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 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

Volume 64, issue C, 2020

Bank funding and the recent political development in Italy: What about redenomination risk?

Johannes Tholl, Christoph Schwarzbach, Sandro Pittalis and Hans-Jörg von Mettenheim

Solvency II and sovereign credit risk: Additional empirical evidence and some thoughts about implications for regulators and lawmakers

Tobias Basse

Reaching for mediocrity: Competition and stagnation in pharmaceutical innovation

Son Le and Neel U. Sukhatme

Optimism and pessimism in bargaining and contests

Erya Yang

Merchant hubs and spatial disparities in the private enforcement of international trade regimes

Nicolas Lampach, Wessel Wijtvliet and Arthur Dyevre

Judicial arbitration of unfair dismissal cases: The role of peer effects

Benoit Pierre Freyens and Xiaodong Gong

Volume 63, issue C, 2020

Stated choices of environmental managers: The role of punishment

Dietrich Earnhart

Regulatory changes and long-run relationships of the EMU sovereign debt markets: Implications for future policy framework

Erdinc Akyildirim, Shaen Corbet, Duc Khuong Nguyen and Ahmet Sensoy

A model of corporate self-policing and self-reporting

Masaki Iwasaki

Is a fine still a price? Replication as robustness in empirical legal studies

Cherie Metcalf, Emily A. Satterthwaite, J. Shahar Dillbary and Brock Stoddard

Exploring dissent in the Supreme Court of Argentina

Sergio Muro, Sofia Amaral-Garcia, Alejandro Chehtman and Nuno Garoupa

The equilibrium compliance rate among regulated firms

Jonas Häckner and Mathias Herzing

Fee shifting and accuracy in adjudication

Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci and Margherita Saraceno

Spurred by legal tradition or contextual politics? Lessons about judicial dissent from Slovenia and Croatia

Nuno Garoupa and Peter Grajzl

Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age: an empirical study of attorney experience in torts litigation

Chang-Ching Lin, Yun-chien Chang and Kong-Pin Chen

Examining the impact of child access prevention laws on youth firearm suicides using the synthetic control method

Mark Gius

Reputational cost of securities fraud in japan under a public-enforcement-centered sanction regime

Zhu, Qiaochu (Amy)

The effects of macroeconomic, fiscal and monetary policy announcements on sovereign bond spreads

Antonio Afonso, Joao Jalles and Mina Kazemi

State Gun Control Laws, Gun Ownership and the Supply of Homicide Organ Donors

Firat Bilgel

Deterrence and liability for intentional torts

Jonathan Klick and John MacDonald

Comment on Brady, Evans & Wehrly, reputational penalties for environmental violations: A pure and scientific replication study

Daniel Klerman

Opting for the English rule: On the contractual re-allocation of legal fees

Mehdi Ayouni, Tim Friehe and Yannick Gabuthy

Does gender diversity in panels of judges matter? Evidence from French child support cases

Cécile Bourreau-Dubois, Myriam Doriat-Duban, Bruno Jeandidier and Jean-Claude Ray

Burglary reduction and improved police performance through private alarm response

Erwin Blackstone, Simon Hakim and Brian Meehan

Testing a fine is a price in the lab

Lewis Kornhauser, Yijia Lu and Stephan Tontrup