Journal of Institutional Economics

2005 - 2025

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Volume 17, month December, 2021

Introduction to the special issue on the Centenary of Frank H. Knight's Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit pp. 877-881

Per Bylund

Uncertainty and the social organization of economic activity pp. 883-895

Ross Emmett

Knightian uncertainty in non-market institutional settings: the case of democracy and nonprofit civil society pp. 897-911

Scott Burns, G. P. Manish and Malavika Nair

Institutions, uncertainty, and entrepreneurial judgment pp. 913-923

Claus Wiemann Frølund

Frank Knight and the cognitive diversity of entrepreneurship pp. 925-942

Malte Dold and Mario J. Rizzo

Let's do it Frank's way: general principles and historical specificity in the study of entrepreneurship pp. 943-958

Marek Hudik and Per Bylund

Bet against yourself: integrating insurance and entrepreneurship pp. 959-972

Marian Eabrasu

The legacy of Frank H. Knight for the politics of financial governance pp. 973-987

Chris Clarke

Knight, financial institutions, and entrepreneurship in developing economies pp. 989-1003

Joyce K. Nabisaalu and Per Bylund

Frank Knight, uncertainty and knowledge spillover entrepreneurship pp. 1005-1031

David B. Audretsch and Maksim Belitski

The common sense of economics and divergent approaches in economic thought: a view from Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit pp. 1033-1047

Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino A. Candela

Monopoly as a ‘culture-history fact’: Knight, Menger, and the role of institutions pp. 1049-1064

Joseph T. Salerno, Carmen Elena Dorobat and Matthew McCaffrey

Volume 17, month October, 2021

Beyond behaviorism, positivism, and neo-institutionalism in economics: a conversation with Deirdre Nansen McCloskey pp. 717-728

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey and Paolo Silvestri

Response to governmental COVID-19 restrictions: the role of informal institutions pp. 729-745

Katarzyna Bentkowska

The business model as a generative replicator pp. 746-763

Olivier Brette and Virgile Chassagnon

De jure property rights and state capacity: evidence from land specification in the Boer Republics pp. 764-780

Kara Dimitruk, Sophia Du Plessis and Stan Du Plessis

Theory in closer contact with industrial life: American institutional economists on competition theory and policy pp. 781-798

Matthew T. Panhans and Reinhard Schumacher

Are polarized courts dangerous for litigation? Evidence from French labor courts pp. 799-820

Umberto Nizza

The evolution of the football jersey – an institutional perspective pp. 821-835

David Butler and Robert Butler

Regional financial disparity in India: can it be measured? pp. 836-860

Rashmi U. Arora and P. B. Anand

What is a firm? A reply to Jean-Philippe Robé pp. 861-871

Simon Deakin, David Gindis and Geoffrey Hodgson

Volume 17, month August, 2021

Employment preservation and textile regulation in early modern England, 1550–1640 pp. 529-543

John H. Gendron

Uncertainty and dispute resolution for blockchain and smart contract institutions pp. 545-559

Bronwyn E. Howell and Petrus H. Potgieter

Differences in African banking systems: causes and consequences pp. 561-581

Samuel Mutarindwa, Dorothea Schäfer and Andreas Stephan

Financial constraint, trust, and export performances: firm-level evidence from Africa pp. 583-605

Maty Konte and Gideon Ndubuisi

Corruption and SME growth: the roles of institutional networking and financial slack pp. 607-624

Samuel Adomako, Mujtaba Ahsan, Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, Albert Danso, Kwabena Kesse and Kwabena Frimpong

Habraken, Jacobs, and Ostrom on governing the built environment: the case of common interest developments pp. 625-640

John B. Horowitz

Institutional quality and the capital structure of microfinance institutions: the moderating role of board gender diversity pp. 641-661

Michael Adusei and Beatrice Sarpong-Danquah

Laissez les bons temps rouler? The persistent effect French civil law has on corruption, institutions, and incomes in Louisiana pp. 663-680

Justin T. Callais

A case study of bureaucratic discretion: heterogeneous application of market entry regulation in Germany pp. 681-700

Petrik Runst

Institutional incentives and community policing pp. 701-715

Tate Fegley

Volume 17, month June, 2021

Coevolving institutions and the paradox of informal constraints pp. 359-378

Daniel Seligson and Anne E. C. McCants

Contractarian ideology and the legitimacy of government pp. 379-391

Randall Holcombe

Accidental socialism: a natural experiment in Haiti 1796–1820 pp. 393-409

Mario Ferrero

Who are the champions? Inequality, economic freedom and the Olympics pp. 411-427

Vadim Kufenko and Vincent Geloso

Financial institutions and the British Industrial Revolution: did financial underdevelopment hold back growth? pp. 429-448

Geoffrey Hodgson

Collective action, opportunism, and class agency under ineffective state enforcement: Marx on English Factory Laws pp. 449-458

Korkut Alp Ertürk

On money as a conventional sign: revisiting Aristotle's conception of money pp. 459-471

Ricardo Crespo

The chronic uncertainty of American Indian property rights pp. 473-488

Eric Alston, Adam Crepelle, Wilson Law and Ilia Murtazashvili

Fertile soil for intrapreneurship: impartial institutions and human capital pp. 489-508

Martin Ljunge and Mikael Stenkula

Resilience to economic shrinking in an emerging economy: the role of social capabilities in Indonesia, 1950–2015 pp. 509-526

Martin Andersson, Tobias Axelsson and Andrés Palacio

Resilience to economic shrinking in an emerging economy: the role of social capabilities in Indonesia, 1950–2015 – ADDENDUM pp. 527-527

Martin Andersson, T. Axelsson and A. Palacio

Volume 17, month April, 2021

Thinking carefully about inclusiveness: evidence from European guilds pp. 185-200

Sheilagh Ogilvie

A machine-learning history of English caselaw and legal ideas prior to the Industrial Revolution II: applications pp. 201-216

Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell

Legal origins, religion and health outcomes: a cross-country comparison of organ donation laws pp. 217-226

Guillem Riambau, Clin Lai, Boyu Lu Zhao and Jean Liu

The change in social norms in the Mafia's territories: the anti-racket movement of Addiopizzo pp. 227-242

Francesca Lipari and Giulia Andrighetto

The corruption–growth relationship: does the political regime matter? pp. 243-266

Shrabani Saha and Kunal Sen

Possession is Nine-Tenths of the Law: possession, property, and coordination in a Hawk–Dove Experiment pp. 267-288

Marco Fabbri, Matteo Rizzolli and Antonello Maruotti

Economic freedom and antisemitism pp. 289-304

Niclas Berggren and Therese Nilsson

A novel institution: the Zollverein and the origins of the customs union pp. 305-319

Florian Ploeckl

The last guardian of the throne: the regional army in the late Qing dynasty pp. 321-337

Linan Peng

Beyond state capacity: bureaucratic performance, policy implementation and reform pp. 339-357

Martin J. Williams

Volume 17, month February, 2021

A machine-learning history of English caselaw and legal ideas prior to the Industrial Revolution I: generating and interpreting the estimates pp. 1-19

Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell

Blockchain and institutional complexity: an extended institutional approach pp. 21-36

Daniil Frolov

The fundamental Coase of development: property rights foundations of the effective state pp. 37-52

Ennio E. Piano and Alexander W. Salter

Institutions, the social capital structure, and multilevel marketing companies pp. 53-70

Jordan K. Lofthouse and Virgil Henry Storr

The Ostroms and the contestable nature of goods: beyond taxonomies and toward institutional polycentricity pp. 71-89

Veeshan Rayamajhee and Pablo Paniagua

Institutions, social order and wealth in ancient India pp. 91-104

Jim Rooney and Vijaya Murthy

Burning the Rechtsstaat: legal institutions and protection of the rule of law pp. 105-131

Christopher Hartwell and Mateusz Urban

Multinational enterprises, political institutions, and violence: a case study from Mozambique pp. 133-151

Carlos Mairoce, Magdalene Silberberger and Joachim Zweynert

On the limits of markets pp. 153-170

Geoffrey Hodgson

If you can do it for free, there's some way to do it for money pp. 171-175

Jason Brennan and Peter Jaworski

Market dominance and endogenous decline: the contribution of historical analysis pp. 177-183

Bas J.P. Van Bavel