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 70, issue C, 2022

A model of competitive self-regulation

Krzysztof Szczygielski

Shining light on corporate political spending: Evidence from shareholder engagements

Bobo Zhang and Zhou Zhang

Focus vs. spread: Police box consolidation and its impact on crime in Korea

Songman Kang and Duol Kim

Resolution of corporate insolvency during COVID-19 pandemic. Evidence from France

Nicolae Stef and Jean-Joachim Bissieux

State versus federal wiretap orders: A look at the data

Jason Chan, Jin-Hyuk Kim and Liad Wagman

Do specialized intellectual property courts show a pro-patent propensity? Evidence from China

Ya-Feng Zhang, Li-Ming Li and Ke Xu

The strategic interaction between cartels and anti-trust authorities

Jonas Häckner and Mathias Herzing

Optimal fine reductions for self-reporting: The impact of loss aversion

Eberhard Feess and Roee Sarel

Volume 69, issue C, 2022

The internet echo chamber and the misinformation of judges: The case of judges’ perception of public support for the death penalty in China

Zhuang Liu

Affirmative action still hasn’t been shown to reduce the number of black lawyers: A response to Sander

Ian Ayres, Richard Brooks and Zachary Shelley

Do correctional authorities treat all offenders equally? Evaluating the use of a risk assessment instrument

Georgios Georgiou

Loss aversion for the value of voting rights: WTA/WTP ratios for a ballot

Hiroharu Saito

Litigation with adversarial efforts

Roy Baharad, Chen Cohen and Shmuel Nitzan

Discovery in a screening model of final offer arbitration

Amy Farmer and Paul Pecorino

Entrepreneurs’ legal infractions and hidden information: Evidence from small business bankruptcies

Stefan Sundgren and Irina Alexeyeva

Courts as monitoring agents: The case of China

Xiaoge Dong and Stefan Voigt

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