Journal of Public Economic Theory

1999 - 2025

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Volume 22, issue 6, 2020

Introduction to the thematic issue on “Regulation in health, environmental and innovation sectors” pp. 1740-1745

Rabah Amir, Joana Resende and Bernard Sinclair‐Desgagné

Cost–benefit analysis of age‐specific deconfinement strategies pp. 1746-1771

Christian Gollier

Environmental certification programs: How does information provision compare with taxation? pp. 1772-1800

Andrea Podhorsky

Can mandatory certification promote greenwashing? A signaling approach pp. 1801-1851

Dolores Garrido, Ana Espínola‐Arredondo and Felix Munoz‐Garcia

Make and buy in a polluting industry pp. 1852-1874

Takeshi Iida and Arijit Mukherjee

Cumulative innovation, open source, and distance to frontier pp. 1875-1920

Luigi Balletta and Antonio Tesoriere

Thinking inside the box: Optimal policy towards a footloose R&D‐intensive firm pp. 1921-1942

Gerda Dewit and Dermot Leahy

Income inequality and technological progress: The effect of R&D incentives, integration, and spillovers pp. 1943-1964

António Osório and Alberto Pinto

Labor market regulation under self‐enforcing contracts pp. 1965-2018

Sahin Avcioglu and Bilgehan Karabay

Corruption, tax evasion, and seigniorage in a monetary endogenous growth model pp. 2019-2050

Réda Marakbi and Patrick Villieu

The merger paradox, collusion, and competition policy pp. 2051-2081

Filomena Garcia, Jose Manuel Paz y Miño and Gustavo Torrens

The limited liability effect: Implications for anticompetitive horizontal mergers pp. 2082-2102

Bernard Franck and Nicolas Le Pape

Volume 22, issue 5, 2020

Partisan and bipartisan gerrymandering pp. 1183-1212

Hideo Konishi and Chen-Yu Pan

Reproductive health, fairness, and optimal policies pp. 1213-1244

Johanna Etner, Natacha Raffin and Thomas Seegmuller

Taxation of capital income in overlapping generations economies pp. 1245-1261

Torben M. Andersen

Are short‐term effects of pollution important for growth and optimal fiscal policy? pp. 1262-1288

Sugata Ghosh, Trishita Ray Barman and Manash Ranjan Gupta

Free riders and the optimal prize in public‐good funding lotteries pp. 1289-1312

Paan Jindapon and Zhe Yang

Diffusion and adoption of advanced emission abatement technology induced by permit trading pp. 1313-1337

Alfred Endres, Tim Friehe and Bianca Rundshagen

Optimal age‐dependent income taxation in a dynamic extensive model: The case for negative participation tax on young people pp. 1338-1367

Takao Kataoka and Yoshihiro Takamatsu

Endogenous formation of multiple social groups pp. 1368-1390

Ngoc M. Nguyen, Lionel Richefort and Thomas Vallee

Social welfare, parental altruism, and inequality pp. 1391-1419

Pietro Reichlin

Standards policy and international trade: Multilateralism versus regionalism pp. 1420-1441

Yasuhiro Takarada, Yasushi Kawabata, Akihiko Yanase and Hiroshi Kurata

Optimal growth when consumption takes time pp. 1442-1461

Thai Ha‐Huy, Cuong Le Van and Thi‐Do‐Hanh Nguyen

Does technology licensing matter for privatization? pp. 1462-1480

Leonard F. S. Wang, Arijit Mukherjee and Chenhang Zeng

Shapley and Scarf housing markets with consumption externalities pp. 1481-1514

Maria Graziano, Claudia Meo and Nicholas C. Yannelis

Equilibrium opacity in ultimatum‐offer bargaining pp. 1515-1529

Kai Konrad and Marcel Thum

Political activism and polarization pp. 1530-1558

Raghul S. Venkatesh

Motivation crowding‐out and green‐paradox‐like outcomes pp. 1559-1583

Simone Marsiglio and Marco Tolotti

Labor market characteristics and cultural choice pp. 1584-1617

Christopher Ellis, Jon C. Thompson and Jiabin Wu

A theory of reverse retirement pp. 1618-1659

Gregory Ponthiere

Voting over selfishly optimal tax schedules: Can Pigouvian tax redistribute income? pp. 1660-1686

Darong Dai

Aiding refugees, aiding peace? pp. 1687-1704

M. Christian Lehmann

The effect of a progressive taxation scheme on the endogenous formation of jurisdictions pp. 1705-1712

Remy Oddou

A demand‐induced overtreatment model with heterogeneous experts pp. 1713-1733

Bertrand Crettez, Regis Deloche and Marie‐Hélène Jeanneret‐Crettez

Volume 22, issue 4, 2020

Introduction to the thematic issue on government‐provided services pp. 839-844

Rabah Amir, Helmuth Cremer and Rim Lahmandi‐Ayed

A model of the optimal allocation of government expenditures pp. 845-876

Simon Fan, Yu Pang and Pierre Pestieau

Resource‐driven victory pp. 877-898

Mahsa Jahandideh

Nursing home choice, family bargaining, and optimal policy in a Hotelling economy pp. 899-932

Marie-Louise Leroux and Gregory Ponthiere

On the value of Medicaid in providing access to long‐term care pp. 933-948

Markus Rieger-Fels

Estate recovery and long‐term care insurance pp. 949-972

Christophe Courbage and Guillem Montoliu‐Montes

Why is free education so popular? A political economy explanation pp. 973-991

Juan Correa, Yijia Lu, Francisco Parro and Mauricio Villena

Human capital investment, credentialing, and wage differentials pp. 992-1016

Masashi Tanaka

University‐firm competition in basic research and university funding policy pp. 1017-1040

Rune Stenbacka and Mihkel Tombak

Pricing schemes and market efficiency in private retirement systems pp. 1041-1068

Sam Flanders, Melati Nungsari and Marcela Parada‐Contzen

Is an unfunded social security system good or bad for growth? A theoretical analysis of social security systems financed by VAT pp. 1069-1104

Noritaka Maebayashi

Contingent wage subsidy pp. 1105-1119

Robertas Zubrickas

Saving the public from the private? Incentives and outcomes in dual practice pp. 1120-1150

Michael Kuhn and Robert Nuscheler

Supply function competition in a mixed electric power market pp. 1151-1175

Marc Escrihuela‐Villar, Carlos Gutiérrez‐Hita and José Vicente‐Pérez

Volume 22, issue 3, 2020

Contribution to a public good under subjective uncertainty pp. 473-500

Anwesha Banerjee and Nicolas Gravel

Wage endogeneity, tax evasion, and optimal nonlinear income taxation pp. 501-531

Firouz Gahvari and Luca Micheletto

Redistributive innovation policy, inequality, and efficiency pp. 532-554

Parantap Basu and Yoseph Getachew

Public good agreements under the weakest‐link technology pp. 555-582

Alejandro Caparrós and Michael Finus

Trust, ability‐to‐pay, and charitable giving pp. 583-629

Ida Ferrara and Paul Missios

The importance of considering optimal government policy when social norms matter for the private provision of public goods pp. 630-655

Guy Meunier and Ingmar Schumacher

Dynamic coordination with timing frictions: Theory and applications pp. 656-697

Bernardo Guimaraes, Caio Machado and Ana E. Pereira

Subsidy competition and imperfect labor markets pp. 698-728

Tadashi Morita, Yukiko Sawada and Kazuhiro Yamamoto

Competition, patent protection, and innovation with heterogeneous firms in an endogenous market structure pp. 729-750

Keishun Suzuki

International capital market and repeated tax competition pp. 751-768

Satoshi Kasamatsu and Hikaru Ogawa

Private investment with social benefits under uncertainty: The dark side of public financing pp. 769-820

Giuseppe Attanasi, Kene Boun My, Marco Buso and Anne Stenger

Can everyone benefit from economic integration? pp. 821-833

Christopher Chambers and Takashi Hayashi

Volume 22, issue 2, 2020

An introduction to the second special issue commemorating works of James Andreoni, Theodore Bergstrom, Larry Blume, and Hal Varian pp. 279-284

Olivier Bochet, Nikos Nikiforakis, Ernesto Reuben, John Wooders and Myrna Wooders

Bergstrom, Blume, and Varian: Voluntary contributions and neutrality pp. 285-301

Marta Faias, Emma Moreno‐García and Gareth D. Myles

Bargaining foundation for ratio equilibrium in public‐good economies pp. 302-319

Anne van den Nouweland and Agnieszka Rusinowska

Charitable asymmetric bidders pp. 320-337

Olivier Bos

Global public goods and unilateral matching mechanisms pp. 338-354

Wolfgang Buchholz and Weifeng Liu

Efficiency and stability of sampling equilibrium in public goods games pp. 355-370

César Mantilla, Rajiv Sethi and Juan-Camilo Cardenas

Warm glow and the transmission of pro‐socialness across generations pp. 371-387

Ngo Long

Cooperation in a risky world pp. 388-407

Vincent Théroude and Adam Zylbersztejn

The impact of peer ratings on cooperation: The role of information and cost of rating pp. 408-432

Marco Faillo, Daniela Grieco and Luca Zarri

The effect of religion on Muslims’ charitable contributions to members of a non‐Muslim majority pp. 433-448

Rebecca Morton, Kai Ou and Xiangdong Qin

Principles versus principal: Reconciling norm compliance and shareholder value pp. 449-467

Bernard Sinclair‐Desgagné

Volume 22, issue 1, 2020

Attending to inattention: Identification of deadweight loss under nonsalient taxes pp. 5-24

Giacomo Brusco and Benjamin Glass

Tying the politicians’ hands: The optimal limits to representative democracy pp. 25-48

Didier Laussel and Ngo Long

Regulation and altruism pp. 49-68

Izabela Jelovac and Samuel Kembou Nzale

The evasion of fiscal and labor regulations: Firm behavior and optimal tax policy pp. 69-97

Katherine Cuff, Steeve Mongrain and Joanne Roberts

When the light shines too much: Rational inattention and pandering pp. 98-145

Federico Trombetta

Distributive politics of public goods networks through multistage voting pp. 146-169

Kengo Kurosaka

Group identification with (incomplete) preferences pp. 170-189

Wonki Cho and Alejandro Saporiti

Fiscal rules in a monetary economy: Implications for growth and welfare pp. 190-219

Tetsuo Ono

Choosing the agent's group identity in a trust game with delegated decision making pp. 220-244

Alexander Zimper and Nicky Nicholls

Valuations and dynamics of negotiations pp. 245-273

Armando Gomes