Journal of Institutional Economics

2005 - 2025

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Volume 21, month January, 2025

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

Geoffrey Hodgson

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

Vanessa Casadella and Sofiane Tahi

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

Carolina Cañibano, Peter Earl and Félix-Fernando Muñoz

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

Volume 20, month January, 2024

Institutional resilience: how the formal legal system sustains informal cooperation pp. -

Clemens Buchen

Determinants of social norms II – religion and family as mediators pp. -

Stefan Voigt

Ancestral institutions and the salience of African ethnicity: Theory and Evidence pp. -

Abreham Adera

The institutional environment and gig platform transaction cost solutions pp. -

Svetlana Golovanova, Eduardo Ribeiro, Evgeny Styrin and Ivan Makarov

A needs theory of governance: taking transaction cost theory back to humanistic economics and self-actualisation pp. -

Silvia Sacchetti and Ermanno Tortia

Legitimacy of government and governance pp. -

Imran Arif and Nabamita Dutta

Yoram Barzel: commemorating the life of an institutional economist pp. -

Douglas W. Allen

Mapping inflation to economic freedom in the post-COVID era pp. -

Ryan H. Murphy

Individualism, universalism and climate change pp. -

Elodie Douarin and Tim Hinks

History and cultural evolution: measuring the relationship through the Wikipedia network pp. -

Matthew J. Histen

Hayek's extended mind: on the (im)possibility of Austrian behavioural economics pp. -

Erwin Dekker and Blaž Remic

Shock me like a Hurricane: how Hurricane Katrina changed Louisiana's formal and informal institutions pp. -

Veeshan Rayamajhee, Raymond J. March and Corbin C. T. Clark

The economic institutions of artificial intelligence pp. -

Sinclair Davidson

The evolution of economies, technologies, and other institutions: exploring W. Brian Arthur's insights pp. -

Thibault Schrepel

Worker takeovers: a comparative analysis of employee buyouts, other worker-managed firms, and conventional firms in Uruguay pp. -

Andrés Dean

The Ostroms on self-governance: the importance of cybernetics pp. -

Paul Lewis and Paul Dragos Aligica

The political economy of foreign fighter death in the Russo-Ukrainian War: the role of institutions, politics, and international trade pp. -

Franklin Mixon and Richard Cebula

Divergence before the division: the colonial origins of separate development paths in Korea – ADDENDUM pp. -

Martin Andersson, Montserrat López Jerez and Luka Miladinovic

Economic freedom and academic freedom across nations pp. -

Niclas Berggren and Christian Bjørnskov

Environmental enforcement, property rights, and violence: evidence from the Brazilian Amazon pp. -

Gustavo Magalhães de Oliveira and Bruno Varella Miranda

The economics of cognitive institutions: mapping debates, looking ahead pp. -

Daniil Frolov

The role of political institutions in the Eurozone's economic convergence process pp. -

Laura Lopez-Gomez

Shocking resilience? Effects of extreme events on constitutional compliance pp. -

Abishek Choutagunta, Jerg Gutmann and Stefan Voigt

The Black Mouth Society and governance on the Great Plains pp. -

Jordan K. Lofthouse and Christopher J. Coyne

Legal pluralism, ideology, and institutional change: the evolution of institutions for coastal resource governance in Ghana pp. -

Hudu Banikoi

Community and informal institutions in reforms under crises: the odyssey of a 350-year-old functionally credible water commons pp. -

Paschalis Arvanitidis and George Papagiannitsis

Do religious beliefs matter for economic values? pp. -

Lewis Davis and Zachary Rodriguez

Watch out for words: the wording of constitutions and constitutional compliance pp. -

Jacek Lewkowicz, Jan Fałkowski, Zimin Luo and Olga Marut

Understanding the roles of meso-institutions: a comparative approach to urban water provision in seven Asian cities pp. -

O. Jensen and C. Ménard

Walter Lippmann: an institutionalist for our times? pp. -

Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap and Paul Lewis

Polycentric governance in collusive agreements pp. -

Wolfgang Schmal

Comparing Ostrom's design principles to Habraken's open-building framework: disentangling a polycentric built environment pp. -

John B. Horowitz

Global economic freedom during the second year of the pandemic pp. -

Vincent J. Miozzi and Benjamin Powell

Institutions and development in a fragile limited access order of late-medieval Lithuania pp. -

Mantas Bureika

The paradox of effective altruism pp. -

Tomasz Kopczewski and Iana Okhrimenko

Do public-sector employment reductions promote the informal economy? pp. -

Antonis Adam and Thomas Moutos

The role of culture as an informal institution in cross-border venture capital investments pp. -

Daniel Mahn, Carlos Poblete, Cong Wang and Chris Heaton

Determinants of social norms I – the role of geography pp. -

Stefan Voigt

Location choice and Indian outward foreign direct investment: institutional thresholds and differentiating between institutional quality and institutional distance pp. -

Rishika Nayyar and John M. Luiz

Remittance dependence, support for taxation and quality of public services in Africa pp. -

Maty Konte and Gideon Ndubuisi

The relationship between institutional quality, trust and private savings pp. -

François Facchini, Sophie Massin and Kevin Brookes

Volume 19, month December, 2023

Toward an economic theory of customary measurement pp. 709-728

Glen Whitman

Corporate hierarchies and workplace voice pp. 729-746

Filippo Belloc, Gabriel Burdin and Fabio Landini

To what extent do institutional arrangements shape the excludability of resource systems? Lessons from French farms pp. 747-763

Grâce Kassis

Political regimes and firms' decisions to pay bribes: theory and evidence from firm-level surveys pp. 764-786

Shuichiro Nishioka, Sumi Sharma and Tuan Viet Le

Exchanges with and without the sword: slavery, politics-as-exchange and freedom in James M. Buchanan's institutional economics pp. 787-801

John Meadowcroft

Divergence before the division: the colonial origins of separate development paths in Korea pp. 802-819

Martin Andersson, Montserrat López Jerez and Luka Miladinovic

Choice of slavery institutions in Ancient Greece: Athenian chattels and Spartan helots pp. 820-836

George Tridimas

The limits of generality for constitutional design pp. 837-851

Andrew T. Young

Elinor Ostrom on choice, collective action and rationality: a Senian analysis pp. 852-867

Paul Lewis and Matias Petersen

Institutions and industry-level employment creation: an empirical analysis of the US metro-level data pp. 868-892

Imran Arif

Repugnance and institutions: an introductory essay pp. 893-902

Marie Daou and Alain Marciano

Managing repugnance: how core-stigma shapes firm behavior pp. 903-917

Erwin Dekker and Julien Gradoz

Repugnant innovation pp. 918-929

Darcy W. E. Allen, Chris Berg and Sinclair Davidson

Economic analyses of repugnant market transactions: a modest typology pp. 930-943

Péter Cserne

Markets, repugnance, and externalities pp. 944-955

Kimberly D. Krawiec

Repugnance, externalities and subjectivism: a comment on Krawiec pp. 956-960

Marie Daou and Alain Marciano

Volume 19, month October, 2023

The German historical school on monetary calculation and the feasibility of socialism pp. 579-597

Eduard Braun

Impact of bridging social capital on the tragedy of the commons: experimental evidence pp. 598-617

Karolina Safarzynska and Marta Sylwestrzak

Measuring open access orders pp. 618-634

Ryan H. Murphy

‘It was organized from the bottom’: the response from community-based institutions during the 2014 Ebola epidemic pp. 635-650

Sabine Iva Franklin

Introduction to the symposium on the shadow economy, tax behaviour, and institutions pp. 651-655

Catalina Granda-Carvajal and Christoph Kogler

Formal and informal institutions: understanding the shadow economy in transition countries pp. 656-672

Klarita Gërxhani and Stanisław Cichocki

Two sides of the coin: exploring the duality of corruption in Latin America pp. 673-687

Ella Hugo, David Savage, Friedrich Schneider and Benno Torgler

Role of social aversion in the motivations for tax law compliance pp. 688-706

Karnit Malka Tiv

Liberal egalitarian justice in the distribution of a common output. Experimental evidence and implications for effective institution design – ERRATUM pp. 707-707

Giacomo Degli Antoni, Marco Faillo, Pedro Francés-Gómez and Lorenzo Sacconi

Volume 19, month August, 2023

Legal systems and stock market efficiency: an empirical analysis of stock indices around the world pp. 459-477

Natalia Diniz-Maganini, Abdul A. Rasheed and Mahmut Yasar

Integrating the exploration-exploitation dilemma and bad institutions to the Austrian theory of destructive entrepreneurship: a new perspective pp. 478-493

Thierry Aimar

Geographical indications as global knowledge commons: Ostrom's law on common intellectual property and collective action pp. 494-510

Armelle Mazé

Foreigner kings as local kingmakers: how the ‘unusual’ marginalization of conservative political groups occurred in pre-Industrial Revolution Britain pp. 511-525

Makio Yamada

Frontier academic research in OECD countries: the role of institutional factors pp. 526-547

Thanh Le, Ngoc Vu Bich and Sau Mai

Rule of law as a determinant of the export performance of Italian provinces pp. 548-563

Dario D'Ingiullo, Claudio Di Berardino, Iacopo Odoardi and Davide Quaglione

The effect of corruption control on efficiency spillovers pp. 564-578

Levent Kutlu and Xi Mao

Volume 19, month June, 2023

The origins of fiscal states in developing economies: history, politics and institutions pp. 303-313

Antonio Savoia and Kunal Sen

Constraints on the executive and tax revenues in the long run pp. 314-331

Antonio Savoia, Kunal Sen and Abrams M. E. Tagem

Institutions and tax capacity in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 332-347

Abrams Mbu Enow Tagem and Oliver Morrissey

Conceptualizing the fiscal state: implications for sub-Saharan Africa pp. 348-363

Matilde Jeppesen, Ane Karoline Bak and Anne Mette Kjær

Fiscal capacity in non-democratic states: the origins and expansion of the income tax pp. 364-378

Per F. Andersson

Pre-colonial centralization and tax compliance norms in contemporary Uganda pp. 379-400

Merima Ali and Odd Fjeldstad

Problematizing state capacity: the Rwandan case pp. 401-425

Leander Heldring and James A. Robinson

No taxation without informational foundation: on the role of legibility in tax state development pp. 426-443

Matthias vom Hau, José Alejandro Peres-Cajías and Hillel David Soifer

No taxation without state-assigned property rights: formalization of individual property rights on land and taxation in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 444-457

Marina Nistotskaya and Michelle D'Arcy

Volume 19, month April, 2023

Russia as a great power: from 1815 to the present day Part II pp. 159-174

Michael Ellman

Post-Northian institutional economics: a research agenda for cognitive institutions pp. 175-191

Daniil Frolov

On the adapting function of social institutions pp. 192-209

Alexander Lascaux

Does democracy cause gender equality? pp. 210-228

Thomas Barnebeck Andersen

Measuring economic freedom during the Covid-19 pandemic pp. 229-250

Vincent J. Miozzi and Benjamin Powell

The primacy of property; or, the subordination of property rights pp. 251-267

Bart Wilson

Why is there property? A response to Professor Wilson pp. 268-271

Richard Adelstein

On the primacy of economic property rights pp. 272-275

Douglas W. Allen

Ownership or possession? On Bart Wilson's concept of ownership pp. 276-279

Frank Decker

Property rights rule: comments on Bart Wilson's ‘The primacy of property; Or, the subordination of property rights’ pp. 280-284

Ilia Murtazashvili

Where lies the bundle of sticks? A comment on Bart Wilson's ‘The Primacy of Property’ pp. 285-287

Walter Thurman

Property rights aren't primary; ideas are pp. 288-301

Bart Wilson

Volume 19, month February, 2023

Russia as a great power: from 1815 to the present day Part 1 pp. 1-17

Michael Ellman

Disruptive innovation in the economic organization of China and the West pp. 18-35

Hilton Root

Constitutional catallaxy and indigenous rights: the Australian case pp. 36-51

Mikayla Novak

Cascading expert failure pp. 52-69

Jon Murphy

The dynamic efficiency of gifting pp. 70-85

Anthony Gill and Michael D. Thomas

The authors of economics journals revisited: evidence from a large-scale replication of Hodgson and Rothman (1999) pp. 86-101

Matthias Aistleitner, Jakob Kapeller and Dominik Kronberger

Environmental economics in Classical Athens pp. 102-118

Emmanouil M. L. Economou, George Halkos and Nicholas C. Kyriazis

The impact of economic institutions on government policy: does contract-intensive economy promote impartial governance? pp. 119-136

Demet Yalcin Mousseau

Do partisan politics influence domestic credit? pp. 137-158

Vincent Tawiah, Sivathaasan Nadarajah, Md Samsul Alam and Tom Allen