Journal of Institutional Economics

2005 - 2026

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Volume 22, month January, 2026

Deliberative preferences for collective adaptation: evidence from the Philippines and Viet Nam pp. -

Catherine Roween Almaden

Meso-institutions: why we need them (introduction to the symposium on meso-institutions) pp. -

Claude Menard

The migration–inequality debate: a reassessment through rent-seeking theory pp. -

Francois Facchini, Louis Jaeck and Hajer Kratou

The past, present, and future of polycentric legal order: a comparative institutional analysis of lex mercatoria and blockchain pp. -

Ilia Murtazashvili, Ali Palida and Michael J. Madison

Sludge, transaction benefits, and cognitive institutions pp. -

Daniil Frolov

Property versus possession, ten years on: assessing the lexical impact of the 2015 JOIE debate pp. -

Antoine Pietri

Social debt and the quasi-contract: the solidarism of Léon Bourgeois as a form of liberal solidarity pp. -

Virgile Chassagnon, Benjamin Chapas and Naciba Haned

Education and generalized trust: a test of two mechanisms pp. -

Francisco Herreros and Raúl López-Pérez

The promise and perils of exclusion: using institutional design principles and the theory of clubs to analyse regional transmission organization governance pp. -

Lynne Kiesling

Institutional trust and the confiscation of real estate assets from organised crime pp. -

Damiano Fiorillo, Michele Mosca and Luca Pennacchio

Rules and temptations: which came first? pp. -

Elias L. Khalil

Volume 21, month January, 2025

Formal and informal institutions: some problems of meaning, impact, and interaction pp. -

Geoffrey Hodgson

The role of reputational incentives in an international currency union: Greek monetary institutions in the classical and Hellenistic periods pp. -

Zane Allen Mullins

Governing entrepreneurial opportunities: a discriminating alignment approach pp. -

Guilherme Fowler A. Monteiro and Bruno Varella Miranda

On mechanisms of meritocratic recruitment: competence and impartiality pp. -

Palina Kolvani and Marina Nistotskaya

Transactions and legal institutionalism: part I – six leading thinkers pp. -

Geoffrey Hodgson

Transactions and legal institutionalism: part II – contracts, money, applications pp. -

Geoffrey Hodgson

The complementarity between automation and flexible labour contracts: firm-level evidence from Italy pp. -

Silvio Traverso, Massimiliano Vatiero and Enrico Zaninotto

Investigating relationships between economic freedom, growth, and development in CEE countries pp. -

Magdalena Osińska, Krzysztof Malaga and Bartłomiej Lach

Learning like a state organizational learning and state capacity in ancient Greece pp. -

Federica Carugati and Mark Pyzyk

Heterogeneous effects of economic freedom on human capital in developing countries pp. -

Issa Dianda, Patrice Rélouendé Zidouemba and Djakaria Tou

Inclusive national innovation systems: rethinking institutions in the light of inclusion imperatives pp. -

Vanessa Casadella and Sofiane Tahi

Bringing emotions into post-Northian institutional economics: a reading inspired by John Dewey pp. -

Emmanuel Petit and Jerome Ballet

Understanding Masahiko Aoki’s comparative institutional analysis pp. -

Kazuhiro S. Taniguchi

Jaurès’s The New Army (1911): the organisation of democratic institutions as war prevention pp. -

Marcel Parent, Antoine Parent, Pierre-Charles Pradier and Laurent Gauthier

Corruption and informal practices in the Middle East and North Africa: a pooled cross-sectional analysis pp. -

Ina Kubbe, Fatih Kırşanlı and Wisnu Setiadi Nugroho

‘A public economy approach to education: school choice and co-production’ revisited pp. -

Eric Wearne

Implementation of the Brazilian Forest Code: a meso-institutional approach pp. -

Gustavo Magalhães de Oliveira and Paula Sarita Bigio Schnaider

Coordinating environmental policies for biodiversity: the agri-environmental collectives in the Netherlands pp. -

Melody Splinter and Liesbeth Dries

Conceptualising knowledge governance: knowledge regimes and institutions pp. -

Wanlin Lin, Pablo Paniagua and Minjun Yuan

Economists or lawyers? Who is better at designing institutions? pp. -

Károly Mike

Unbundling institutions: the case for meso-institutions pp. -

Claude Ménard and Gaetano Martino

Countless ways to count: the functional heterogeneity of number systems pp. -

Glen Whitman

Jaurès’s The New Army (1911): the organisation of democratic institutions as war prevention – ERRATUM pp. -

Marcel Parent, Antoine Parent, Pierre-Charles Pradier and Laurent Gauthier

Enacting the future: institutions, temporal affordances, and the formation of expectations pp. -

Blaž Remic

The words that keep people apart: official language and accountability pp. -

Adelaide Baronchelli, Alessandra Foresta and Roberto Ricciuti

Individualism, institutions, and patriarchal attitudes pp. -

Lewis S. Davis and Claudia Kramer

Norms are relational: cognitive institutions, practices, and the ‘where’ question pp. -

Enrico Petracca and Shaun Gallagher

Career lessons from economists’ life stories: Brian J. Loasby as an Exemplar pp. -

Carolina Cañibano, Peter Earl and Félix-Fernando Muñoz

Does corruption deter female leadership in firms? pp. -

João Pedro Bastos and Jamie Bologna Pavlik

Elinor Ostrom, reader of Herbert A. Simon: The Sciences of the Artificial as a methodological guide ‘To deal with complexity’ pp. -

Massimo Cervesato

Banking on research: Who leads? Who follows? Who cares? pp. -

Carolina Vasconcelos, Bruno Damásio and Sandro Mendonça

What do women get from a successful revolution? pp. -

Joshua D. Ammons, Shishir Shakya and Justin T. Callais

From goat shows to guilds: How U.S. cheesemakers built a culture of collaboration pp. -

Annette C. Kendall

Theorizing polycentric governance of global socio-ecological challenges through a meso-institutional perspective pp. -

Stefano Pascucci

Interbranch organisations: meso-institutions and the coordination problem pp. -

Gaetano Martino and Bianca Polenzani

Investing in fiscal capacity: legislative debates, military pressures, and tax policy in the United Kingdom (1803–1913) pp. -

Agustín Goenaga and Oriol Sabaté

The nature of the decentralised autonomous organisation pp. -

Sinclair Davidson

Introduction to the symposium on ‘crisis and persistence: dynamics of institutional changes at the interface between formal and informal institutions’ pp. -

Elodie Douarin and Gerhard Schnyder

Towards a realistic view of consumer behaviour pp. -

Rod Sheaff

Ideas, institutions, and incompleteness pp. -

Kurtis Hingl and Marcus Shera

Towards polycentric federalism: assessing federal institutional design in multiethnic African states pp. -

Kaleb Demerew, Samson Faboye and Sampson Edodi