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. e1

Catherine Roween Almaden

Meso-institutions: why we need them (introduction to the symposium on meso-institutions) pp. e10

Claude Menard

The migration–inequality debate: a reassessment through rent-seeking theory pp. e11

Francois Facchini, Louis Jaeck and Hajer Kratou

Incentives and taxation in Rawls’s institutional theory of justice pp. e12

Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay

Rules and temptations: which came first? – ERRATUM pp. e13

Elias L. Khalil

Institutional conflicts of interest: a novel functionalist account pp. e14

Armin W. Schulz

AI adoption in bureaucracies pp. e15

Luca Pieroni and Melcior Rossello Roig

The corporation from the Middle Ages to intellectual monopoly capitalism pp. e16

Ugo Pagano

Democracy, epistocracy, and hybrid decision-making: information specificity and costs of political governance pp. e17

Alexandre Chirat and Cyril Hédoin

Losers and winners: what people think about contested-commodity transactions pp. e18

Johanna Jauernig and Samuel Brea Martínez-Collado

Empires, gender attitudes, and tolerance: evidence from Romania pp. e19

Elena Nikolova and Aurelian-Petruş Plopeanu

The past, present, and future of polycentric legal order: a comparative institutional analysis of lex mercatoria and blockchain pp. e2

Ilia Murtazashvili, Ali Palida and Michael J. Madison

Trust in government, institutional quality and the perception of water services pp. e20

Ivano Dileo, Marco De Simone and Elisabetta Marzano

Beyond ‘permissionless’: governance, commitment, and rule change in public blockchains pp. e21

Craig Steven Wright

Integrity as a bonding mechanism in agency theory pp. e22

Sinclair Davidson

Does centralisation clean up? quasi-experimental evidence from China’s environmental reforms pp. e23

Jianxian Wu

Beyond versus: the institutional coevolution of the firm and the corporation pp. e24

Kazuhiro S. Taniguchi

Opportunism and the limits of blockchain as urban land governance: a comparative transaction-cost analysis pp. e25

Godwin Kavaarpuo, Prince Donkor Ameyaw, Barikisa Owusu Ansah and Elijah Asante Boakye

The dynamics of anti-corruption: a multi-level framework for intervention design pp. e26

Balikees Rotinwa-Oseni, Thorsten Chmura, Ludovica Orlandi and Lerato Dixon

Beyond the ballot box: linking political constraints and citizens’ happiness pp. e27

Hermann Ndoya and Melissa Atangana

Explaining alliance network in banking industry using isomorphism and tie strength theories pp. e28

Payam Hanafizadeh, Maryam Khalilzadeh Salmasi and Soroush Ghazinoori

Strategic repugnance: how narratives reshape moral constraints in markets pp. e29

Gilles Grolleau, Alain Marciano and Naoufel Mzoughi

Sludge, transaction benefits, and cognitive institutions pp. e3

Daniil Frolov

Governing internet address resources: Regional Internet Registries and the resilience of a polycentric system pp. e30

Dominique Lazanski and Ilia Murtazashvili

How informal exchange persists under strong institutions: a triadic model of informal governance pp. e31

Floris Noordhoff

Verified pseudonymity as governance technology: decentralized identity, soulbound tokens, and online discourse pp. e32

Christos A. Makridis

Moral dissonance and judicial dynamics: a differential model of normative misalignment pp. e33

Massimiliano Marletta

Seeds of institutional change: the biopiracy of Brazilian rubber pp. e34

Giampaolo Garzarelli, Lyndal Keeton and Aldo Alfredo Sitoe

A transaction cost theory of constitutional change pp. e35

Andrew T. Young

The green social contract among firms, institutions, and community pp. e36

Rocco Caferra, Jordi Ripollés and Gabriele Tedeschi

Institutional stickiness through subsidiarity: Germany’s childcare guarantee pp. e37

Anna Claire Flowers

The globally embedded limited access order: foreign capital, transnational law, and mining rents in Mongolia pp. e38

Tomasz Legiedz

State-seeking nationalism: the emergence of small nations in multiethnic empires pp. e39

Lucie Mařanová and Marek Hudik

Property versus possession, ten years on: assessing the lexical impact of the 2015 JOIE debate pp. e4

Antoine Pietri

Do populists erode civil society? pp. e40

Ege Asutay, Niclas Berggren and Christian Bjørnskov

The cultural architecture of failure: reintegration, stigma, and the long-run conditions of entrepreneurial dynamism pp. e41

Gurpreet Chatwal

Presidential discretion under the Antiquities Act pp. e42

Jordan K. Lofthouse

Governing hybrid schools: polycentricity and institutional change in American education policy pp. e43

Eric Wearne

Institutional stickiness through subsidiarity: Germany’s childcare guarantee – CORRIGENDUM pp. e44

Anna Claire Flowers

How to build inclusive institutions: collective governance in global history pp. e45

Federica Carugati and Riley Wong

Governing firms without domination: the epistemic stakes of organizational design pp. e46

Sean Irving

‘This is our legacy’: youth exposure to repression and trust in institutions pp. e47

Mathieu Bourret Soto

From abroad to the ballot: remittances and political institutions pp. e48

Antonis Adam and Sofia Tsarsitalidou

The role of adjudication procedures in judicial timeliness: quasi-experimental evidence pp. e49

Alessandro Melcarne, Giovanni Battista Ramello and Paige Marta Skiba

Social debt and the quasi-contract: the solidarism of Léon Bourgeois as a form of liberal solidarity pp. e5

Virgile Chassagnon, Benjamin Chapas and Naciba Haned

Actions, routines, and the common pool of opportunities: Defining the institutional environment pp. e50

Konrad Werner and Łukasz Hardt

The political nature of the firm: corporate statecraft and the private production of institutional order in four American cases pp. e51

Marco Mari

Video games as relational institutions: emotions, rules, and digital environments pp. e52

Emmanuel Petit

Institutional change and persistence: what does the long-run evidence tell us? pp. e53

Antonio Savoia, Kunal Sen and Abrams Mbu Tagem

Ostrom, commitment & unobserved compliance pp. e54

Craig Duckworth

Culture or context? Institutional trust across and within regions pp. e55

Fabian Kuhn

Education and generalized trust: a test of two mechanisms pp. e6

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. e7

Lynne Kiesling

Institutional trust and the confiscation of real estate assets from organised crime pp. e8

Damiano Fiorillo, Michele Mosca and Luca Pennacchio

Rules and temptations: which came first? pp. e9

Elias L. Khalil