Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE)
Editors
Bayer, Ralph-C. (University of Adelaide, Australia)
Muehlheusser, Gerd (University of Hamburg, Germany) – Managing Editor
Editorial Office
Hallmann, Regine (Berlin, Germany)
Advisory Board
Che, Yeon-Koo (Columbia University, USA)
Engel, Christoph (Max Planck Institute Bonn, Germany)
Holmström, Bengt R. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Ju, Biung-Ghi (Seoul National University, Republic of Korea)
MacLeod, W. Bentley (Columbia University, USA)
Roemer, John E. (Yale University, USA)
Schweizer, Urs (University of Bonn, Germany)
Spier, Kathryn E. (Harvard Law School, USA)
Weingast, Barry R. (Stanford University, USA)
Wolfstetter, Elmar G. (Humboldt University at Berlin, Germany)
ISSN 0932-4569 (Print Edition)
ISSN 1614-0559 (Online Edition)
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Founded as Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft in 1844.
Founded as Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft in 1844.
As one of the oldest journals in the field of political economy, the Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) deals traditionally with the problems of economics, social policy, and their legal framework. JITE is listed in: Baidu Scholar, Ebsco Discovery Service, EconLit, IBSS, Journal of Economic Literature, Kuselit Online, RePEc, SCOPUS, and in Web of Science SSCI.
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From 2013 on all accepted articles are published in an Online First version (in their final layout) to make them searchable and citable by their DOI immediately after peer review and acceptance. Once the article is published in an issue of the journal, the Online First version will be removed.
38th International Seminar on the New Institutional Economics - Judicial Decision-Making
Contents
pp. I-II (2)
Conference Preface
Conference Article 1
Yehonatan Givati, Israel Rosenberg
Conference Comment 1
Urs Schweizer
Michael Kurschilgen
Conference Article 2
Daniel Klerman
Conference Comment 2
Michael Karayanni, Ralf Michaels
Is Choice of Law Biased? How Would we Know?
pp. 51-64 (14)
Conference Article 3
Charles M. Cameron, Lewis A. Kornhauser
Conference Comment 3
Urs Schweizer
Conference Article 4
Nicholas Goldrosen, Christian Michael Smith, Maria-Veronica Ciocanel, Rebecca Santorella, Shilad Sen, Shawn Bushway, Chad M. Topaz
Conference Comment 4
Daniel S. Nagin
Christoph Engel
Do Not Draw a Black Ball from the Justice Lottery
pp. 118-120 (3)
Conference Article 5
Rachael K. Hinkle
Publication and Strategy in the U.S. Courts of Appeals
pp. 121-145 (25)
Conference Comment 5
Michael A. Livermore
Selection Bias and Causal Inference in Empirical Studies of the U.S. Courts of Appeals
pp. 146-151 (6)
Conference Article 6
Keren Weinshall, Ifat Taraboulos
Plaintiff Favoritism in Judicial Cost-Shifting Decisions
pp. 156-189 (34)
Conference Comment 6
Morgan L. W. Hazelton
Case Resolutions in the Shadow of Court-Ordered Litigation Costs
pp. 190-194 (5)
Alexander Morell
Plaintiff Favoritism in Judicial Cost-Shifting Decisions
pp. 195-199 (5)
Conference Article 7
Conference Comment 7
Conference Article 8
Conference Comment 8
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Online First Articles
Michele Santoni
How Do Bureaucratic Budget Competition and Collective Bargaining Affect the Share of Temporary Employment?
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Kuang-Cheng Andy Wang, Ping-Yao Chou, Shao-Hsun Keng
Werner Neus, Manfred Stadler
The Tragedy of the Common Holdings: Coordinated Manager Compensation and Price Competition
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Forthcoming Articles
Regular Articles
Tuna Abay, Simone Moriconi
Managerial Firms, Taxation, and Welfare
Paul Belleflamme, Martin Peitz
Network Goods, Price Discrimination, and Two-Sided Platforms
Marco A. Haan
The Competitive Effects of Consumer Boycotts
Shaun Larcom, Luca Panzone; Po-Wen She
Food for the Soul and the Planet: Measuring the Impact of the Return of Meatless Fridays for (some) UK Catholics
Arijit Mukherjee
Cooperative R&D for a New Product under Convex Production Costs
Werner Neus, Manfred Stadler
The Tragedy of the Common Holdings: Coordinated Manager Compensation and Price Competition
Michele Santoni
How do Bureaucratic Budget Competition and Collective Bargaining Affect the Share of Temporary Employment?
Urs Schweizer
Liability for Accidents between Road Users whose Activity Levels Are Verifiable
Ryusuke Shinohara
Sabotaging Teammates and Rent Dissipation in Rent-Seeking Contest
Kuang-Cheng Andy Wang, Ping-Yao Chou, Shao-Hsun Keng
Reexamining Ad Valorem and Specific Taxation under Uncertainty
Symposium on Credence Goods
Winand Emons, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Gerd Muehlheusser
Editorial Preface
Jianpei Li, Yaofu Ouyang, Wanzhu Zhang
Expert Costs and the Role of Verifiability
Yuk-fai Fong, Ting Liu, Xiaoxuan Meng, Lin Zhao
Treatment Delay in Credence Goods Markets
Florian Baumann, Alexander Rasch
Second Opinions and Diagnostic Uncertainty in Expert Markets
Uwe Dulleck, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Alexander Konovalov
Too Much or Too Little? Price Discrimination in a Market for Credence Goods
Martin Obradovits, Philipp Plaickner
Searching for Treatment
Anna Ulrichshofer, Markus Walzl
A Labor Market for Persuaders: Theory and Evidence from Financial Advice
Symposium on Relational Contracts
Matthias Fahn, W. Bentley MacLeod, Gerd Muehlheusser
Editorial Preface
Jonathan Thomas, Tim Worrall
Self-Enforcing Wage Contracts Redux
W. Bentley MacLeod, James M. Malcomson
Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment: Thirty Years On
Parikshit Ghosh, Debraj Ray
The Social Equilibrium of Rational Arrangements
Rocco Macchiavello, Ameet Morjaria
Relational Contracts: Recent Empirical Advancements and Open Questions
George Baker, Robert Gibbons, Kevin J. Murphy
From Incentives to Control to Adaptation: Exploring Interactions between Formal and Relational Governance
David Pearce, Ennio Stacchetti
Relational Contracts: Reputation, and Renegotiation
David A. Miller, Joel Watson
An Active-Contracting Perspective on Equilibrium Selection in Relational Contracts
Ola Kvaløy, Trond E. Olsen
Cooperation versus Competition between Agents in Relational Contracts
Jin Li, Niko Matouschek
Making and Breaking Promises when their Costs are Private Information
Marina Halac
Revealing the Value of Relationships
David Huffman
Relational Contracting: Complementarities with Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Reading sample
Urs Schweizer
Damages Regimes, Precaution Incentives, and the Intensity Principle," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE). 2013, 169, 567 – 586
Online Access
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Editors
Editors
As of May 1, Ralph-Christopher Bayer replaced Biung-Ghi Ju as editor of JITE. We are grateful to Biung-Ghi Ju for his long lasting service in this role, and we are happy to announce that he will continue to support the journal by becoming a member of the Advisory Board.
Ralph-C. Bayer
Professor of Economics at the University of Adelaide.
Research fields: public economics, behavioral game theory, experimental economics, industrial organization.
Publications: Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Public Economics, European Economic Review, and others.
E-mail: ralph.bayer@adelaide.edu.au
Gerd Muehlheusser – Managing Editor
Professor of Microeconomics at the University of Hamburg.
Research fields: contract theory, industrial organization, law & economics, organizational economics, behavioral economics, and economics of sports. Publications: The RAND Journal of Economics, European Economic Review, The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, and others.
E-mail: jite@mohrsiebeck.com
Editorial Office
Hallmann, Regine (Berlin, Germany)
Advisory Board
Che, Yeon-Koo (Columbia University, USA)
Engel, Christoph (Max Planck Institute Bonn, Germany)
Holmström, Bengt R. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Ju, Biung-Ghi (Seoul National University, Republic of Korea)
MacLeod, W. Bentley (Columbia University, USA)
Roemer, John E. (Yale University, USA)
Schweizer, Urs (University of Bonn, Germany)
Spier, Kathryn E. (Harvard Law School, USA)
Weingast, Barry R. (Stanford University, USA)
Wolfstetter, Elmar G. (Humboldt University at Berlin, Germany)
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