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 181 (2025) / 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.
Submissions
From Submission to Publication
Step 1: Prepare your manuscript
Please ensure that your manuscript is formatted according to the JITE specifications. We encourage you to utilize our templates. (see below)
Step 2: Submit your manuscript
Upload your manuscript to our online submissions portal. By submitting your manuscript, you agree to our publication ethics found here. There is no submission fee.
Step 3: Manuscript review and decision
If your manuscript is deemed to be suitable for review, it will be reviewed by two referees.
Time first submission to final decision: Approximately 10 weeks
Time final submission to publication: Approximately 6 weeks
After acceptance, please send the final version of manuscript to the Editorial Office (e-mail: johnson@mohrsiebeck.com) as a PDF file and as a LaTeX or MS Word file in order to allow for electronic formatting and language editing.
Step 4: Copyediting and typesetting
After you have sent the PDF and editable file versions of your manuscript to the Editorial Office, it will be formatted according to our in-house style and checked for errors in spelling, grammar, and citation.
Once copyediting and typesetting have been completed, you will receive an e-mail with a link to access the proof of your manuscript for review.
Step 5: Online First publication
After you approve the edits and comments that have been made to your article in the online platform, it will then be ready for publication. In order to make your contribution visible and readable as soon as possible, all accepted articles will be published in an Online First version visible on our website. These articles already have their final layout and are searchable and citable by their DOI.
Step 6: Publication within an issue
Your article will be assigned for publication within an issue of JITE. It will then be featured in both the print and the online version of this issue.
Manuscripts
Formatting specifications
Please ensure that your manuscript complies with the full list of requirements found here.
Manuscripts must be in English (American spelling is preferred). Manuscripts should be single-spaced with wide margins and should not exceed 25 pages. Title and subtitles should be concise, the use of footnotes should be kept to a minimum.
The first page of the manuscript should contain the following information:
1. title of the paper
2. name(s) of author(s)
3. date of submission
4. abstract (not exceeding 100 words)
5. keywords (up to five)
6. Journal of Economic Literature classification.
Author information should include the institutional affiliation(s) and ROR ID, e-mail address, and ORCiD (if applicable) for each contributor. Please indicate one corresponding author.
Downloadable templates
We encourage authors to utilize the following article templates:
For Microsoft Word users, the template can be found here.
For LaTeX users, the template can be found here.
Should you need an unzip program in order to extract individual files, we recommend PeaZip for Linux and Windows or TheUnarchiver for macOS, which are free of charge.
Editorial Policy
By submitting a manuscript, you declare that it is composed of your own original work and that you will not (and have not) submit(ted) this article elsewhere.
Acceptance for publication will be confirmed in writing following editorial review by the editorial board, subject to the condition that the manuscript has not been published elsewhere or submitted for publication. Randomly selected submissions and suspected cases will be checked for plagiarism using software. Please note that by submitting your manuscript, you agree to the Publication Ethics.
If your article is accepted for publication in the journal, you grant Mohr Siebeck Publishing exclusive publishing rights. These publishing rights include the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute the article and to make it publicly available; this also covers unknown types of use. You retain the right to reproduce and distribute the digital offprint of your own contribution for private use (e.g., by email), but not to make it publicly available (e.g., on the Internet, intranet, or repository). Offering to send the PDF via social media is prohibited. For articles in journals, exclusivity expires 12 months after publication. Accordingly, you may then (a) reproduce the article elsewhere and distribute it in printed form; (b) grant another publisher simple reprint permission; (c) make the data from their own article publicly available in the printed version, provided this is not for commercial purposes. In all cases, the version published by Mohr Siebeck and, if available, the DOI must be referenced in full. The publication will be archived long-term with Portico and CLOCKSS to ensure its long-term availability.
After the issue is published, all authors will receive a free printed copy.