Journal of Economic Theory

1969 - 2025

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Volume 203, issue C, 2022

Insider trading with penalties

Sylvain Carré, Pierre Collin-Dufresne and Franck Gabriel

Portfolio concentration, portfolio inertia, and ambiguous correlation

Julia Jiang, Jun Liu, Weidong Tian and Xudong Zeng

The crawler: Three equivalence results for object (re)allocation problems when preferences are single-peaked

Yuki Tamura and Hadi Hosseini

Goodwill in communication

Aditya Kuvalekar, Elliot Lipnowski and João Ramos

The measurement of the value of a language

Jorge Alcalde-Unzu, Juan Moreno-Ternero and Shlomo Weber

Generalized separability and integrability: Consumer demand with a price aggregator

Thibault Fally

Constrained random matching

Ivan Balbuzanov

Learning with misattribution of reference dependence

Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch and Benjamin Bushong

The determination of public debt under both aggregate and idiosyncratic uncertainty

YiLi Chien and Yi Wen

Optimal CEO turnover

Cheng Wang and Youzhi Yang

Unemployment risks and intra-household insurance

Javier Fernández-Blanco

A theory of housing demand shocks

Ding Dong, Zheng Liu, Pengfei Wang and Tao Zha

The normality assumption in coordination games with flexible information acquisition

Alexandros Rigos

Learning and firm dynamics in a stochastic equilibrium

Can Tian

The conditional contribution mechanism for repeated public goods – The general case

Jörg Oechssler, Andreas Reischmann and Andis Sofianos

Identification in the random utility model

Christopher Turansick

Biased learning under ambiguous information

Jaden Yang Chen

Reverse Bayesianism and act independence

Surajeet Chakravarty, David Kelsey and Joshua Teitelbaum

Volume 202, issue C, 2022

When is coarseness not a curse? Comparative statics of the coarse random utility model

Sean Horan, Paola Manzini and Marco Mariotti

Strategyproof social choice when preferences and outcomes may contain ties

Felix Brandt, Christian Saile and Christian Stricker

Twofold multiprior preferences and failures of contingent reasoning

Federico Echenique, Masaki Miyashita, Yuta Nakamura, Luciano Pomatto and Jamie Vinson

The probability of pluralistic ignorance

Mauricio Fernández-Duque

Stochastic choice and rational inattention

Yi-Hsuan Lin

Two-dimensional information acquisition in social learning

Nina Bobkova and Helene Mass

Disentangling strict and weak choice in random expected utility models

Evan Piermont

How to make ambiguous strategies

Miklós Pintér

Bubbly bailout

Feng Dong and Zhiwei Xu

Social welfare in search games with asymmetric information

Gilad Bavly, Yuval Heller and Amnon Schreiber

Disclosure in epidemics

Ju Hu and Zhen Zhou

Volume 201, issue C, 2022

The limits of meritocracy

John Morgan, Justin Tumlinson and Felix Várdy

Learning in two-dimensional beauty contest games: Theory and experimental evidence

Mikhail Anufriev, John Duffy and Valentyn Panchenko

The limit of targeting in networks

Jian Li, Junjie Zhou and Ying-Ju Chen

The value of a coordination game

Willemien Kets, Wouter Kager and Alvaro Sandroni

Redistribution with labor market frictions

Carlos E. da Costa, Lucas J. Maestri and Marcelo R. Santos

Mechanism design with level-k types: Theory and an application to bilateral trade

Terri Kneeland

Continuous implementation with direct revelation mechanisms

Yi-Chun Chen, Manuel Mueller-Frank and Mallesh M. Pai

Income inequality and endogenous market structure under directed search

Serene Tan

Robust perfect equilibrium in large games

Enxian Chen, Lei Qiao, Xiang Sun and Yeneng Sun

Prudence versus predation and the gains from trade

Michelle Garfinkel, Constantinos Syropoulos and Thomas Zylkin

The emergence and persistence of oligarchy: A dynamic model of endogenous political power

Jee Seon Jeon and Ilwoo Hwang

Reputation for playing mixed actions: A characterization theorem

Harry Pei

Heterogeneity, decentralized trade, and the long-run real effects of inflation

Gu Jin and Tao Zhu

A characterization of Cesàro average utility

Marcus Pivato

Interdistrict school choice: A theory of student assignment

Isa Hafalir, Fuhito Kojima and M. Bumin Yenmez

Intermediation and price volatility

Thomas Gehrig and Klaus Ritzberger

Principal-agent VCG contracts

Ron Lavi and Elisheva S. Shamash

A theory-based decision model

Edi Karni

Continuous unimodal maps in economic dynamics: On easily verifiable conditions for topological chaos

Liuchun Deng, M. Khan and Tapan Mitra

Volume 200, issue C, 2022

Self-accessibility and repeated games with asymmetric discounting

Ani Dasgupta and Sambuddha Ghosh

On equilibrium existence in generalized multi-prize nested lottery contests

Qiang Fu, Zenan Wu and Yuxuan Zhu

Measuring preferences over the temporal resolution of consumption uncertainty

Thomas Meissner and Philipp Pfeiffer

Intertemporal preference with loss aversion: Consumption and risk-attitude

Kyoung Jin Choi, Junkee Jeon and Hyeng Keun Koo

Security design without verifiable retention

Qi Li

Cheating and compensation in price-fixing cartels

Jihwan Do

Optimal market thickness

Simon Loertscher, Ellen V. Muir and Peter G. Taylor

Informed speculation with k-level reasoning

Hang Zhou

Unintended consequences: Can the rise of the educated class explain the revival of protectionism?

Paolo Giordani and Fabio Mariani

A lot of ambiguity

Zvi Safra and Uzi Segal

Objective rationality foundations for (dynamic) α-MEU

Mira Frick, Ryota Iijima and Yves Le Yaouanq

Analytic policy function iteration

Zhao Han, Fei Tan and Jieran Wu

A revelation principle for correlated equilibrium under trembling-hand perfection

Xiao Luo, Yongchuan Qiao and Yang Sun

Selling two identical objects

Sushil Bikhchandani and Debasis Mishra

Generalized perturbed best response dynamics with a continuum of strategies

Ratul Lahkar, Sayan Mukherjee and Souvik Roy

Bayesian social aggregation with accumulating evidence

Marcus Pivato

Sharing idiosyncratic risk even though prices are “wrong”

Edward Halim, Yohanes Riyanto and Nilanjan Roy

Distrust in experts and the origins of disagreement

Ing-Haw Cheng and Alice Hsiaw

Hidden testing and selective disclosure of evidence

Claudia Herresthal

Correlation-robust auction design

Wei He and Jiangtao Li

Existence and uniqueness of recursive utilities without boundedness

Timothy M. Christensen

Destabilizing effects of market size in the dynamics of innovation

Kiminori Matsuyama and Philip Ushchev

Match length realization and cooperation in indefinitely repeated games

Friederike Mengel, Ludovica Orlandi and Simon Weidenholzer