Journal of Economic Theory

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Economic Theory is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Marital preferences and stable matching in cultural evolution42
Maxmin expected utility in Savage's framework23
The evolution of resilience21
Evolutionarily rational mutations in structured populations21
Search theory of imperfect competition with decreasing returns to scale18
Tor-Periphery Insider Networks16
A microfounded approach to currency substitution and government policy16
Bargaining under almost complete information14
Sequential Bayesian persuasion14
Corrigendum to “Adverse selection without single crossing: Monotone solutions” [J. Econ. Theory 158 (2015) 127–164]14
Efficiency and surplus distribution in majoritarian reputational bargaining14
Credit conditions, inflation, and unemployment13
A dynamic theory of bank lending, firm entry, and investment fluctuations13
Perverse ethical concerns: Misinformation and coordination12
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Linear Riley equilibria in quadratic signaling games12
Segmentation and beliefs: A theory of self-fulfilling idiosyncratic risk11
Delegated recruitment and statistical discrimination11
Bargaining under liquidity constraints: Experimental evidence11
Strength of preference over complementary pairs axiomatizes alpha-MEU preferences11
Optimal orchestration of rewards and punishments in rank-order contests11
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Preference manipulations lead to the uniform rule11
Strategy-proof and envy-free mechanisms for house allocation11
Strategy-proof and envy-free random assignment11
The multiple-volunteers principle10
Communication games, sequential equilibrium, and mediators10
Corrigendum to “Evaluating ambiguous random variables from Choquet to maxmin expected utility” [J. Econ. Theory 192 (2021) 105129]10
Panics and prices10
Meritocracy versus diversity10
Incomplete financial markets, the social cost of carbon and constrained efficient carbon pricing9
A choice-functional characterization of welfarism9
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Random utility models with ordered types and domains9
Information design for social learning on a recommendation platform9
Strategic investment and learning with private information9
Motivated naivete9
The A/B testing problem with Gaussian priors9
The equilibrium-value convergence for the multiple-partners game9
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Irreversible investment under predictable growth: Why land stays vacant when housing demand is booming9
Corrigendum to “Asymptotic behavior of Bayesian learners with misspecified models” [J. Econ. Theory 195 (2021) 105260]9
Optimal monetary policy in production networks with distortions8
Fiscal stimulus with imperfect expectations: Spending vs. tax policy8
Monopoly pricing with optimal information8
Bad reputation due to incompetent expert8
Integrability and identification in multinomial choice models8
Persuading large investors8
Understanding uncertainty shocks and the role of black swans8
Collective decision through an informed mediator8
Statistical uncertainty and coarse contracts8
Optimal banking with delegated monitoring7
The determination of public debt under both aggregate and idiosyncratic uncertainty7
Corrigendum to “Two-Sided Matching Problems with Externalities” [J. Econ. Theory 70 (1996) 93–108]7
Making predictions based on data: Holistic and atomistic procedures7
Foreseen risks7
Strategyproof social choice when preferences and outcomes may contain ties7
The probability of pluralistic ignorance7
Corrigendum to “Random assignment: Redefining the serial rule” [J. Econ. Theory 158 (2015) 308–318]7
Player strength and effort in contests7
Personal power dynamics in bargaining7
Asset bubbles, entrepreneurial risks, and economic growth7
Biased learning under ambiguous information7
Effects of changes in preferences in moral hazard problems7
Price impact under heterogeneous beliefs and restricted participation7
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Corrigendum to “Efficiency and stability under substitutable priorities with ties” [J. Econ. Theory 184 (2019) 104950]7
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On perfect pairwise stable networks6
Inventory, market making, and liquidity in OTC markets6
The normality assumption in coordination games with flexible information acquisition6
On the relationship between damage and deception6
Comparing theories of one-shot play out of treatment6
Nominal rigidities, rational inattention, and the optimal monetary policy6
Constrained random matching6
Ambiguous information and dilation: An experiment6
Bidding in multi-unit auctions under limited information6
When does centralization undermine adaptation?6
Relationship externalities5
Sequential trading with coarse contingencies5
Knowing the informed player's payoffs and simple play in repeated games5
Self-insurance and market insurance substitutability: an established tenet reconsidered5
Preference for Knowledge5
Information design for selling search goods and the effect of competition5
Repeated contracting without commitment5
Asset pricing with time preference shocks: Existence and uniqueness5
Adaptive preferences: An evolutionary model of non-expected utility and ambiguity aversion5
Conflicting objectives in kidney exchange5
Ambiguity, information processing, and financial intermediation5
Persuasion without ex-post commitment5
Corrigendum to “Role of linking mechanisms in multitask agency with hidden information” [J. Econ. Theory 145 (2010) 2241–2259]5
Auctions with tokens: Monetary policy as a mechanism design choice5
Multiple prizes in tournaments with career concerns5
A complete characterization of infinitely repeated two-player games having computable strategies with no computable best response under limit-of-means payoff5
Spatial search5
Detectability, duality, and surplus extraction5
Sequential network design5
Sequentially mixed search and equilibrium price dispersion5
Data-driven contract design5
Rational inattention when decisions take time5
Uncertain product availability in search markets5
Discontinuous and continuous stochastic choice and coordination in the lab4
Regret, responsibility, and randomization: A theory of stochastic choice4
Intertemporal bundling4
Fomenting conflict4
Actions and signals4
Shuttle diplomacy4
Random allocations of multiple objects with incomplete information4
Minimal contagious sets: Degree distributional bounds4
Wait or act now? Learning dynamics in stopping games4
An alternative approach for nonparametric analysis of random utility models4
The central bank, the treasury, or the market: Which one determines the price level?4
The evolution of risk attitudes with fertility thresholds4
Network-based peer monitoring design4
Random quasi-linear utility4
HANK on speed: Robust nonlinear solutions using automatic differentiation4
Costly subjective learning4
Information and policing4
Cognitive hierarchies for games in extensive form4
Optimal technology design4
The negative value of private information in illiquid markets4
Dynamic banking with non-maturing deposits4
Moral hazard and subjective evaluation4
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Blockchain congestion facilitates currency competition4
Preferences for the resolution of risk and ambiguity4
Inefficient labor market sorting4
There is no known nonlinear Markov perfect equilibrium strategies for the infinite horizon linear quadratic differential game4
Selecting a winner with external referees4
On the empirical relevance of correlated equilibrium4
Frequent monitoring in dynamic contracts4
Endogenous liquidity and volatility4
Learning with limited memory: Bayesianism vs heuristics4
Redistributive fiscal policy and marginal propensities to consume4
Intertemporal allocation with unknown discounting3
Dynamic information design in an entry game3
Widening access in university admissions3
Implementation in undominated strategies with applications to auction design, public good provision and matching3
Partially constructed sequential equilibrium3
Correlation concern3
Learning about ambiguous long-term prospects3
Stable allocations in discrete exchange economies3
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Consumer heterogeneity and inefficiency in oligopoly markets3
Structural unemployment, underemployment, and secular stagnation3
Labor markets during pandemics3
Undominated monopoly regulation3
The screening role of market tightness in a competitive search equilibrium with adverse selection3
On bankruptcy in general equilibrium with uncertainty3
Opinion aggregation: Borda and Condorcet revisited3
Intermediation as rent extraction3
Haves and have-nots: A theory of economic sufficientarianism3
On the efficiency and fairness of deferred acceptance with single tie-breaking3
Farsighted objections and maximality in one-to-one matching problems3
Signaling in dynamic markets with adverse selection3
Market versus optimum allocation in open economies3
Randomization is optimal in the robust principal-agent problem3
Strategic mistakes3
Corrigendum to “Relation Between a Social Welfare Function and the Gini Index of Income Inequality” Journal of Economic Theory 4 (1972): 98-1003
Virus dynamics with behavioral responses3
Insider trading with penalties in continuous time3
Endogenous ambiguity and rational miscommunication3
Extrapolative asset pricing3
Logic-based updating3
Learning efficient equilibria in repeated games3
Offshoring and the distribution of skills3
Stochastic sorting3
Mechanism design with belief-dependent preferences3
The analogical foundations of cooperation3
Revenue effects of ambiguity in multi-unit auctions3
On-the-job wage dynamics3
Persuasion with verifiable information3
Endogenous business cycles in overlapping generations models with time inconsistency3
The strategic decentralization of recruiting3
Interest rate dynamics and commodity prices2
Sufficient conditions for a “simple” decentralization with consumption externalities2
Starting small in project choice: A discrete-time setting with a continuum of types2
Feedback design in games with ambiguity-averse players2
Self-evident events and the value of linking2
Regulating oligopolistic competition2
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Public goods, social alternatives, and the Lindahl-VCG relationship2
Automation and top entrepreneurial income inequality2
Culture and communication2
Risk aversion with nothing to lose2
Information design through scarcity and social learning2
Competitive price discrimination, imperfect information, and consumer search2
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When (not) to publicize inspection results2
Goodwill in communication2
Unidirectional incentive compatibility2
A population's feasible posterior beliefs2
Comment on “Assignment problems with complementarities” [J. Econ. Theory 165 (2016) 209-241]2
Bubbly bailout2
The epistemic spirit of divinity2
Strengthening incentives for truth-telling in Majority voting2
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Beliefs and the net worth trap2
A new approach to the uniqueness of equilibrium with CRRA preferences2
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Endogenous criteria for success2
Optimal contingent delegation2
Mediated talk: An experiment2
Deposit insurance, bank regulation, and narrow banking2
Efficient risk sharing and separation2
Bayesian persuasion with costly information acquisition2
Personalized pricing, network effects, and commitment2
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Growing attention2
Sorting expertise2
Climate payments: A Coase theorem2
Unemployment risks and intra-household insurance2
Competition in costly talk2
Modeling machine learning: A cognitive economic approach2
Evolutionary foundation for heterogeneity in risk aversion2
A theory of debt maturity and innovation2
Learning about profitability and dynamic cash management2
Bivariate scoring rules: Unifying the characterizations of positional scoring rules and Kemeny's rule2
On the voluntary disclosure of redundant information2
Repeated communication with private lying costs2
Two time-consistent Paretian solutions to the intertemporal resource allocation problem2
Fragility under joint financing: The (moral) hazards of diversification2
Portfolio concentration, portfolio inertia, and ambiguous correlation2
Insider trading with penalties2
The shocks matter: Labor mobility and the welfare cost of a currency union2
Time-consistent equilibria in dynamic models with recursive payoffs and behavioral discounting2
Reputation and the credibility of inflation plans2
Optimal discriminatory disclosure2
Existence of an equilibrium in arrowian markets for consumption externalities2
Wealth, endogenous collateral quality, and financial crises2
Dynamic consistency and rectangularity for the smooth ambiguity model2
Homophily and influence2
As strong as the weakest node: The impact of misinformation in social networks2
Comment on “A theoretical foundation of ambiguity measurement” [J. Econ. Theory 187 (2020) 105001]2
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Business cycles fluctuations in three-sector intertemporal equilibrium models1
Contracting and search with heterogeneous principals and agents1
Pledge-and-review bargaining1
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Informational frictions in funding and credit markets1
Overborrowing, underborrowing, and macroprudential policy1
Markets for financial innovation1
Monotone equilibrium in matching markets with signaling1
Bargaining in small dynamic markets1
Informed principal problems in bilateral trading1
Semi-endogenous or fully endogenous growth? A unified theory1
Corrigendum to “Bubbles and constraints on debt accumulation” [J. Econ. Theory 57 (1992) 245–256]1
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Talent, basic research and growth1
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