Journal of Institutional Economics

2005 - 2025

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Volume 12, month December, 2016

Institutional entrepreneurship, wikipedia, and the opportunity of the commons pp. 743-771

Ryan Safner

Factor endowments, the rule of law and structural inequality pp. 773-795

Daniel L. Bennett and Boris Nikolaev

Financial property rights under colonialism: some counterfactual possibilities pp. 797-824

Abhishek Chatterjee

Competitive federalism, government's dual role and the power to tax pp. 825-845

Viktor J. Vanberg

Ludwig von Mises's approach to capital as a bridge between Austrian and institutional economics pp. 847-866

Eduard Braun, Peter Lewin and Nicolas Cachanosky

Aristotle on agency, habits and institutions pp. 867-884

Ricardo Crespo

Economic freedom of North America at state borders 1 pp. 885-893

Ryan Murphy

Electoral rule choice in transitional economies pp. 895-919

Jessica Clement

The impact of regulatory accumulation on U.S. Federal District Courts pp. 921-940

Gregory Randolph and James Fetzner

Volume 12, month September, 2016

Legal personhood and the firm: avoiding anthropomorphism and equivocation pp. 499-513

David Gindis

Reputation in the Internet black market: an empirical and theoretical analysis of the Deep Web pp. 515-539

Robert Augustus Hardy and Julia R. Norgaard

Externalities as a basis for regulation: a philosophical view pp. 541-563

Rutger Claassen

Institutional complementarities, intellectual property rights and technology in the knowledge economy pp. 565-578

Erkan Gürpinar

Varieties of legal systems: towards a new global taxonomy pp. 579-602

Mathias Siems

Can foreign aid free the press? pp. 603-621

Nabamita Dutta and Claudia R. Williamson

Property rights and economic development: the legacy of Japanese colonial institutions pp. 623-650

Dongwoo Yoo and Richard Steckel

Impediments to contract enforcement in day labour markets: a perspective from India pp. 651-676

Karthikeya Naraparaju

Caste as self-regulatory club: evidence from a private banking system in nineteenth century India pp. 677-698

Malavika Nair

Max Weber and the First World War: Protestant and Catholic living standards in Germany, 1915–1919 pp. 699-719

Matthias Blum and Matthias Strebel

Institutions matter: but which institutions? And how and why do they change? pp. 721-742

Andrew Tylecote

Volume 12, month June, 2016

Market institutions and income inequality pp. 263-276

Randall Holcombe and Christopher Boudreaux

Not by technique alone. A methodological comparison of development analysis with Esther Duflo and Elinor Ostrom pp. 277-303

Agnès Labrousse

Re-evaluating community policing in a polycentric system pp. 305-325

Peter Boettke, Jayme S. Lemke and Liya Palagashvili

Cigarettes, dollars and bitcoins – an essay on the ontology of money pp. 327-347

J. P. Smit, Filip Buekens and Stan Du Plessis

The historian's craft and economics pp. 349-370

Bradley A. Hansen and Mary Eschelbach Hansen

Aid, ethics, and the Samaritan's dilemma: strategic courage in constitutional entrepreneurship pp. 371-393

Emily C. Skarbek

Does social trust speed up reforms? The case of central-bank independence pp. 395-415

Niclas Berggren, Sven-Olov Daunfeldt and Jörgen Hellström

Heterogeneity and law: toward a cognitive legal theory pp. 417-442

Angela Ambrosino

Defensive modernization in Germany and in the Habsburg Empire – a historical study of capitalist transformation pp. 443-469

Gerhard Wegner

Do ‘institutional complementarities’ foster female labour force participation?1 pp. 471-497

Olivier Thévenon

Volume 12, month March, 2016

Max U versus Humanomics: a critique of neo-institutionalism pp. 1-27

Deirdre Nansen McCLOSKEY

Institutions and economic history: a critique of professor McCloskey pp. 29-41

Avner Greif and Joel Mokyr

Ideas or institutions? – a comment pp. 43-48

Guido Tabellini

Can two observations confirm a theory? A comment on Max U versus Humanomics pp. 49-51

Robert A. Lawson

Institutions for getting out of the way pp. 53-61

Richard Langlois

The humanities are scientific: a reply to the defenses of economic neo-institutionalism pp. 63-78

Deirdre Nansen McCLOSKEY

Institutional complementarities in the dynamic comparative analysis of capitalism pp. 79-103

Bruno Amable

The origins of private property rights: states or customary organizations? pp. 105-128

Ilia Murtazashvili and Jennifer Murtazashvili

Institutional development, transaction costs and economic growth: evidence from a cross-country investigation pp. 129-159

Mitja Kovač and Rok Spruk

The French revolution and German industrialization: dubious models and doubtful causality pp. 161-190

Michael Kopsidis and Daniel Bromley

A spatial analysis of incomes and institutional quality: evidence from US metropolitan areas pp. 191-216

Jamie Bologna, Andrew Young and Donald J. Lacombe

Tit-for-tat in trade policies: nothing but a fest for vested interests? pp. 217-239

Barbara Dluhosch

Agent-based computational models– a formal heuristic for institutionalist pattern modelling? pp. 241-261

Claudius Gräbner-Radkowitsch

Volume 11, month December, 2015

Much of the ‘economics of property rights’ devalues property and legal rights pp. 683-709

Geoffrey Hodgson

On Hodgson on property rights pp. 711-717

Douglas W. Allen

What are ‘property rights’, and why do they matter? A comment on Hodgson's article pp. 719-723

Yoram Barzel

‘Economic property rights’ as ‘nonsense upon stilts’: a comment on Hodgson pp. 725-730

Daniel H. Cole

What Humpty Dumpty might have said about property rights – and the need to put them back together again: a response to critics pp. 731-747

Geoffrey Hodgson

Situating care in mainstream health economics: an ethical dilemma? pp. 749-767

John Davis and Robert McMASTER

Hackerspaces: a case study in the creation and management of a common pool resource pp. 769-781

Michael R. Williams and Joshua Hall

Customary rule-following behaviour in the work of John Stuart Mill and Alfred Marshall1 pp. 783-801

Michel Zouboulakis

Why Zambia failed pp. 803-821

Stuart John Barton

Trust and prosocial behaviour in a process of state capacity building: the case of the Palestinian territories1 pp. 823-846

Luca Andriani and Fabio Sabatini

Bypassing weak institutions in a large late-comer economy pp. 847-874

Evguenia Bessonova and Ksenia Gonchar

Volume 11, month September, 2015

Institutions, rules, and equilibria: a unified theory* pp. 459-480

Frank Hindriks and Francesco Guala

Conduct, rules and the origins of institutions pp. 481-483

Vernon Smith

Why is the equilibrium notion essential for a unified institutional theory? A friendly remark on the article by Hindriks and Guala pp. 485-488

Masahiko Aoki

On ‘common-sense ontology’: a comment on the paper by Frank Hindriks and Francesco Guala pp. 489-492

Robert Sugden

Institutions, rules and equilibria: a commentary pp. 493-496

Ken Binmore

On defining institutions: rules versus equilibria pp. 497-505

Geoffrey Hodgson

Status functions and institutional facts: reply to Hindriks and Guala pp. 507-514

John R. Searle

Understanding institutions: replies to Aoki, Binmore, Hodgson, Searle, Smith, and Sugden pp. 515-522

Frank Hindriks and Francesco Guala

A forum on minds and institutions pp. 523-534

Teppo Felin

The dynamics of organizational structures and performances under diverging distributions of knowledge and different power structures pp. 535-559

Giovanni Dosi and Luigi Marengo

Garbage in, garbage out? Some micro sources of macro errors pp. 561-583

Cass Sunstein and Reid Hastie

Introduction to a forum on the judgment-based approach to entrepreneurship: accomplishments, challenges, new directions pp. 585-599

Nicolai J. Foss and Peter Klein

‘Doctor, Doctor...’ entrepreneurial diagnosis and market making pp. 601-621

Andrew C. Godley and Mark Casson

Uncertainty, judgment, and the theory of the firm pp. 623-650

Niklas L. Hallberg

Entrepreneurial judgment as empathic accuracy: a sequential decision-making approach to entrepreneurial action pp. 651-681

Jeffery S. McMullen

Volume 11, month June, 2015

Introduction to the Ronald H. Coase memorial issue pp. 213-219

Geoffrey Hodgson, Claude Menard, Mary M. Shirley and Ning Wang

Ronald Harry Coase: institutional economist and institution builder pp. 221-226

Oliver Williamson

Ronald Coase's impact on economics pp. 227-244

Mary M. Shirley, Ning Wang and Claude Menard

Ronald Coase's theory of the firm and the scope of economics pp. 245-264

Brian J. Loasby

Costly institutions as substitutes: novelty and limits of the Coasian approach pp. 265-281

Ugo Pagano and Massimiliano Vatiero

Transaction-specific investments and organizational choice: a Coase-to-Coase theory pp. 283-299

Thomas J. Miceli

The institutional structure of production revisited pp. 301-327

Enrico Rossi

Understanding The Problem of Social Cost pp. 329-352

Brett M. Frischmann and Alain Marciano

‘A magnificent business prospect...’ the Coase theorem, the extortion problem, and the creation of Coase theorem worlds pp. 353-378

Steven Medema

The Coase theorem: coherent, logical, and not disproved pp. 379-390

Douglas W. Allen

Coasian and modern property rights economics pp. 391-411

Kirsten Foss and Nicolai Foss

‘The fugitive’: The figure of the judge in Coase's economics pp. 413-435

Elodie Bertrand

Two perspectives on trading in radio spectrum usage rights: Coase and Commons compared pp. 437-457

Wolter Lemstra, John Groenewegen, Piet de Vries and Rajen Akalu

Volume 11, month March, 2015

Economics for a creative world pp. 1-31

Roger Koppl, Stuart Kauffman, Teppo Felin and Giuseppe Longo

Creative economics for a creative world: a comment pp. 33-38

David Colander

Next steps toward an economics for a creative world: a comment pp. 39-45

John Foster

Economics for a creative world: some agreements and some criticism pp. 47-53

Pavel Pelikan

Causality and regularity in a ‘creative world’ pp. 55-60

Ulrich Witt

Economics for a creative world: a response to comments pp. 61-68

Roger Koppl, Stuart Kauffman, Teppo Felin and Giuseppe Longo

History as a laboratory to better understand the formation of institutions pp. 69-91

Bas J.P. Van Bavel

Coasean method: lessons from the farm pp. 93-110

Douglas W. Allen

The dictator effect: how long years in office affect economic development pp. 111-139

Kostadis Papaioannou and Jan Luiten van Zanden

Inequality and culture in a cross-section of countries pp. 141-166

Andreas Kyriacou and Francisco López

The political economy of special economic zones pp. 167-190

Lotta Moberg

Historical analysis of institutions and organizations: the case of the Brazilian electricity sector pp. 191-212

Guilherme Signorini, R. Brent Ross and H. Christopher Peterson