International Review of Law and Economics

1981 - 2025

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

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Volume 83, issue C, 2025

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

Volume 82, issue C, 2025

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

Volume 81, issue C, 2025

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

Volume 80, issue C, 2024

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

Volume 79, issue C, 2024

Ex ante litigation risk and firm restatement decisions: Evidence from district courts

C.S. Agnes Cheng, Henry He Huang, Zhen Lei and Haitian Lu

Strategic anarchy; a model of prison violence as a means to informal governance and rent extraction

Jonathan Kurzfeld

An economic rationale for the different methods of feeding enslaved people in the antebellum South and British West Indies

Eleanor Brown and Ian Ayres

Patent law reform and innovation: An empirical assessment of the last 20 years

Christian Helmers and Brian J. Love

Artificial intelligence, inattention and liability rules

Marie Obidzinski and Yves Oytana

No War of Courts in the protection of fundamental rights: The case of amparo appeals in Spain

Julio López-Laborda, Fernando Rodrigo and Eduardo Sanz-Arcega

Beyond courts: Does strategic litigation affect climate change policy support?

Anna Kovács, Katharina Luckner, Anna Sekuła and Jarosław Kantorowicz

Environmental liability and product differentiation: Strict liability versus negligence revisited

Andreea Cosnita-Langlais and Eric Langlais

Institutional flexibility in tax law and enforcement

Emanuela Carbonara, Phil Curry, Claire A. Hill and Francesco Parisi

Scale and scope economies in first-instance courts: Portuguese specialized vs non-specialized courts

Nuno Q.M. Lopes and Maria Silva

Strict liability versus negligence in the case of data breach

Jooyong Jun and Jeong-Yoo Kim

Volume 78, issue C, 2024

Is transparency a blessing or a curse? An experimental horse race between accountability and extortionary corruption

Christoph Engel and Eyal Zamir

Elective corporate governance: Does board choice matter?

Martin Gelter and Mathias Siems

Does heat cause homicides? A meta-analysis

Vojtěch Mišák

Ban-the-box laws: Fair and effective?

Robert Kaestner and Xufei Wang

Changes in damages when liability rules change: an empirical study on compensation for the time spent in pretrial detention

Gabriel Doménech-Pascual and Juan Jiménez González

How acceptable is optimal deterrence?

Michał Kłusek

Commercial arbitration regime and sourcing decision

Se Mi Park

Bayesian persuasion in lawyer–client communication

Mehdi Ayouni, Tim Friehe and Yannick Gabuthy

Unequal unification? Income inequality and unification in nineteenth century Italy and Germany

Philipp Erfurth