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 68, issue C, 2021

Monetary financing and fiscal discipline

Oliver Hülsewig and Armin Steinbach

Judicial attitudes under shifting jurisprudence: Evidence from Brazil’s new drug law of 2006

Alexandre Samy de Castro

Collective bargaining power and corporate cash policy

Muhammad Farooq Ahmad and Oskar Kowalewski

Regulation and purchase diversity: Empirical evidence from the U.S. alcohol market

Shuay-Tsyr Ho and Bradley J. Rickard

Should the maximum duration of fixed-term contracts increase in recessions? Evidence from a law reform

Pedro Martins

Detecting bid-rigging coalitions in different countries and auction formats

David Imhof and Hannes Wallimann

Estimating cartel damages with model averaging approaches

Wen-Jen Tsay

The efficacy of measuring judicial ideal points: The mis-analogy of IRTs

Joshua Y. Lerner, Mathew D. McCubbins and Kristen M. Renberg

EU intermediary regulation and its impact on insurance agent quality: Evidence from Germany

Christoph Lex and Sharon Tennyson

Car accidents in the age of robots

Alessandro De Chiara, Idoia Elizalde, Ester Manna and Adrian Segura-Moreiras

Creditors’ holdup, releveraging and the setting of private appropriation in a control contract between shareholders

Hubert de La Bruslerie and Simon Gueguen

Corporate legal insider trading in China: Performance and determinants

Paolo Mazza and Shiyu Wang

Hospital multi-dimensional quality competition with medical malpractice

Rosalind Bell-Aldeghi and Bertrand Chopard

Causation and the incentives of multiple injurers

Henrik Lando and Urs Schweizer

Openness effects on the rule of law: Size and patterns of trade

Richard Frensch, Roman Horvath and Stephan Huber

An economic theory of optimal enactment and enforcement of laws

Thomas J. Miceli and Murat C. Mungan

Crime, credible enforcement, and multiple equilibria

Matthew Baker and Thomas J. Miceli

Accident avoidance and settlement bargaining: The role of reciprocity

Tim Friehe and Cat Lam Pham

Volume 67, issue C, 2021

Should environment be a concern for competition policy when firms face environmental liability?

Maxime Charreire and Eric Langlais

Allocating supervisory responsibilities to central bankers: Does national culture matter?

Chrysovalantis Gaganis, Fotios Pasiouras and Ansgar Wohlschlegel

Loyalty to the party or loyalty to the party leader: Evidence from the Spanish Constitutional Court

Nuno Garoupa, Marian Gili and Fernando Gómez Pomar

Encouraging domestic innovation by protecting foreign intellectual property

Robert Gmeiner and Michael Gmeiner

Authorial control of the Supreme Court: Chief Justice Roberts and the Obamacare surprise

Álvaro Bustos and Emerson H. Tiller

Subrogation and its consequences for tort litigation

Stephen Spurr

Does voting on tax fund destination imply a direct democracy effect?

Nicolas Jacquemet, Stéphane Luchini and Antoine Malézieux

Could Chapter 11 redeem itself? Wealth and welfare effects of the redemption option

Amira Annabi, Michèle Breton and Pascal François

Volume 66, issue C, 2021

Public law enforcement under ambiguity

Bertrand Chopard and Marie Obidzinski

Does debt relief “irresistibly attract banks as honey attracts bees”? Evidence from low-income countries’ debt relief programs

Marin Ferry, Marc Raffinot and Baptiste Venet

How does liability affect prices? Railroad sparks and timber

Colin Doran and Thomas Stratmann

Are arbitrators biased in ICSID arbitration? A dynamic perspective

Weijia Rao

Asymmetric solutions to asymmetric information problems

Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Sander Onderstal and Francesco Parisi

Law enforcement with motivated agents

Ken Yahagi

Discovery, disclosure, and confidence

Alex McLeod

The CV effect: To what extent does the chance to reorganize depend on a bankruptcy judge’s profile?

Régis Blazy and Stéphane Esquerré

Capital structure and the optimal payment methods in acquisitions

Sami Attaoui, Wenbin Cao and Pierre Six

Regulated occupations in Italy: Extent and labour market effects

Sauro Mocetti, Lucia Rizzica and Giacomo Roma

Does regulation of defensive tactics with mandatory rules benefit shareholders? Evidence from event studies in China

James Si Zeng

How has the Covid19 pandemic impacted the courts of law? Evidence from Brazil

Caio Castelliano, Peter Grajzl and Eduardo Watanabe

Volume 65, issue C, 2021

The law of attraction: How similarity between judges and lawyers helps win cases in the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal

Mark D. Verhagen and Julius Yam

The global financial crisis, the EMU sovereign debt crisis and international financial regulation: lessons from a systematic literature review

Samira Meier, Miguel Rodriguez Gonzalez and Frederik Kunze

Professional vs. non-professional labour judges: their impact on the quality of judicial decisions

Alfonso Moral, Virginia Rosales and Ángel Martín-Román

The effect of information structure on farmland contractual choice: toward a revised theory of share tenancy with new evidence from Guangdong, China

Yiming He and Alan R. Collins

Are Adjudication Panels Strategically Selected? The Case of Constitutional Court in Poland

Jan Fałkowski and Jacek Lewkowicz

Takeovers, shareholder litigation, and the free-riding problem

Mark Broere and Robin Christmann

Is justice delayed justice denied? An empirical approach

Alessandro Melcarne, Giovanni Ramello and Rok Spruk

Macroeconomic and policy implications of eurobonds

Cristina Badarau, Florence Huart and Ibrahima Sangaré

Reputational economies of scale

Daniel Klerman and Miguel F.P. de Figueiredo

Creditor information registries and relationship lending

Jérémie Bertrand and Paul-Olivier Klein

Do fee-shifting rules affect plaintiffs’ win rates? A theoretical and empirical analysis

Gabriel Doménech-Pascual, Marta Martínez-Matute and Juan Mora-Sanguinetti

Why choosing IFRS? Benefits of voluntary adoption by European private companies

Jérémie Bertrand, Hélène de Brebisson and Aurore Burietz

Tailoring critical loss to the competitive process

Malcolm B. Coate, Shawn W. Ulrick and John M. Yun

Staggered boards, unequal voting rights, poison pills and innovation intensity: New evidence from the Asian markets

William Mbanyele

Contracting for sex in the Pacific War

John Ramseyer

The ineffectiveness of ‘observe and report’ patrols on crime

Marco Fabbri and Jonathan Klick

Contracts as reference points: A replication

Svenja Hippel and Sven Hoeppner

Patent assertion entities and the courts: Injunctive or fee-based relief?

James Brander and Barbara Spencer

Judicial institutions of property rights protection and foreign direct investment inflows

Mehmet Nasih Tag

The price of expungements

Romain Espinosa, Gregory DeAngelo, Bruno Deffains, Murat Mungan and Rustam Romaniuc