Journal of Institutional Economics

2005 - 2025

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Volume 16, month December, 2020

Economic cognitive institutions pp. 747-765

Enrico Petracca and Shaun Gallagher

The evolution of the Offshore US-Dollar System: past, present and four possible futures pp. 767-783

Steffen Murau, Joe Rini and Armin Haas

Cultural roots of family ties pp. 785-808

Lewis S. Davis and Claudia R. Williamson

Trust and R&D investments: evidence from OECD countries pp. 809-830

Gideon Ndubuisi

The role of collective action for the emergence and consolidation of democracy pp. 831-862

Paolo Li Donni and Maria Marino

Spectrum anarchy: why self-governance of the radio spectrum works better than we think pp. 863-882

Pedro Bustamante, Marcela Gomez, Ilia Murtazashvili and Martin Weiss

Political instability, institutional change and economic growth in Brazil since 1870 pp. 883-910

Nauro Campos, Menelaos Karanasos, Panagiotis Koutroumpis and Zihui Zhang

The relative importance of regional institutions and external finance for small business investment: evidence from Vietnam pp. 911-929

Bach Nguyen

Financial globalization and institutions in Africa: the case of foreign direct investment, central bank independence and political institutions pp. 931-953

Abel Mawuko Agoba, Elikplimi Agbloyor, Afua Agyapomaa Gyeke-Dako and Mac-Clara Acquah

Volume 16, month October, 2020

Conceptualizing the business corporation: insights from history pp. 569-577

David Gindis

Medieval corporations, membership and the common good: rethinking the critique of shareholder primacy pp. 579-595

Samuel F. Mansell and Alejo José G. Sison

Ernst Freund as precursor of the rational study of corporate law pp. 597-621

David Gindis

The Anglo-American misconception of stockholders as ‘owners’ and ‘members’: its origins and consequences pp. 623-642

David Ciepley

A new understanding of the history of limited liability: an invitation for theoretical reframing pp. 643-664

Ron Harris

Institutional analysis and the gift: an introduction to the symposium pp. 665-674

Stefan Kesting, Ioana Negru and Paolo Silvestri

Defining the gift pp. 675-685

Dave Elder-Vass

Mauss's The Gift, or the necessity of an institutional perspective in economics pp. 687-701

Mario Cedrini, Angela Ambrosino, Roberto Marchionatti and Alain Caillé

Gifts as governance: Church Welfare and the Samaritan's dilemma pp. 703-714

Nathan P. Goodman and Roberta Q. Herzberg

The stakeholder-empowering philanthropy of Edward Filene pp. 715-729

Keith Taylor and Nathan P. Goodman

Money or in-kind gift? Evidence from red packets in China pp. 731-746

Marek Hudik and Eddy S. Fang

Volume 16, month August, 2020

Qualitative research methods for institutional analysis pp. 409-422

David Skarbek

Economics is not statistics (and vice versa) pp. 423-425

Peter Leeson

Please, open the windows! pp. 427-428

Claude Menard

How should economists analyze institutions? Comments on David Skarbek, ‘Qualitative research methods for institutional analysis’ pp. 429-431

Mary M. Shirley

Is Bitcoin a decentralized payment mechanism? pp. 433-444

William Luther and Sean Stein Smith

Traditional law in times of the nation state: why is it so prevalent? pp. 445-461

Jerg Gutmann and Stefan Voigt

In-transit cold treatment: a case of institutional path dependence pp. 463-479

Pasquale Lubello and Jean-Marie Codron

The joint impact of infrastructure and institutions on economic growth pp. 481-502

Yitagesu Zewdu Zergawu, Yabibal Walle and José-Manuel Giménez-Gómez

Calling the cavalry: firm-level investment in the face of decentralized expropriation pp. 503-518

Israel Marques, Irina Levina, Anton Kazun and Andrei Yakovlev

Digital protectionism and national planning in the age of the internet: the case of Iran pp. 519-536

Altuğ Yalçıntaş and Naseraddin Alizadeh

Collaborative innovation blocs and antifragility pp. 537-552

Niklas Elert and Magnus Henrekson

Economics is whatever the comparative advantage of economists is: a comment on Leeson (2020) pp. 553-556

Ryan H. Murphy

Carl Menger: Contribution to the Theory of Capital (1888), Section V pp. 557-568

Eduard Braun

Volume 16, month June, 2020

The impact of experience on how we perceive the rule of law pp. 251-269

Benito Arruñada

Contingencies in the relationship between economic freedom and human development: the role of generalized trust pp. 271-286

Johan Graafland

Is confidence in major companies rooted in generalized social trust, or regulatory quality, or both? pp. 287-303

Markus Leibrecht and Hans Pitlik

The religious origins of the rule of law pp. 305-318

Peter J. Hill

The origins of Buchanan's views on federalism, Chicago 1946–1947 pp. 319-335

Alain Marciano

Reassessing the dependence of capitalism on democracy – the case of Imperial Germany and the Weimar Republic pp. 337-354

Gerhard Wegner

Fighting on Christmas: brawling as self-governance in rural Peru pp. 355-368

Edwar E. Escalante and Raymond J. March

Give us a little social credit: to design or to discover personal ratings in the era of Big Data pp. 369-387

Abigail Devereaux and Linan Peng

The political economy of (de)regulation: theory and evidence from the US electricity industry pp. 389-408

Carmine Guerriero

Volume 16, month April, 2020

The Art and Science of Economic Explanation: Introduction to the Special Issue in Honor of Yoram Barzel pp. 119-126

Rosolino A. Candela and Ennio Emanuele Piano

Rationing by racing and the Oklahoma land rushes pp. 127-144

Douglas W. Allen and Bryan Leonard

Logic is a harsh mistress: welfare economics for economists pp. 145-150

Peter Leeson

The politics of land property rights pp. 151-167

Meina Cai, Ilia Murtazashvili and Jennifer Murtazashvili

Desertion as theft pp. 169-183

Ennio Emanuele Piano and Louis Rouanet

Property, predation and socialist reality pp. 185-197

Peter Boettke

Property rights and domestication pp. 199-215

Dean Lueck and Gustavo Torrens

Is there a limit to the size of the state? The scope conditions of Wagner's law pp. 217-232

Steven M. Karceski and Edgar Kiser

The political economy of insecure property rights: insights from the Kingdom of Sicily pp. 233-249

Rosolino A. Candela

Volume 16, month February, 2020

Hayekian welfare states: explaining the coexistence of economic freedom and big government pp. 1-12

Andreas Bergh

Elite collective agency and the state pp. 13-24

Korkut Alp Ertürk

What do we call money? An appraisal of the money or non-money view pp. 25-40

Cristian Frasser and Gabriel Guzmán

Introduction to the Kornai 90 Symposium pp. 41-47

Dora Piroska and Miklós Rosta

Agricultural soft budget constraints in new European Union member states pp. 49-64

Imre Fertő, Štefan Bojnec, József Fogarasi and Ants-Hannes Viira

Horizontal “checks and balances” in the socialist regime: the party chief and mayor template pp. 65-82

Yang Zhou

Institutional transformation and development from an economic transition perspective: the case of Argentina pp. 83-104

Áron Perényi, Alexis Esposto and Jill Bamforth

Re-feudalizing democracy: an approach to authoritarian populism taken from institutional economics pp. 105-118

Zoltán Ádám