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
Johnson, Dylan (Hamburg, 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 (Princeton 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)
Volume 182 (2026) / Price per volume (4 issues with approx. 750 pages)
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.
Forthcoming Articles
Regular Articles
Optimal Budget Institutions and Migration Externalities: The Role of Alternative Regional Criteria
Nuno Garoupa, Gabriel Doménech-Pascual
Compensating Non-Convicted Pretrial Detainees: The Strategic Impact on Detentions and Convications
Hamid Beladi, Arijit Mukherjee
Labour Unionisation Structure and Innovation under Convex Costs
Ethan Holdahl, Jiabin Wu
Institutional Screening and the Sustainability of Conditional Cooperation
Eberhard Feess, Roee Sarel, Thomas Schilling
Moral Accounting and Real Effort: Experimental Evidence
Julien Jacob, Bruno Lovat
Multiple Tortfeasors in High-Risk Activities: When Bargain Shapes Liability
Chong Wang, Mingli Zheng
Optimal competitiveness in partner compensation
Aleix Calveras, Juan-José Ganuza, and Fernando Gómez
Regulation, Trust and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Relationship of Complementarity
Jiancai Pi, Xiangyu Huang, Daqiang Song
Does Digitalization Improve Product Quality? Evidence from China
Shoji Haruna, Rajeev Goel
Trade Liberalization and Endogeneity in a Unified Model of Production and Consumption Pollution
Jeong-Yoo Kim
Product Recommendation and Self-Preferencing
Dmitriy Knyazev, Elsa Pivard
Contracts to Prevent Corruption in Auctions
Jaeok Park, Jinhyuk Lee, Chulyoung Kim, Sang-Hyun Kim
An Experimental Study of Auctions with Externalities