Journal of Public Economic Theory

1999 - 2025

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

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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

Volume 26, issue 4, 2024

Politics and income taxes: Progress and progressivity

Marcus Berliant and Pierre Boyer

Presenting objects for random allocation

Peng Liu and Sijia Xu

Efficiency and equity: A general equilibrium analysis of rent‐seeking

Ben J. Heijdra and Pim Heijnen

On the (robust) ex post stability of constitutions

Daeyoung Jeong and Semin Kim

The complementary role of distributive and criminal equity

Massimo D'Antoni and Avraham D. Tabbach

Criminal network, leniency, and market externalities

Giovanni Immordino, Salvatore Piccolo and Paolo Roberti

Policy rules and political polarization

Carsten Hefeker and Michael Neugart

Habits and externalities

Arthur Caplan

Corruption dynamics and political instability

Maurizio Lisciandra, Antonio Miralles Asensio and Fabio Monteforte

Volume 26, issue 3, 2024

Public infrastructure provision in the presence of terms‐of‐trade effects and tax competition

Karl J. Zimmermann

Comparing ad valorem and specific taxes with corporate social responsibility

Po‐Yuan Hsiao, K. L. Glen Ueng, Cheng‐Hau Peng and Horn‐In Kuo

Second‐best socially optimal R&D under output spillovers

Yassine Badra, Damien Gaumont and Christine Halmenschlager

Social security, bequests, and social comparisons

Kirill Borissov and Andrei Kalk

Stable and efficient networks with neighborhood‐influenced externalities

Ping Sun and Elena Parilina

Naïve learning as a coordination device in social networks

Wenhao Cheng

Welfare reducing vertical integration in a bilateral monopoly under Nash bargaining

Arijit Mukherjee and Uday Sinha

Long‐term care and myopia: Optimal linear subsidies for private insurance

Rosita Jasaityte and Justina Klimaviciute

Weak redistribution and certainty equivalent domination

Stephane Gauthier and Guy Laroque

Volume 26, issue 2, 2024

Nash equilibria in models of fiscal competition with unemployment

Yuya Kikuchi and Toshiki Tamai

Positional and conformist effects in voluntary public good provision

Francisco Cabo, Alain Jean‐Marie and Mabel Tidball

Endogenous property rights, credit market, and economic development

Niloy Bose, Richard Cothren and Nazanin Sedaghatkish

Should product‐specific advertisement be regulated in pharmaceutical markets?

Junichiro Ishida and Tsuyoshi Takahara

Endogenous subsidies for cleaner products: The role of ecofriendly consumers

Ornella Tarola and Cecilia Vergari

Volume 26, issue 1, 2024

Pricing energy consumption and residential energy‐efficiency investment: An optimal tax approach

Claude Crampes, Norbert Ladoux and Jean‐Marie Lozachmeur

Asymmetric regulators in polluting mixed oligopolies: Agency problems and second‐mover advantage

John C. Strandholm, Ana Espinola‐Arredondo and Felix Munoz‐Garcia

Should credit card rewards be taxed?

Oz Shy

Monopolistic competition, rising markups, and optimal taxation of participation

Eren Gürer

A generalized Hotelling–Downs model with asymmetric candidates

Elham Nikram and Dieter Balkenborg

Stable licensing schemes in technology transfer

Shin Kishimoto

Nonrenewable resource use sustainability and public debt

Nicolas Clootens and Francesco Magris

Patent licensing for signaling the cost‐reduction innovation: The case of the insider innovator

Cheng‐Tai Wu and Tsung-Sheng Tsai

Green industrial policy, information asymmetry, and repayable advance

Guy Meunier and Jean‐Pierre Ponssard

Optimal law enforcement when individuals are either moral or norm followers

Claude Fluet and Tim Friehe

FDI spillovers, new industry development, and economic growth

Thanh Tam Nguyen‐Huu and Ngoc‐Sang Pham

Persuading sincere and strategic voters

Toygar T. Kerman, P. Jean‐Jacques Herings and Dominik Karos

Double auction for trading perfect complements

Rakesh Chaturvedi and Ashish Kumar Pandey

Temptation and self‐control for the impure benevolent planner: The case of heterogeneous discounting

Takashi Hayashi, Noriaki Kiguchi and Norio Takeoka

Price and variety in the Salop model

Changying Li and Jianhu Zhang

Economies with rights: Efficiency and inequality

Carlos Hervés‐Beloso, Francisco Martínez‐Concha and Emma Moreno‐García

Fertility, heterogeneity, and the Golden Rule

Gregory Ponthiere

Prospect equality: A force of redistribution

Xiangyu Qu

Strategic interaction in the market for charitable donations: The role of public funding

Rune Hagen and Jorn Rattso

Licensing option to reduce rent extraction by the input supplier

Kuo‐Feng Kao and Arijit Mukherjee

Redistribution with needs

Ricardo Martinez and Juan D. Moreno‐Ternero