International Review of Law and Economics

1981 - 2026

Current editor(s): C. Ott, A. W. Katz and H-B. SchÃ¤fer

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Conditional political legislation cycles: Fabio Padovano and Youssoufa Sy
Does court-annexed mediation facilitate case disposition? Evidence from civil and commercial lawsuits: Peter Grajzl, Jaka Cepec and Barbara Mörec
Private enforcement of procurement rules: The heterogeneous effect of the EU remedies directive: Eshien Chong, Michael Klien and Stéphane Saussier
Williamson’s legacy: A lasting influence: Claude Ménard
Efficient liability law with costly insurance: Luigi Alberto Franzoni
Structural or cyclical decline: Commercial court cases in the Netherlands: Diogo Requena, Frans van Dijk, Wolter Hassink and Remme Verkerk
Exchange offer, prenegotiated, or freefall restructuring: Timothy C.G. Fisher, Jocelyn Martel and Lorenzo Naranjo
Behaviorally efficient remedies: An experiment: Christoph Engel and Lars Freund
Legal errors and evidence rules with biased law enforcers: Ken Yahagi

AI devices and liability: Kene Boun My, Julien Jacob and Mathieu Lefebvre
Liability law, Defensive medicine and Healthcare quality: Bertrand Chopard
Where’s Coase? Transaction costs reduction or rent-seeking in determining US environmental policies: Gary D. Libecap
Ideology beyond elections: Path dependence in local public service provision: Jean Beuve, Zoé Le Squeren and Marian Moszoro
Populist constitutional backsliding and judicial independence: Evidence from Türkiye: Nuno Garoupa and Rok Spruk
Product liability influences incentives for horizontal mergers: Andreea Cosnita-Langlais, Tim Friehe and Eric Langlais
Inter-municipal cooperation in drinking water supply: Trade-offs between transaction costs, efficiency and service quality: Mehdi Guelmamen, Serge Garcia and Alexandre Mayol
Collusion in bidding markets: The case of the French public transport industry: Philippe Gagnepain and David Martimort
In Memoriam: Robert D. Cooter: Francesco Parisi

Competition and the two margins of privacy: David Bounie, Antoine Dubus and Patrick Waelbroeck
The role of the regulatory framework in enhancing SMEs’ digital transformation: Marianna Succurro and Cristiana Donati
“Platform Holdup” and Platform Regulation: Jinglei Huang and Danxia Xie
Vertical interoperability in mobile ecosystems: Will the DMA deliver (what competition law could not)?: Giuseppe Colangelo and Alba Ribera Martínez
The impact of antitrust enforcement on China’s digital platforms: Evidence from SAMR v. Alibaba: Kenneth Khoo, Sinchit Lai and Chuyue Tian
Has the European Takeover Bids Directive reached its objectives? The cases of Finland, Germany and Spain: Nuria Alcalde-Fradejas and Inés Pérez-Soba
Do Chinese courts apply the “Hand Formula”: Empirical evidence from cases related to the duty of safety protection: Haoyi Zhang
Conflict and property law: The hidden costs of takings and of liability rule protection: Sergio Mittlaender
Notice-and-takedown as dispute resolution: An empirical analysis of GitHub notices: Pengfei Zhang and Ji Li
And the law relaxed the rules – A quasi-experimental study of fatal police shootings in Europe: Sebastian Roché, Simon Varaine and Paul Le Derff
Clearance rates and disposition times: Not the whole story of judicial efficiency: Miguel Alves Pereira

Did recreational marijuana legalization increase crime in the long run?: Sunyoung Lee
When do governments attack the judiciary? The explanatory power of political corruption: Aylin Aydin-Cakir and Ebru İlter Akarçay
Balancing power and performance: The role of managerial rent in competitive advantage: Chandra S. Mishra
(Not) Canceling out the cross-section: Mitigating the effect of peremptory challenges on jury selection: Francis X. Flanagan
Corporate control: Persistence and the shifting role of control-enhancing mechanisms in Italian listed firms (1978–2018): Silvia Rigamonti
Can independent directors effectively monitor related party transactions? Evidence from Hong Kong: Hong Huang, Charles Zhen Qu and Haitian Lu
Ex-ante versus Ex-post in competition law enforcement: Blurred boundaries and economic rationale: Patrice Bougette, Oliver Budzinski and Frédéric Marty
Reinforcing data protection and competition through art. 6(2) of the Digital Markets Act: Peter J. van de Waerdt
News flow as a determinant of the voting premium of dual-class shares: Hubert de La Bruslerie

Norms as obligations: Leonard Hoeft, Michael Kurschilgen and Wladislaw Mill
Case law in European merger control: Johan Callermo
An inspector calls: On the optimality of warning firms about ongoing inspections in antitrust policy: María C. Avramovich
Jury priors and observable defendant characteristics: Jesse Bull
Allocating the common costs of a public service operator: An axiomatic approach: David Lowing, Léa Munich and Kevin Techer

ESG disclosure, investor awareness, and carbon risk pricing: Evidence from the Chinese market: Sirui Han, Haitian Lu and Hao Wu
Selling and abandoning legal rights: Keith N. Hylton
Fighting free with free: Freemium vs. Piracy: Antoine Dubus, Christine Halmenschlager and Patrick Waelbroeck
Judiciary-driven finance: Quasi-experimental evidence from specialized financial adjudication institutions in China: Kangyun Bao and Shenghua Lu
Predicting patent lawsuits with machine learning: Steffen Juranek and Håkon Otneim
Mandatory disclosure of open-ended real estate fund shares that are registered for redemption?: Thomas Kaspereit
Illicit enrichment in Germany: An evaluation of the reformed asset recovery regime's ability to confiscate proceeds of crime: Cornelia Körtl and Imad Chbib
On the strategic choice of overconfident lawyers: Tim Friehe, Cat Lam Pham and Simon Xemaire
Workload, legal doctrine, and judicial review in an authoritarian regime: A study of expropriation judgments in China: Chaoqun Zhan and Shitong Qiao
The broken-windows theory of crime: A Bayesian approach: Thomas J. Miceli and Kathleen Segerson
Estimating the effect of concealed carry laws on murder: A response to Bondy, et al: Carlisle Moody and John R. Lott