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1985 - 2025

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2025, volume 41, articles 1

Withdrawn as duplicate: Social Ties and the Influence of Public Policies on Individual Opinions: The Case of Same-Sex Marriage Laws pp. e1-e75

Sylvie Blasco, Eva Moreno Galbis and Jeremy Tanguy

The Congressional Leadership Dilemma pp. 1-35

Christian Fong

Intrinsic adherence to law: physical versus intellectual property pp. 36-65

Stefan Bechtold, Gabriel Gertsch and Martin Schonger

The Direct Effect of Corporate Law on Entrepreneurship pp. 66-90

Jorge Guzman

Political ideology and judicial administration: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 91-126

Adam Chilton, Christopher Cotropia, Kyle Rozema and David Schwartz

First, do no harm, second, say sorry? Investigating the impact of a new tort reform pp. 127-158

Philip DeCicca and Natalie Malak

Campaign contributions, partisan politics, and environmental polarization in the US Congress pp. 159-195

Dean Lueck, Julio A Ramos Pastrana and Gustavo Torrens

Equity illusions pp. 196-238

Yifat Aran and Raviv Murciano-Goroff

Board composition and performance of state-owned enterprises: quasi-experimental evidence pp. 239-263

Audinga Baltrunaite, Mario Cannella, Sauro Mocetti and Giacomo Roma

Ownership networks and labor income pp. 264-293

Federico Huneeus, Borja Larrain, Mauricio Larrain and Mounu Prem

Welcome to Waco! The impact of judge shopping on litigation pp. 294-315

Christian Helmers and Brian J Love

The evolution of contracting: evidence from the US freight rail industry pp. 316-347

Jeffrey T Macher, John W Mayo and David Sappington

Know your rights! A field experiment on legal knowledge, property rights, and investment in Kenya pp. 348-378

Adam Aberra and Matthieu Chemin

2024, volume 40, articles 3

Hiring Lucky CEOs pp. 571-596

Mario Daniele Amore and Sebastian Schwenen

Approval regulation and learning, with application to timing of merger control pp. 597-624

Marco Ottaviani and Abraham L Wickelgren

Overcoming contractual incompleteness: the role of guiding principles pp. 625-647

David Frydlinger and Oliver Hart

Product liability and firm owners’ delegation to overconfident managers pp. 648-672

Tim Friehe and Cat Lam Pham

Labor provisions in trade agreements: recasting the protectionist debate pp. 673-693

Desirée LeClercq, Raymond Robertson and Daniel Samaan

When does patent protection spur cumulative research within firms? pp. 694-728

Ashish Arora, Sharon Belenzon, Matt Marx and Dror Shvadron

Peer pressure and discrimination: evidence from international cricket† pp. 729-752

A. Nilesh Fernando and Siddharth Eapen George

The role of personal and impersonal relational contracts on partner selection and efficiency pp. 753-785

Manuel Munoz and Ernesto Reuben

Competition policy and the labor share pp. 786-819

Amit Zac, Carola Casti, Christopher Decker and Ariel Ezrachi

Improving the signal quality of grades pp. 820-853

Adam Chilton, Peter Joy, Kyle Rozema and James Thomas

On the incentives to exacerbate polarization pp. 854-890

Pablo Montagnes and Richard Van Weelden

Transactional-governance structures:new cross-country data and an application to the effect of uncertainty pp. 891-929

Peter Murrell, Nona Karalashvili and David C Francis

2024, volume 40, articles 2

Emotional Cues and Violent Behavior: Unexpected Basketball Losses Increase Incidents of Family Violence pp. 267-288

Alexander Cardazzi, Bryan C McCannon, Brad Humphreys and Zachary Rodriguez

Vulnerability to tax enforcement and spillovers of corruption: cross-industry evidence from China pp. 289-337

Shawn Xiaoguang Chen

Do mentoring and oversight matter? The effects of allocating central administrators to local government units: evidence from Japan pp. 338-361

Nobuhiko Nakazawa

Effect of mood and worker incentives on workplace productivity† pp. 362-393

Decio Coviello, Erika Deserranno, Nicola Persico and Paola Sapienza

Organizational dynamics: culture, design, and performance pp. 394-415

Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson

Efficient liability law when parties genuinely disagree pp. 416-433

Luigi Alberto Franzoni

Anti-money-laundering oversight and banks’ reporting of suspicious transactions: some empirical evidence pp. 434-469

Mario Gara, Francesco Manaresi, Domenico J Marchetti and Marco Marinucci

Public Procurement and Supplier Job Creation: Insights from Auctions pp. 470-527

Stjepan Srhoj and Melko Dragojević

Leadership rotations and the convergence of subnational economic policies in China: evidence from provincial government work reports pp. 528-569

Jiaxuan Lu

2024, volume 40, articles 1

Contracts and Induced Institutional Change pp. 1-33

Bard Harstad and Torben Mideksa

Does Information About AI Regulation Change Manager Evaluation of Ethical Concerns and Intent to Adopt AI? pp. 34-75

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Benjamin Larsen, Yong Suk Lee and Michael Webb

Big Fish in Small (and Big) Ponds: A Study of Careers pp. 76-107

Jed DeVaro, Oliver Gürtler, Marc Gürtler and Christian Deutscher

Law Matters—Less Than We Thought pp. 108-128

Daniel Klerman and Holger Spamann

The Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reforms: Universal Credit, Financial Insecurity, and Crime pp. 129-181

Rocco d’Este and Alex Harvey

How Does Court Stability Affect Legal Stability? pp. 182-223

Álvaro Bustos and Nuno Garoupa

Does corruption hinder female political participation? Evidence from a measure against organized crime pp. 224-265

Anna Laura Baraldi and Carla Ronza

2023, volume 39, articles 3

The Ownership of Data pp. 615-641

Anastasios Dosis and Wilfried Sand-Zantman

International politics and oil trade: evidence from Russian oil exports pp. 642-681

Sergey Mityakov, Margarita Portnykh and Kevin K Tsui

Executive Control of Agency Adjudication: Capacity, Selection, and Precedential Rulemaking pp. 682-721

David K Hausman, Daniel E Ho, Mark S Krass and Anne McDonough

Fighting Organized Crime by Targeting their Revenue: Screening, Mafias, and Public Funds pp. 722-746

Gianmarco Daniele and Gemma Dipoppa

Influence by Intimidation: Business Lobbying in the Regulatory Process pp. 747-774

Alex Acs and Cary Coglianese

Political Agency and Implementation Subsidies with Imperfect Monitoring pp. 775-800

Benjamin Blumenthal

How informative is the text of securities complaints? pp. 801-827

Adam B Badawi

Markets for Scientific Attribution pp. 828-846

Joshua Gans and Fiona Murray

The Benefits of Trade Secret Legal Protection: Evidence from Firms’ Cost Structure Decisions pp. 847-875

Feng Gao, Xue Wang and Benda Yin

2023, volume 39, articles 2

The Differential Effects of Malpractice Reform: Defensive Medicine in Obstetrics pp. 309-349

Javier Cano-Urbina and Daniel Montanera

Electoral Sentencing Cycles pp. 350-370

David Abrams, Roberto Galbiati, Emeric Henry and Arnaud Philippe

Organization of the State: Home Assignment and Bureaucrat Performance pp. 371-419

Guo Xu, Marianne Bertrand and Robin Burgess

Task Discretion, Labor-market Frictions, and Entrepreneurship† pp. 420-455

Andrea Canidio and Patrick Legros

The Dynamics of the Debate About Gay Rights: Evidence from US Newspapers pp. 456-492

Alan Manning and Paolo Masella

A Potentially Known Confidential Settlement pp. 493-520

Frances Xu Lee

Signaling in the “Before” Model of Final Offer Arbitration pp. 521-556

Amy Farmer and Paul Pecorino

Gender and Bureaucratic Corruption: Evidence from Two Countries pp. 557-585

Francesco Decarolis, Raymond Fisman, Paolo Pinotti, Silvia Vannutelli and Yongxiang Wang

Deterrence of Orchestrated Cheating: Group versus Individual Punishment pp. 586-614

Shmuel Leshem and Abraham L Wickelgren

2023, volume 39, articles 1

Judicial Review by the People Themselves: Democracy and the Rule of Law in Ancient Athens pp. 1-26

Federica Carugati, Randall Calvert and Barry R Weingast

The Effects of Private Damage Claims on Cartel Activity: Experimental Evidence* pp. 27-76

Olivia Bodnar, Melinda Fremerey, Hans-Theo Normann and Jannika Schad

A Theory of Claim Resolution pp. 77-122

Scott Baker and Lewis A Kornhauser

Measuring the Legislative Design of Judicial Review of Agency Actions pp. 123-159

Pamela J Clouser McCann, Charles R Shipan and Yuhua Wang

How Institutions Shape Morality pp. 160-198

Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci and Marco Fabbri

Implementing (Un)fair Procedures: Containing Favoritism When Unequal Outcomes are Inevitable pp. 199-234

Robert Schmidt and Stefan T Trautmann

Immigration, Fear of Crime, and Public Spending on Security pp. 235-280

Vincenzo Bove, Leandro Elia and Massimiliano Ferraresi

Doing It by the Book: Political Contestability and Public Contract Renegotiations pp. 281-308

Jean Beuve, Marian Moszoro and Pablo Spiller