The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization

1985 - 2025

Current editor(s): Andrea Prat

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2025, volume 41, articles 2

Fines, nonpayment, and revenues: evidence from speeding tickets pp. 381-401

Traxler Christian and Dušek Libor

Land use supervision and environmental pollution: multitasking bureaucrats and spillovers across regulations pp. 402-454

Haichao Fan, Guanchun Liu, Huanhuan Wang and Xiaoxue Zhao

Simon says? Equilibrium obedience and the limits of authority pp. 455-497

Heikki Rantakari

The effect of privacy on market structure and prices pp. 498-526

Daniel Bird and Zvika Neeman

Strangers’ property pp. 527-569

Marco Fabbri, Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci and Matteo Rizzolli

Legal research as a collective enterprise: an examination of data availability in empirical legal scholarship pp. 570-603

Abigail A Matthews and Jason Rantanen

The politics of presidential removals pp. 604-633

Lindsey Gailmard

Microtargeting, voters’ unawareness, and democracy† pp. 634-653

Freek van Gils, Wieland Müller and Jens Prüfer

Sweeping the dirt under the rug: measuring spillovers of an anti-corruption measure pp. 654-699

Andrea Tulli

Asymmetric crime dynamics in and out of lockdowns* pp. 700-729

Rubén Poblete-Cazenave

Terrorist violence and the fuzzy frontier: national and supranational identities in Britain pp. 730-756

Georgios Efthyvoulou, Harry Pickard and Vincenzo Bove

Coming out in America: thirty years of cultural change pp. 757-821

Raquel Fernández, Sahar Parsa and Martina Viarengo

2025, volume 41, articles 1

The Congressional Leadership Dilemma pp. 1-35

Christian Fong

Withdrawn as duplicate: Social Ties and the Influence of Public Policies on Individual Opinions: The Case of Same-Sex Marriage Laws pp.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

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 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