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 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

Volume 77, issue C, 2024

Fiscal pressure and judicial decisions: Evidence from financial penalties for official corruption in China

Hongli Chu, Shengmin Sun and Jian Wei

Proposal convergence and settlement under final offer arbitration

Amy Farmer and Paul Pecorino

Inequality snowballing

Daniel Giraldo Paez and Zachary Liscow

Did the French reform of the judicial map affect conciliation activities?

Matthieu Belarouci, Nicolas Vaillant and François-Charles Wolff

Volume 76, issue C, 2023

Motivations for the restructuring of China’s patent court system

Jun Wang

Competing with Leviathan: Law and government ownership in China’s public-private partnership market

James Si Zeng

Non-compliance of the European Court of Human Rights decisions: A machine learning analysis

Engin Yıldırım, Mehmet Fatih Sert, Burcu Kartal and Şuayyip Çalış

Liability and the incentive to improve information about risk when injurers may be judgment-proof

Till Requate, Tim Friehe and Aditi Sengupta

Settled: Patent characteristics and litigation outcomes in the pharmaceutical industry

Kiefer Ahn, Antonio Trujillo, Jason Gibbons, Charles L. Bennett and Gerard Anderson

Dynamics in environmental legislation

Nicolae Stef and Arvind Ashta

Ask more, awarded more: Evidence from Taiwan’s courts

Yun-chien Chang, Kong-Pin Chen, Jen-Che Liao and Chang-Ching Lin

Volume 75, issue C, 2023

Which companies pay more (or less) in legal fees? An empirical study of India

Srinivasan Sankaraguruswamy and Umakanth Varottil

Law and inequality: A comparative approach to the distributive implications of legal systems

Illan Barriola, Bruno Deffains and Olivier Musy

Variability in punishment, risk preferences and crime deterrence

Mario Menegatti

Estimating the effect of U.S. concealed carry laws on homicide: A replication and sensitivity analysis

Matthew V. Bondy, Samuel V. Cai and John Donohue

Recourse restrictions and judicial foreclosures: Effects of mortgage law on loan price and collateralization

Ana Sa

The effects of reputational sanctions on culpable firms: Evidence from China’s stock markets

Robin Hui Huang and Linhan Zhang

Market for artificial intelligence in health care and compensation for medical errors

Bertrand Chopard and Olivier Musy

When more isn’t always better: The ambiguity of fully transparent judicial action and unrestricted publication rules

Florian Baumann and Frank Fagan

Ethnolinguistic diversity, quality of local public institutions, and firm-level innovation

Chiara Natalie Focacci, Mitja Kovac and Rok Spruk

Mutual optimism and risk preferences in litigation

Keith N. Hylton

Volume 74, issue C, 2023

The dominance of skill in online poker

Jerome Hergueux and Gabriel Smagghue

Judicial compliance in district courts

Daniel L. Chen

The effect of opioids on crime: Evidence from the introduction of OxyContin

Yongbo Sim

Advance disclosure of insider transactions: Empirical evidence from the Vietnamese stock market

Jérémie Lefebvre and Paolo Mazza

Volume 73, issue C, 2023

District attorney compensation and performance

Gregory DeAngelo, Bryan McCannon and Morgan Stockham

Taxing banks leverage and syndicated lending: A cross-country comparison

Aurore Burietz, Steven Ongena and Matthieu Picault

How stock market reacts to environmental disasters and judicial decisions: A case study of Mariana’s dam collapse in Brazil

T.P. Assis, F.F. Cordeiro and L.C. Schiavon

A macrohistory of legal evolution and coevolution: Property, procedure, and contract in early-modern English caselaw

Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell

Incentives for investments in defensive technology: An economic analysis of the Safety Act

Mattias K Polborn

The Coase Theorem and the empty core: Inspecting the entrails after four decades

Varouj Aivazian and Jeffrey L. Callen

Law enforcement with rent-seeking government under voting pressure

Ken Yahagi and Yohei Yamaguchi

The effect of political influence on corporate valuation: Evidence from party-building reform in China

Christopher Chao-hung Chen, Re-Jin Guo and Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin

Strengthening worker benefits or destroying jobs: Effect of the 2008 Labor Contract Law in China

Chih-Hai Yang

Counteracting offshore tax evasion: Evidence from the foreign account tax compliance act

D’Avino, Carmela

Volume 72, issue C, 2022

Bias in media coverage of antitrust actions

Juan Jiménez González, Jordi Perdiguero and Inmaculada Gutiérrez

ON THE DECLINE IN STATE POPULATION DISTRIBUTION: A COASEAN ROLE FOR SECTION 111 OF THE AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION?

Benjamen Franklen Gussen

The value of fiduciary duties: Evidence from en bloc sales in Singapore

Jianfeng Hu, Kelvin F.K. Low and Wei Zhang

Crime and the Mariel Boatlift

Alexander Billy and Michael Packard

Is it the firm, the innovator, or the innovation? Determinants of perceived non-imitability leading to unprotected intellectual property

Marilena Vecco, Nikolaos Georgantzís and Pieter Kroonenberg

Consent or coordination? assemblies in early medieval Europe

Andrew T. Young

Do women drive corporate social responsibility? Evidence from gender diversity reforms around the world

Rong Ding, Tinghua Duan, Wenxuan Hou, Xianda Liu and Ziwei Xu

Borrowers’ discouragement and creditor information

Jérémie Bertrand and Paolo Mazza

Citizens united and individual sovereignty: A fresh perspective

Uriel Procaccia and Eyal Winter

Spatial and temporal correlations of crime in Detroit: Evidence from spatial dynamic panel data models

Xu Lin, Jihu Zhang and Shanhe Jiang

Girls Just Wanna Have Funds? The effect of women-friendly legislation on female-led firms’ access to credit

Jérémie Bertrand and Caroline Perrin

Time to resolve insolvency and political elections

Nicolae Stef, Sami Ben Jabeur and Robert F. Scherer