Journal of Public Economic Theory

1999 - 2025

Current editor(s): Rabah Amir, Gareth Myles and Myrna Wooders

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Volume 27, issue 6, 2025

Persuading Through Media Bias With News Diffusion

Bartosz Redlicki

Sabotage and Free Riding in Contests With a Group‐Specific Public Good/Bad Prize

Kyung Baik and Dongwoo Lee

Polarization as Pluralistic Ignorance

Kenjiro Asami and Daiki Kishishita

Tax and Subsidy Policies in a Two‐Sided Market: An Application to the Digital Healthcare Industry

Doriani Lingga, Simona Fabrizi and Steffen Lippert

Economic Stimulus Effects of Product Innovation Under Demand Stagnation

Daisuke Matsuzaki and Yoshiyasu Ono

Emissions Taxes Versus Tradeable Permits With Many Countries

Helmuts Azacis and David R. Collie

The Realizing Potential Rule and Other Axiomatic Rankings of Ordinal Performance Improvements

Guy Barokas

Trade and Environmental Policies With Special Interest Politics: A Case of Asymmetric Information

Gaurav Bhattacharya and Meeta Mehra

Catch Laffer If You Can: Tax Take in an Evasion‐Detection Game

Rosaria Distefano and Francesco Reito

Selective Contracting in Heath Care: Is There an Optimal Network Size?

Michel Mougeot and Florence Naegelen

Robust Collective Agreements: A Theory of Cooperation Under Heterogeneity and Limited Enforcement

Gustavo Nicolas Paez Salamanca

Anti‐Consumerism: Stick or Carrot?

Iwan Bos, Giovanni Maccarrone and Marco Marini

International Cross‐Ownership, Tariff Simplification, and Welfare Superiority

Qidi Zhang, Leonard F. S. Wang and Ya‐Po Yang

Delegated Networking

Jing Fu and Frank Page

Monopoly in Bilateral Exchange: Some Historico‐Analytical Remarks

Francesca Busetto, Giulio Codognato, Franco Donzelli, Sayantan Ghosal and Damiano Turchet

Emission Markets Linkage and Strategic Environmental Policy

Fabio Antoniou, Panos Hatzipanayotou and Nikos Tsakiris

Strategic Considerations of Critical Mineral Depletion and Recycling Under Markovian Competition

Weihua Ruan and Benteng Zou

Ramsey's Conjecture in Dynamic Contests

Kerim Keskin, Sıla Pehlivan and Çağrı Sağlam

Environmentally Conscious Fishing Communities and Fishing Quota Negotiations: The Impact of Environmental Externalities

Elias Asproudis and Eleftherios Filippiadis

Progressive Taxation and Long‐Run Income Inequality Under Endogenous Growth

Juin‐Jen Chang, Jang‐Ting Guo and Wei‐Neng Wang

Volume 27, issue 5, 2025

Useful Public Spending, Taylor Principle, and Macroeconomic Instability

Antoine Le Riche

Profiting From Regulation: The Effects of Emissions Standards on Abatement R&D

Johanna‐Sophia Hardt, Heidrun Hoppe‐Wewetzer and Felix B. Klapper

An Economic Model of the French Revolution

Kishore Gawande and Benjamin Zissimos

Riding the Green Bandwagon: An Analysis of Green Social Influences on Sustainability Communication

Joshua Hilton

The Effects of Reference Dependence on Judicial Persuasion

Matthew J. Robertson

Minorities in Dictatorship and Democracy

Arseniy Samsonov

Controlling Extortion and Collusion: Morality, Peer‐Effect, and the Strategies Beyond Punishment

Dyuti S. Banerjee, Panchali Banerjee and Vivekananda Mukherjee

Optimal Interventions When Illicit Trafficking Responds

Mehmet Bac

Disclosing Effort in Dynamic Team Contests With Effort Complementarity

Maria Arbatskaya and Hideo Konishi

Banking on Bias: Media Coverage and Financial Bailouts

Saltuk Ozerturk

Skill‐Biased Technological Changes, Nonseparable Utility, and Dynamic Optimal Capital Tax

Qiongqiong Li and Wenjian Li

Optimal Incentives With Other‐Regarding Principal and Agents

Swapnendu Banerjee, Somenath Chakraborty, Arijit Mukherjee and Sougata Poddar

“Shop Until You Drop”: The Effects of Antihedonism and Environmentalism

Giovanni Maccarrone, Marco Marini and Ornella Tarola

Price Discrimination by a Mixed‐Objective Firm

Arup Bose, Kenneth Fjell, John Heywood and Debashis Pal

Merger Review Under Asymmetric Information

Corinne Langinier and Amrita RayChaudhuri

Rising Skill Premium, Education Funding, and Education Decision

Joel Hellier

Lobbying as a Signal

Artyom Jelnov and Doron Klunover

Nonemptiness of the f‐Core Without Comprehensiveness

Hideo Konishi and Dimitar Simeonov

In‐Group Versus Out‐Group Preferences in Intergroup Conflict: An Experiment

Subhasish Chowdhury, Anwesha Mukherjee and Roman M. Sheremeta

Volume 27, issue 4, 2025

Merger Policy and the Timing of Killer and Continuation Acquisitions

Antonio Tesoriere

Coalitions Improve the Coordination and Provision of Public Goods: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Sheryl Ball, Sudipta Sarangi and Sakshi Upadhyay

Do the Poor Benefit From a Well Defined Tax Regime?

Marisa Ratto and Simon Vicary

Efficiency of the Minimum Approval Mechanism With Heterogeneous Players

Gabriel Bayle and Marc Willinger

Limited Farsightedness in Priority‐Based Matching

Ata Atay, Ana Mauleon and Vincent Vannetelbosch

Existence of Equilibria for Shared Goods

John Weymark

Social Discount Rates Under Persistent Risks: A Theoretical and Numerical Analysis

Hélène Schernberg

The Role of Endogenous Timing in Public Goods Provision and Its Implications for Welfare

Leonardo J. Basso, Pedro Jara ‐ Moroni and Eduardo Zúñiga ‐ Leyton

Ownership Structure and Fiscal Externalities in a System of Cities

Vincent Boitier

On Donations: Pure and Impure Altruism

Marta Faias and Emma Moreno‐García

Lockdowns and the Aggregate Dynamics of a Pandemic: Mind the Rebound!

Hubert Kempf and Stéphane Rossignol

Global Carbon Taxation: Analyzing Pollution Effects When Mobile Firms Trade

Nelly Exbrayat, Stéphane Riou and Skerdilajda Zanaj

Effects of Childcare Policies on Fertility and Maternal Labor Supply: Focus on Endogenous Gender Power Within Households

Ryo Sakamoto

On the (Ir)Relevance of Discount Factors for Future Allocations of Scarce Resources

Jean‐Marc Bonnisseau, Alain Chateauneuf and Jean‐Pierre Drugeon

Emission Tax and Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility Under Relative Profit Performance Competition: Committed Versus Time‐Consistent Tax Policies

Mingqing Xing and Sang‐Ho Lee

Volume 27, issue 3, 2025

Environmental R&D Tournaments

John C. Strandholm and Eric P. Dunaway

On the Public and Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

Emma Moreno‐García and Ramόn J. Torregrosa

Climate Policy Under National Commitments and Global Economic Shocks

Anwesha Banerjee and Stefano Barbieri

Vaccine‐Preventable Diseases and Individual Behavior: Deterministic vs Stochastic Outcomes

Simone Marsiglio and Marco Tolotti

Why the Statutory Retirement Age Is Too Low in a Democracy

Berthold U. Wigger

Expectational Equilibria and Drèze Equilibria in Many‐to‐One Matching Models

P. Jean‐Jacques Herings

Binary Self‐Selective Voting Rules

Héctor Hermida‐Rivera and Toygar T. Kerman

Optimal Timing in Competition for Advantage: A Two‐Stage Contest

Konstantinos Protopappas

Voluntary Contributions to a Public Good: When and How Much?

Yunjie Shi, Simona Fabrizi and Steffen Lippert

Volume 27, issue 2, 2025

Does Equal Income Maximize Social Welfare When Multiple Pure Public Goods Are Privately Provided?

Jun‐ichi Itaya, Atsue Mizushima and Gareth Myles

Games of Social Interactions With Externalities

Subir K. Chakrabarti, Alexander Shapoval and Shlomo Weber

Condorcet Was Wrong, Pareto Was Right: Families, Inheritance and Inequality

Frank Cowell and Dirk Van de gaer

Finding Out Who You Are: A Self‐Exploration View of Education

Sungmin Park

Intermediate Condorcet Winners and Losers

Salvador Barberà and Walter Bossert

School Segregation and Outside Options

Sumeyra Akin

Leadership in Public Good Games and Private Information on Own Social Value Orientation

Edward Cartwright, Yidan Chai and Lian Xue

Dynamic Volunteer's Dilemma With Procrastinators

Yixuan Shi

Delegation as a Signal: Implicit Communication With Full Cooperation

Joanna Franaszek

CvdN Equilibrium and Share Equilibrium in Local Public Good Economies

Nathan W. Chan and Anne van den Nouweland

Just Lindahl Taxation—A Welfarist Solution

Ivan Anich and Matt Van Essen

Volume 27, issue 1, 2025

How to Deal with Exchange Rate Risk in Infrastructure and Other Long‐Lived Projects

Luciano de Castro, Claudio Frischtak and Arthur Rodrigues

Matching Versus Raffles as a Fund‐Raising Device

Paul Pecorino

Norms and Efficiency in a Multi‐Group Society: An Online Experiment

Marco Catola, Simone D'Alessandro, Pietro Guarnieri and Veronica Pizziol

Complainer's Dilemma

Greg Leo and Jennifer Pate

Corrigendum: Heterogeneity, Impatience, and Dynamic Private Provision of a Discrete Public Good

Jinping Zhang and Zhentao Zou

Deliberation and Voting: A Matter of Truth or Taste

Masayuki Odora

Persuasion in Networks With Strategic Substitutes

Guopeng Li and Yang Sun

Social Norms Drivers on Public Good Contributions

Lionel Richefort and Pauline Pedehour

The Role of Social Signaling and Ethnic Norms in Charitable Giving: A Field Experiment in Vietnam

Quang Nguyen, Huong Trang Kim, Minh Trinh and Shing‐Wan Chang

Pareto Improving Reforms in the Presence of Spillovers and Spillbacks

Ourania Karakosta, Nikos Tsakiris and Nikolaos Vlassis

Contractual Requirements and Bidding Behavior in Public Procurement With Entry

Samielle Drake and Fei Xu