Journal of Economic Theory

1969 - 2025

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Volume 190, issue C, 2020

Optimal similarity judgments in intertemporal choice (and beyond)

Fabrizio Adriani and Silvia Sonderegger

Repeated coordination with private learning

Pathikrit Basu, Kalyan Chatterjee, Tetsuya Hoshino and Omer Tamuz

Learning from failures: Optimal contracts for experimentation and production

Fahad Khalil, Jacques Lawarree and Alexander Rodivilov

Subjective utilitarianism: Individual decisions in a social context

Shiri Alon and Ehud Lehrer

Learning over the business cycle: Policy implications

George-Marios Angeletos, Luigi Iovino and Jennifer La'O

Tournament rewards and heavy tails

Mikhail Drugov and Dmitry Ryvkin

(Not) delegating decisions to experts: The effect of uncertainty

Daiki Kishishita

Strategic complements in two stage, 2 × 2 games

Yue Feng and Tarun Sabarwal

A game of hide and seek in networks

Francis Bloch, Bhaskar Dutta and Marcin Dziubiński

What matters in school choice tie-breaking? How competition guides design

Itai Ashlagi and Afshin Nikzad

Multiple applications, competing mechanisms, and market power

James Albrecht, Xiaoming Cai, Pieter Gautier and Susan Vroman

Liquidity and private information in asset markets: To signal or not to signal

Zijian Wang

Altruistic observational learning

Christoph March and Anthony Ziegelmeyer

Matching with myopic and farsighted players

P. Jean-Jacques Herings, Ana Mauleon and Vincent Vannetelbosch

Volume 189, issue C, 2020

Weighted discounting—On group diversity, time-inconsistency, and consequences for investment

Sebastian Ebert, Wei Wei and Xun Yu Zhou

Robust implementation in weakly perfect Bayesian strategies

Christoph Müller

Sweet lemons: Mitigating collusion in organizations

Colin von Negenborn and Martin Pollrich

Order on types based on monotone comparative statics

Takashi Kunimoto and Takuro Yamashita

The individualistic foundation of equilibrium distribution

Xiang Sun, Yeneng Sun and Haomiao Yu

Aggregate risk and the Pareto principle

Nabil I. Al-Najjar and Luciano Pomatto

Insurance as a lemons market: Coverage denials and pooling

Hector Chade and Edward Schlee

Spherical preferences

Christopher Chambers and Federico Echenique

Naivete about temptation and self-control: Foundations for recursive naive quasi-hyperbolic discounting

David S. Ahn, Ryota Iijima and Todd Sarver

Preferences for the resolution of uncertainty and the timing of information

Kirby Nielsen

Reasoning about others' reasoning

Larbi Alaoui, Katharina A. Janezic and Antonio Penta

Split it up to create incentives: Investment, public goods and crossing the river

Simon Martin and Karl Schlag

Life insurance and life settlement markets with overconfident policyholders

Hanming Fang and Zenan Wu

Crying about a strategic wolf: A theory of crime and warning

Aaron Kolb and Vincent Conitzer

Best-response dynamics in zero-sum stochastic games

David S. Leslie, Steven Perkins and Zibo Xu

Bargaining under liquidity constraints: Unified strategic foundations of the Nash and Kalai solutions

Tai-Wei Hu and Guillaume Rocheteau

Skill accumulation in the market and at home

Jean Flemming

Credit frictions and participation in over-the-counter markets

Lucie Lebeau

Monitoring and competing principals: A double-edged sword

Jen-Wen Chang

Modeling large societies: Why countable additivity is necessary

M. Khan, Lei Qiao, Kali P. Rath and Yeneng Sun

Monotonic norms and orthogonal issues in multidimensional voting

Alex Gershkov, Benny Moldovanu and Xianwen Shi

The measurement of resilience

Geir Asheim, Walter Bossert, Conchita D'Ambrosio and Claus Vögele

Increasing returns to scale within limits: A model of ICT and its effect on the income distribution and occupation choice

Tianxi Wang and Greg C. Wright

Volume 188, issue C, 2020

Robust equilibrium outcomes in sequential games under almost common certainty of payoffs

Satoru Takahashi and Olivier Tercieux

Weakening transferable utility: The case of non-intersecting Pareto curves

Thomas Demuynck and Tom Potoms

Repeated delegation

Elliot Lipnowski and João Ramos

Buyer-optimal extensionproof information

Stefan Terstiege and Cédric Wasser

The optimal quantity of money and partially-liquid assets

Ugo Zannini

Coordination motives and competition for attention in information markets

Simone Galperti and Isabel Trevino

Costly auction entry, royalty payments, and the optimality of asymmetric designs

Dan Bernhardt, Tingjun Liu and Takeharu Sogo

Strategy-proof multi-object mechanism design: Ex-post revenue maximization with non-quasilinear preferences

Tomoya Kazumura, Debasis Mishra and Shigehiro Serizawa

Calibrated uncertainty

Faruk Gul and Wolfgang Pesendorfer

Network formation with multigraphs and strategic complementarities

Sumit Joshi, Ahmed Saber Mahmud and Sudipta Sarangi

Multigenerational transmission of culture

Daniel Spiro

The permissible and the forbidden

Michael Richter and Ariel Rubinstein

Implementation of assortative matching under incomplete information

Naomi Utgoff

The scope of sequential screening with ex post participation constraints

Dirk Bergemann, Francisco Castro and Gabriel Y. Weintraub

A general theory of subjective mixtures

Paolo Ghirardato and Daniele Pennesi

How noise affects effort in tournaments

Mikhail Drugov and Dmitry Ryvkin

Too much waste, not enough rationing: The failure of stochastic, competitive markets

David de Meza and Francesco Reito

Dynamic reserves in matching markets

Orhan Aygun and Bertan Turhan

Just-noticeable difference as a behavioural foundation of the critical cost-efficiency index

Pawel Dziewulski

Reversals of signal-posterior monotonicity imply a bias of screening

Sander Heinsalu