Details about Joel Watson

Access statistics for papers by Joel Watson.

Last updated 2023-06-07. Update your information in the RePEc Author Service.

Short-id: pwa36

Working Papers

2022

1. Starting small in project choice: A discrete-time setting with a continuum of types
   University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Theory (2022)

2021

2. Conservation Agreements: Relational Contracts with Endogenous Monitoring
   University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego
   See also Journal Article in The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (2021)
3. Nash, John Forbes (1928–2015)
   University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego
4. Theoretical Foundations of Relational Incentive Contracts
   University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego
   See also Journal Article in Annual Review of Economics (2021)

2020

5. On the outside-option principle with one-sided options
   University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego
   See also Journal Article in Economics Letters (2020)
6. Relational Contracting, Negotiation, and External Enforcement
   University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego View citations (3)
   Also in Discussion Papers, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science (2018) View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2020)

2019

7. Statistical evidence and the problem of robust litigation
   University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego View citations (5)
   Also in Working Papers, Florida International University, Department of Economics (2018) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article in RAND Journal of Economics (2019)

2014

8. A Contract-theoretic Model of Conservation Agreements
   University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego
   See also Chapter (2014)

2010

9. A ‘Reputation’ Refinement without Equilibrium
   Levine's Working Paper Archive, David K. Levine
   See also Journal Article in Econometrica (1993)
10. Client-Based Entrepreneurship
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (2015)
11. Contract, Renegotiation, and Hold Up: Results on the Technology of Trade and Investment
    University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article in Theoretical Economics (2012)
12. On 'Reputation' Refinements with Heterogeneous Beliefs
    Levine's Working Paper Archive, David K. Levine View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in Econometrica (1997)

2009

13. Contract, Renegotiation, and Hold Up: General Results on the Technology of Trade and Investment
    University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in Theoretical Economics (2012)
14. Hold-Up and Durable Trading Opportunities
    University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego View citations (1)

2006

15. Contract and Game Theory: Basic Concepts for Settings with Finite Horizons
    University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in Games (2013)
16. Contract and Mechanism Design in Settings with Multi-Period Trade
    University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego View citations (1)
17. Contract, Mechanism Design, and Technological Detail
    University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego
    Also in University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego (2002) View citations (5)
    Theory workshop papers, UCLA Department of Economics (2002) View citations (14)
    See also Journal Article in Econometrica (2007)
18. Hard Evidence and Mechanism Design
    University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego View citations (1)
    Also in Econometric Society 2004 North American Winter Meetings, Econometric Society (2004) View citations (5)
    University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego (2002) View citations (30)
    See also Journal Article in Games and Economic Behavior (2007)

2003

19. Are There Too Many Entrepeneurs? A Model of Client-Based Entrepreneurship
    Berkeley Olin Program in Law & Economics, Working Paper Series, Berkeley Olin Program in Law & Economics

2002

20. Entrepreneurship in International Trade
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (6)
    Also in University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego (2001) View citations (4)
21. Evidence Disclosure and Verfiability
    University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego View citations (2)
    Also in University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego (2000) View citations (13)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Theory (2004)
22. The Renegotiation-Proofness Principle and Costly Renegotiation
    University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego View citations (7)
    See also Journal Article in Games (2013)

2001

23. Economic and Legal Aspects of Costly Recontracting
    Yale School of Management Working Papers, Yale School of Management
    Also in University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego (2000) View citations (11)
    Yale School of Management Working Papers, Yale School of Management (2001) View citations (8)
24. Recurrent Trade Agreements and the Value of External Enforcement
    University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of International Economics (2008)
25. The Law and Economics of Costly Contracting
    University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego View citations (9)
    Also in Yale Law School John M. Olin Center for Studies in Law, Economics, and Public Policy Working Paper Series, Yale Law School John M. Olin Center for Studies in Law, Economics, and Public Policy View citations (54)

2000

26. Conditioning Institutions and Renegotiation
    University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego
    Also in Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University (1999) View citations (3)
27. Liquidity Flows and Fragility of Business Enterprises
    University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego
    Also in University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego (2000)
    Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University (1999) View citations (18)
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1999) View citations (21)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Monetary Economics (2003)

1999

28. Contract-Theoretic Approaches to Wages and Displacement
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (12)
    Also in Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University (1999) View citations (15)
    University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego (1999) View citations (9)
    See also Journal Article in Review (1999)
29. Contractual Intermediaries
    Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University View citations (5)
    Also in University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego (1999) View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (2002)
30. Job Destruction and the Experiences of Displaced Workers
    University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1999) View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article in Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy (2000)
31. Starting Small and Commitment
    Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University View citations (1)
    Also in University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego (1999)
    See also Journal Article in Games and Economic Behavior (2002)
32. Starting Small in an Unfamiliar Environment
    Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University View citations (4)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1999) View citations (11)
    University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC San Diego (1999) View citations (9)
    See also Journal Article in International Journal of Industrial Organization (2003)

1997

33. Job Destruction and Propagation of Shocks
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (36)
    See also Software Item (1997)
    Journal Article in American Economic Review (2000)

Journal Articles

2022

1. Starting small in project choice: A discrete-time setting with a continuum of types
   Journal of Economic Theory, 2022, 204, (C)
   See also Working Paper (2022)

2021

2. Conservation Agreements: Relational Contracts with Endogenous Monitoring
   (“Toward a Theory of Discounted Repeated Games with Imperfect Monitoring)
   The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2021, 37, (1), 1-40
   See also Working Paper (2021)
3. Theoretical Foundations of Relational Incentive Contracts
   Annual Review of Economics, 2021, 13, (1), 631-659
   See also Working Paper (2021)

2020

4. On the outside-option principle with one-sided options
   Economics Letters, 2020, 191, (C)
   See also Working Paper (2020)
5. Relational Contracting, Negotiation, and External Enforcement
   American Economic Review, 2020, 110, (7), 2153-97 View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper (2020)

2019

6. Statistical evidence and the problem of robust litigation
   RAND Journal of Economics, 2019, 50, (4), 974-1003 View citations (5)
   See also Working Paper (2019)

2015

7. Client-Based Entrepreneurship
   The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2015, 31, (1), 30-60 View citations (4)
   See also Working Paper (2010)

2013

8. A Theory of Disagreement in Repeated Games With Bargaining
   Econometrica, 2013, 81, (6), 2303-2350 View citations (34)
9. Conceptualizing Contractual Interpretation
   The Journal of Legal Studies, 2013, 42, (1), 1 - 34 View citations (6)
10. Contract and Game Theory: Basic Concepts for Settings with Finite Horizons
    Games, 2013, 4, (3), 1-40 View citations (6)
    See also Working Paper (2006)
11. The Renegotiation-Proofness Principle and Costly Renegotiation
    Games, 2013, 4, (3), 1-20 View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper (2002)

2012

12. Contract, renegotiation, and hold up: Results on the technology of trade and investment
    Theoretical Economics, 2012, 7, (2) View citations (10)
    See also Working Paper (2010)
    Working Paper (2009)

2008

13. Recurrent trade agreements and the value of external enforcement
    Journal of International Economics, 2008, 74, (2), 475-499 View citations (39)
    See also Working Paper (2001)

2007

14. Contract, Mechanism Design, and Technological Detail
    Econometrica, 2007, 75, (1), 55-81 View citations (34)
    See also Working Paper (2006)
15. Hard evidence and mechanism design
    Games and Economic Behavior, 2007, 58, (1), 75-93 View citations (65)
    See also Working Paper (2006)
16. Testing and the Composition of the Labor Pool
    Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2007, 109, (4), 883-903

2004

17. Evidence disclosure and verifiability
    Journal of Economic Theory, 2004, 118, (1), 1-31 View citations (88)
    See also Working Paper (2002)
18. Network Intermediaries in International Trade
    Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2004, 13, (1), 69-93 View citations (109)

2003

19. Liquidity flows and fragility of business enterprises
    Journal of Monetary Economics, 2003, 50, (6), 1215-1241 View citations (106)
    See also Working Paper (2000)
20. Starting small in an unfamiliar environment
    International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2003, 21, (7), 1021-1042 View citations (283)
    See also Working Paper (1999)

2002

21. Contractual Intermediaries
    The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2002, 18, (2), 362-384 View citations (7)
    See also Working Paper (1999)
22. Starting Small and Commitment
    Games and Economic Behavior, 2002, 38, (1), 176-199 View citations (58)
    See also Working Paper (1999)

2001

23. Bilateral Trade and Opportunism in a Matching Market
    The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2001, 1, (1), 1-35 View citations (35)

2000

24. Job Destruction and Propagation of Shocks
    American Economic Review, 2000, 90, (3), 482-498 View citations (715)
    See also Working Paper (1997)
    Software Item (1997)
25. Job destruction and the experiences of displaced workers
    Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 2000, 52, (1), 87-128 View citations (60)
    See also Working Paper (1999)

1999

26. Contract-theoretic approaches to wages and displacement
    Review, 1999, (May), 55-68 View citations (8)
    See also Working Paper (1999)
27. Starting Small and Renegotiation
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1999, 85, (1), 52-90 View citations (112)

1998

28. Alternating-Offer Bargaining with Two-Sided Incomplete Information
    Review of Economic Studies, 1998, 65, (3), 573-594 View citations (41)
29. Conditional Dominance, Rationalizability, and Game Forms
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1998, 83, (2), 161-195 View citations (71)
30. Multiple-Issue Bargaining and Axiomatic Solutions
    International Journal of Game Theory, 1998, 26, (4), 501-524 View citations (22)

1997

31. Contractual Fragility, Job Destruction, and Business Cycles
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1997, 112, (3), 873-911 View citations (111)
32. Learning about a population of agents and the evolution of trust and cooperation
    International Journal of Industrial Organization, 1997, 15, (2), 165-190 View citations (5)
33. On "Reputation" Refinements with Heterogeneous Beliefs
    Econometrica, 1997, 65, (2), 369-374 View citations (9)
    See also Working Paper (2010)

1996

34. Information Transmission When the Informed Party Is Confused
    Games and Economic Behavior, 1996, 12, (1), 143-161 View citations (31)
35. Reputation in Repeated Games with No Discounting
    Games and Economic Behavior, 1996, 15, (1), 82-109 View citations (7)

1994

36. Cooperation in the Infinitely Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma with Perturbations
    Games and Economic Behavior, 1994, 7, (2), 260-285 View citations (9)

1993

37. A "Reputation" Refinement without Equilibrium
    Econometrica, 1993, 61, (1), 199-205 View citations (15)
    See also Working Paper (2010)

1991

38. Communication and superior cooperation in two-player normal form games
    Economics Letters, 1991, 35, (3), 267-271 View citations (5)

Chapters

2014

1. A Contract-theoretic Model of Conservation Agreements
   Chapter 15 in Econometric Methods and Their Applications in Finance, Macro and Related Fields, 2014, pp 425-455
   See also Working Paper (2014)

Software Items

1999

1. FORTRAN code for Liquidity Flows and Fragility of Business Enterprises
   QM&RBC Codes, Quantitative Macroeconomics & Real Business Cycles

1997

2. FORTRAN code for Job Destruction and Propagation of Shocks
   QM&RBC Codes, Quantitative Macroeconomics & Real Business Cycles
   See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2000)
   Working Paper (1997)