Walter Elberfeld - 478-481 Book Review
by Simon Gächter - 481-483 Book Review
by Günter Knieps - 483-485 Book Review
by Ingo Vogelsang
June 2001, Volume 157, Issue 2
- 231-245 Mitigating Non-Contractability with Interim Randomization
by Roland Strausz - 246-264 Reciprocal Agency
by Seonghoon Jeon - 265-281 Green Tax Reform and Two-Component Unemployment: Double Dividend or Double Loss?
by Max Albert & Jürgen Meckl - 282-300 Technology Transfer under Asymmetric Information: The Role of Equity Participation
by Sugata Marjit & Arijit Mukherjee - 301-318 Reconsidering Money: Monetary Exchange with Additive Transaction Costs
by Philipp J. H. Schroeder - 319-330 Inclusive and Exclusive Social Capital in the Small-Firm Sector in Developing Countries
by Kurt Annen - 331-355 A Theoretical Model of Optimal Forest Resource Regimes in Developing Economies
by Shashi Kant & R. Albert Berry - 356-358 Book Review
by Armin Schmutzler
March 2001, Volume 157, Issue 1
- 1-2 Editorial Preface
by Christoph Engel & Urs Schweizer - 3-13 The Proper Scope of Government Viewed from an Ordoliberal Perspective: The Example of Competition Policy
by Wernhard Möschel - 28-48 A Pragmatist Approach to the Proper Scope of Government
by Jack Knight - 57-78 Nonmajoritarian Institutions and the Limits of Democratic Governance: A Political Transaction-Cost Approach
by Giandomenico Majone - 87-107 The Role of Markets and Government in Human-Capital Building and Education: A Research Program in Institutional Economics
by Joachim Jickeli - 116-126 The Government and Market Expectations
by Roger Guesnerie - 133-151 Natural Justice and Political Stability
by Ken Binmore - 162-175 A Utopia? Government Without Territorial Monopoly
by Bruno S. Frey - 187-219 Delineating the Proper Scope of Government: A Proper Task for a Constitutional Court?
by Christoph Engel
December 2000, Volume 156, Issue 4
- 531-531 Is Internet Voting a Good Thing?
by Tilman Boergers - 548-548 The Political Economy of International Emissions Trading Scheme Choice: A Theoretical Analysis
by Jan-Tjeerd Boom & Gert Tinggaard Svendsen - 567-567 Is Voluntary Government Possible? A Critique of Constitutional Economics
by Walter Block & Thomas J. DiLorenzo - 583-583 R&D Returns, Market Structure, and Research Joint Ventures
by Rabah Amir - 599-599 Inter- and Intraband Competition and the Manufacturer-Retailer Relationship
by Jerzy Mycielski & Yohannes E. Riyanto & Filip Wuyts - 625-625 Delegating a Risky Activity via Incentive Contracts and Liability Insurance
by Akihiro Watabe - 646-646 Wage Bargaining, Unemployment, and Growth
by Michael Bräuninger - 661-661 Negotiation in the Commons: Incorporating Field and Experimental Evidence into a Theory of Local Collective Action
by Jeffrey P. Carpenter - 684-684 Confronting the Sirens: Rational Behavior in the Face of Changing Preferences
by David Sally - 715-715 On the Equivalence and Non-Equivalence of James Buchanan and Ronald Coase
by Bingyuang Hsiung
September 2000, Volume 156, Issue 3
- 431-431 Product Differentiation and Price Competition Between a Safe and a Risky Seller
by Winand Emons - 445-445 On Some Undesirable Consequences of Education and Growth
by Pierre Cahuc & Fabien Postel-Vinay - 455-455 Learning for Employment, Innovating for Growth
by Josef Falkinger & Josef Zweimueller - 473-473 Skilled Labor Reallocation, Wage Inequality, and Unskilled Unemployment
by Volker Grossmann - 501-501 Why do Workers Spend so Much Time on Inferior Tasks?
by Otto H. Swank - 513-513 Custom, Capitalism, and the State: The Origins of Insecure Land Tenure in West Africa
by Kathryn Firmin-Sellers
June 2000, Volume 156, Issue 2
- 313-313 Another Tale of Two Cities: A Note on Institutions in Hong Kong and Singapore
by Beatrice Weder & Aymo Brunetti - 325-325 Near Rationality in a Principal-Agent Framework
by Anthony A. Sampson & Kevin Albertson - 335-335 Evolutionary Norm Enforcement
by Werner Gueth & Axel Ockenfels - 348-348 Increasing Efficiency by Giving Up Some Profit
by Kazuhiko Mikami - 360-360 Endogenous Imitation and Implications for Technology Policy
by Vesa Kanniainen & Rune Stenbacka - 382-382 Member States Liability for Infringement of the Free Movement of Goods in the EC: An Economic Analysis
by Roger Van Den Bergh & Hans-Bernd Schäfer - 404-404 Economic Cooperation in 19th Century Taiwan: Religion and Informal Enforcement
by Kelly B. Olds & Ruey-Hua Liu
March 2000, Volume 156, Issue 1
- 1-1 Editorial Preface
by Christian Kirchner & Rudolf Richter - 1-3 Big-Bang Transformations of Economic Systems - An Introductory Note
by Douglass C. North - 1-9 Economic Transition: Speed and Scope
by Kenneth J. Arrow - 1-19 Legislating for System Change - The Russian Company Acts of 1995 and 1998
by Erich Schanze - 1-35 The Political Foundation of Chinese Style Gradualism: A Paradox of too Strong Private Interests?
by Christian Henning & Xiaobo Lu - 1-64 The Role of the State in Making a Market Economy
by Victor Nee - 1-99 Legal Reforms in Russia: Visible Steps, Obvious Gaps, and an Invisible Hand?
by Alexander Blankenagel - 131-131 Private Ordering in the Czech Transformation Process
by Arsene Verny - 151-151 The Process of China's Market Transition (1978-1998): The Evolutionary, Historical, and Comparative Perspectives
by Yingyi Qian - 180-180 Lessons from the Past: Legal Transformation in Germany of the 19th Century
by Rainer Schroeder - 216-216 Understanding Underdevelopment: Challenges for Institutional Economics from the Point of View of Poor Countries
by Pranab K. Bardhan - 245-245 Soft Budget Constraints, Transition, and Industrial Change
by Mathias Dewatripont & Gerard Roland - 270-270 Constraints on Big-Bang Solutions: The Case of Intergenerational Transfers
by Liu Liqun & Andrew J. Rettenmaier & Thomas R. Saving - 300-300 Time, Transition, and Institutional Change - Concluding Comment
by James E. Alt - 306-306 Big-Bang Transformations of Economic Systems - Concluding Comment
by Klaus E. Herkenroth
December 1999, Volume 155, Issue 4
- 573-573 Schumpeter, Democracy, and the Scottish Enlightenments
by Charles R. McCann - 594-594 Veblen and Keynes on the Economic Theory of the Capitalist Economy
by Adil H. Mouhammed - 610-610 The Regulation of British Telecom: An Event Study
by Antony W. Dnes & Jonathan S. Seaton - 617-617 Information and Transaction Costs as the Determinants of Tolerable Growth Levels
by Enrico Colombatto & Jonathan Macey - 643-643 Economic Freedom and the Environment for Economic Growth
by James D. Gwartney & Robert A. Lawson & Randall G. Holcombe - 664-664 Social Comparisons, Inequality, and Growth
by Markus Knell - 696-696 Investing in Policy Reform
by Jim Leitzel & Erik Weisman - 710-710 The Two Germanies: Information Technology and Economic Divergence, 1949-1989
by Ulrich Blum & Leonard Dudley - 738-738 Specialization as a Specific Investment Into the Market: A Transaction Cost Approach to the Rise of Markets and Towns in Medieval Germany
by Ulrich Bindseil & Christian Pfeil - 755-778 Measuring Preferences by Subjective Well-Being
by Bruno S. Frey & Alois Stutzer - 779-781 Book Review
by H. Sautter - 781-782 Book Review
by Christopher Clague - 783-785 Book Review
by Detlef Aufderheide - 785-785 Book Review
by Bo Gustafsson - 786-788 Book Review
by Alfred Endres & Andreas Lüdeke - 788-790 Book Review
by Andreas Freytag - 790-792 Book Review
by Iris Bohnet
September 1999, Volume 155, Issue 3
- 405-405 On Custom in Economics: The Case of Humanism and Trade Regimes
by Barbara Krug - 429-429 The Economics of Religious Indulgences
by Alberto Cassone & Carla Marchese - 443-443 The Economics of the Apocalypse: Modelling the Biblical Book of Revelation
by Ian Smith - 458-458 The Use of Knowledge in Firms
by Nicolai J. Foss - 487-487 Strike Ballots as a Commitment Device
by Laszlo Goerke & Manfred J. Holler - 505-505 Risk-Sharing Institutions for Unpredictable Losses
by Goeran Skogh - 516-516 "Insurance Reversal" in an Agency Model With Uncertainty
by Nicola Dimitri - 527-527 International Environmental Agreements: How the Policy Instrument Affects Equilibrium Emissions and Welfare
by Alfred Endres & Michael Finus - 551-551 Aggregate Liquidity and Banking: The Role of Loan Commitments and Liquidity Constraints
by Kay Mitusch - 567-567 A Piece of Evidence Regarding the Full Rationality of Economic Agents
by Tommaso Luzzati
June 1999, Volume 155, Issue 2
- 249-249 Contracting in the Shadow of a Corrupt Court
by Vai-Lam Mui - 284-284 Dishonesty and Libel Law: The Economics of the "Chilling" Effect
by Nuno Garoupa - 301-301 Job Rotation: Cost, Benefits, and Stylized Facts
by Metin M. Cosgel & Thomas J. Miceli - 321-321 The Problem With Interim Employment
by Stephen Cunningham & Jon Vilasuso - 342-342 Incomplete Contracts and Breach Remedies
by Shingo Ishiguro - 362-362 Privatization and Restructuring: An Incomplete-Contract Approach
by Dieter Boes - 383-383 Health Insurance and Preventive Behavior
by Volker Meier
March 1999, Volume 155, Issue 1
- 1-1 Editorial Preface
by Herbert Hax - 1-3 Institutions of Corporate Governance
by Kenneth Scott - 1-22 On the Role of Bank Competition for Corporate Finance and Corporate Control in Transition Economies
by Monika Schnitzer - 1-51 Optimal Design of Bank Bailouts: The Case of Transition Economies
by Philippe Aghion, Patrick Bolton & Steven Fries - 1-80 Cross Holdings in Germany
by Michael Adams - 119-119 Corporate Contracting Around Defective Regulations: The Daimler-Chrysler Case
by Theodor Baums - 136-136 Monitoring and Consulting by an Imperfect Supervisor
by Peter Nippel - 158-158 Performance Measurement in Multi-Period Agencies
by Sunil Dutta & Stefan Reichelstein - 181-181 Auditor Liability and the Precision of Auditing Standards
by Ralf Ewert - 214-214 Performance Monitoring and Financial Disclosure Choice
by Phillip C. Stocken & Robert E. Verrecchia
December 1998, Volume 154, Issue 4
- 599-599 Local Public Goods and Jim Crow
by Dennis Halcoussis & Anton D. Lowenberg - 622-622 Mechanism Sufficient Statistic in the Risk-Neutral Agency Problem
by Dominique Demougin & Claude Fluet - 640-640 Rent Seeking, Technology Commitment, and Economic Development
by Chun-Lei Yang - 659-659 Price Rigidity and Asymmetric Price Adjustment in a Repeated Oligopoly
by Richard Damania & Bill Z. Yang - 680-680 Gains From Trade in a Deficit-Ridden Economy - Note
by Barbara Dluhosch & Andreas Freytag & Malte Krueger - 688-688 Gains From Trade in a Deficit-Ridden Economy - Further Analysis
by Ravi Batra & Hamid Beladi - 694-694 Editorial Preface
by Rudolf Richter - 696-696 The New Institutionalisms: Avenues of Collaboration
by Paul DiMaggio - 706-706 The Emergence and Diffusion of Institutional Forms
by Victor Nee & David Strang - 716-716 The Cognitive Turn in Institutional Analysis: Beyond NIE and NIS?
by Siegwart Lindenberg - 728-728 Economic and Sociological Institutionalism in Organization Theory: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
by Thomas Edeling - 735-735 Rules, Restrictions, Constraints: Structure and Process in the New Institutional Economics
by James E. Alt & Kenneth A. Shepsle - 744-744 The New Institutional Analysis of Politics
by Peter H. Aranson - 754-754 The Bases of Cooperation: Social Norms and the Rule of Law
by Jack Knight - 764-764 Coalitional Instability and Institutional Transformation
by Gary J. Miller - 774-774 Anthropology and the New Institutionalism
by Jean Ensminger
September 1998, Volume 154, Issue 3
- 481-481 On the Emergence of the Market Pattern
by Eduardo Zambrano - 499-499 What do Notaries do?. Overcoming Asymmetric Information in Financial Markets: The Case of Paris, 1751
by Philip T. Hoffman & Gilles Postel-Vinay & Jean-Laurent Rosenthal - 531-531 Tying Contracts and Asymmetric Information
by Ulrich Kamecke - 546-546 Superstardom and Monopolistic Power: Why Media Stars Earn More Than Their Marginal Contribution to Welfare
by Lex Borghans & Loek Groot - 572-588 Small Heterogeneous Cartels
by Sabine Böckem - 589-591 Book Review
by Gisela Kubon-Gilke - 591-592 Book Review
by David A. Reisman - 592-594 Book Review
by Annette Mummert - 595-596 Book Review
by Carrie A. Meyer - 596-598 Book Review
by Wolfgang Buchholz
June 1998, Volume 154, Issue 2
- 357-357 Adam Smith on Market and State
by David A. Reisman - 384-384 Language and Contract
by Oren Sussman - 406-406 Sense of Community: A Fundamental Concept of Institutional Economics
by Reinhard Pirker & Hermann Rauchenschwandtner - 422-450 Efficient Liability Rules for Multi-Party Accidents With Moral Hazard
by Eberhard Feess & Ulrich Hege - 451-453 Book Review
by Thomas Eger - 453-455 Book Review
by Mathias Erlei - 455-458 Book Review
by Pio Baake & Bernhard Wieland - 458-460 Book Review
by Chrysostomos Mantzavinos - 460-466 Book Review
by Thomas Wagner - 466-468 Book Review
by Wolfgang Franz - 469-470 Book Review
by Hans-Bernd Schäfer - 470-471 Book Review
by Erich Kaufer - 471-472 Book Review
by Warren J. Samuels - 473-474 Book Review
by Jürgen Frank - 474-479 Book Review
by Siegfried Katterle - 479-480 Book Review
by Kurt W. Rothschild
March 1998, Volume 154, Issue 1
- 1-1 Editorial Preface
by Jürgen Eichberger - 1-7 Universal Banking in Historical Perspective
by Richard Tilly - 1-44 Universal Banking "American-Style"
by Charles W. Calomiris - 1-61 On the Obsolescence of Commercial Banking
by Geoffrey P. Miller - 1-86 Mutual Funds as an Alternative Banking System
by Kenneth E. Scott - 109-109 Transformation of Banks and Bank Services
by Günter Franke - 144-144 Financial Systems and Corporate Governance: A Review of the International Evidence
by Colin Mayer - 177-177 Liquidity and Control: A Dynamic Theory of Corporate Ownership Structure
by Patrick Bolton & Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden - 224-224 Ownership and Corporate Governance of Stock Exchanges
by Johannes Köndgen - 261-261 International Capital Markets and Central Bank Sovereignty
by Jason L. Saving & Thomas R. Saving - 291-291 Financial Intermediation Versus Stock Markets in a Dynamic Intertemporal Model
by Sudipto Bhattacharya & Paolo Fulghieri & Riccardo Rovelli - 328-328 Financial Institutions in Transition: Banks, Markets, and the Allocation of Risks in an Economy
by Martin Hellwig - 352-352 Financial Institutions in Transition: Banks and Financial Markets. Concluding Comment
by Christian Kirchner
December 1997, Volume 153, Issue 4
- 607-607 The Institutional Foundations of Regulatory Commitment in the UK: The Case of Telecommunications
by Pablo T. Spiller & Ingo Vogelsang - 630-630 Strategic Manipulation of Property Rights in Coasean Bargaining
by Wolfgang Buchholz & Christian Haslbeck - 641-641 Vertical Integration in the Long Run: The Provision of Physical Assets to the London and New York Stock Exchanges
by Ulrich Bindseil - 657-657 The Centralization of Wage Bargaining, Investment, and Technological Change
by Tapio Palokangas - 675-675 The Transaction Cost Theory of the (Multinational) Firm - Note
by James H. Love - 683-683 The Transaction Cost Theory of the (Multinational) Firm - Reply
by C. Paul Hallwood
September 1997, Volume 153, Issue 3
- 441-441 University Governance and Academic Tenure: A Property Rights Explanation
by Willam O. Brown - 462-462 A Rational-Actor Perspective on the Origin of Liturgies in Ancient Greece
by Carl Hampus Lyttkens - 485-485 Economic Policy From an Evolutionary Perspective: A New Approach
by Gerhard Wegner - 510-510 Location Choice as a Signal for Product Quality: The Economics of 'Made in Germany'
by Justus Haucap & Christian Wey & Jens F. Barmbold - 532-532 Competencies as Private Information: An Efficient Capital Asset Pricing Theory of the Firm
by C. Paul Hallwood - 545-545 On the Employment Effect of Manning Rules
by Juergen Jerger & Jochen Michaelis - 569-578 From Loan Pushing to Credit Rationing: A Brief Note on Interest Shocks in a Model by Basu
by Thomas Ziesemer - 579-581 Book Review
by Duncan K. Foley - 581-582 Book Review
by Malcolm Rutherford - 582-587 Book Review
by Charles B. Blankart - 587-589 Book Review
by Serge-Christophe Kolm - 590-591 Book Review
by G. C. Harcourt - 591-593 Book Review
by Wolfgang Brandes - 593-596 Book Review
by Claus Ott - 596-598 Book Review
by Karl-Dieter Opp - 598-601 Book Review
by Horst Feldmann - 601-602 Book Review
by Francis Green - 602-606 Book Review
by Joachim Ahrens
June 1997, Volume 153, Issue 2
- 293-293 On the Formation of Political Coalitions
by Georg Kirchsteiger & Clemens Puppe