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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Evolutionarily rational mutations in structured populations149
Sequential Bayesian persuasion45
Maxmin expected utility in Savage's framework28
Implications of uncertainty for optimal policies27
Search theory of imperfect competition with decreasing returns to scale25
Marital preferences and stable matching in cultural evolution21
Ambiguity in dynamic contracts20
Corrigendum to “Adverse selection without single crossing: Monotone solutions” [J. Econ. Theory 158 (2015) 127–164]17
Linear Riley equilibria in quadratic signaling games16
Efficiency and surplus distribution in majoritarian reputational bargaining16
A dynamic theory of bank lending, firm entry, and investment fluctuations16
Value computation and modulation: A neuroeconomic theory of self-control as constrained optimization16
Bargaining under almost complete information15
A microfounded approach to currency substitution and government policy15
Segmentation and beliefs: A theory of self-fulfilling idiosyncratic risk14
Monetary policy rules in a non-rational world: A macroeconomic experiment14
Strategy-proof and envy-free mechanisms for house allocation14
Strategy-proof and envy-free random assignment14
Structured ambiguity and model misspecification13
Preference manipulations lead to the uniform rule13
Strength of preference over complementary pairs axiomatizes alpha-MEU preferences13
Perverse ethical concerns: Misinformation and coordination12
Optimal orchestration of rewards and punishments in rank-order contests12
Editorial Board12
Delegated recruitment and statistical discrimination12
Panics and prices11
Random utility models with ordered types and domains11
Corrigendum to “Evaluating ambiguous random variables from Choquet to maxmin expected utility” [J. Econ. Theory 192 (2021) 105129]11
Optimal monetary policy in production networks with distortions11
Continuous unimodal maps in economic dynamics: On easily verifiable conditions for topological chaos11
Distrust in experts and the origins of disagreement11
The A/B testing problem with Gaussian priors10
Irreversible investment under predictable growth: Why land stays vacant when housing demand is booming10
Communication games, sequential equilibrium, and mediators10
Motivated naivete10
A theory-based decision model10
Understanding uncertainty shocks and the role of black swans9
The equilibrium-value convergence for the multiple-partners game9
Editorial Board9
Confounding dynamics9
A choice-functional characterization of welfarism9
A characterization of Cesàro average utility9
Intertemporal preference with loss aversion: Consumption and risk-attitude9
Editorial Board9
Existence and uniqueness of recursive utilities without boundedness9
Corrigendum to “Asymptotic behavior of Bayesian learners with misspecified models” [J. Econ. Theory 195 (2021) 105260]9
Strategic investment and learning with private information9
Corrigendum to “Efficiency and stability under substitutable priorities with ties” [J. Econ. Theory 184 (2019) 104950]8
Biased learning under ambiguous information8
The effect of handicaps on turnout for large electorates with an application to assessment voting8
Fiscal stimulus with imperfect expectations: Spending vs. tax policy8
Collective decision through an informed mediator8
Internal and external effects of social distancing in a pandemic8
Persuading large investors8
Optimal banking with delegated monitoring8
Contextual deliberation and the choice-valuation preference reversal8
Foreseen risks8
Statistical uncertainty and coarse contracts8
The probability of pluralistic ignorance8
The determination of public debt under both aggregate and idiosyncratic uncertainty8
Asset bubbles, entrepreneurial risks, and economic growth8
Strategyproof social choice when preferences and outcomes may contain ties8
Personal power dynamics in bargaining8
Discovery and equilibrium in games with unawareness8
Integrability and identification in multinomial choice models8
Editorial Board7
When does centralization undermine adaptation?7
Corrigendum to “Random assignment: Redefining the serial rule” [J. Econ. Theory 158 (2015) 308–318]7
The normality assumption in coordination games with flexible information acquisition7
Bidding in multi-unit auctions under limited information7
Vertical contracting with endogenous market structure7
Inventory, market making, and liquidity in OTC markets7
Effects of changes in preferences in moral hazard problems7
Constrained random matching7
Comparing theories of one-shot play out of treatment7
Sequential trading with coarse contingencies7
Making predictions based on data: Holistic and atomistic procedures7
Corrigendum to “Two-Sided Matching Problems with Externalities” [J. Econ. Theory 70 (1996) 93–108]7
Reputation for playing mixed actions: A characterization theorem7
Combining forecasts in the presence of ambiguity over correlation structures7
Price impact under heterogeneous beliefs and restricted participation7
Ambiguous information and dilation: An experiment6
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Detectability, duality, and surplus extraction6
Income inequality and endogenous market structure under directed search6
Self-accessibility and repeated games with asymmetric discounting6
Repeated contracting without commitment6
Player-compatible learning and player-compatible equilibrium6
Spatial search6
A complete characterization of infinitely repeated two-player games having computable strategies with no computable best response under limit-of-means payoff6
On perfect pairwise stable networks6
Sequentially mixed search and equilibrium price dispersion6
Sequential auctions with ambiguity5
Rational inattention when decisions take time5
The limit of targeting in networks5
Stability and venture structures in multilateral matching5
Data-driven contract design5
Conflicting objectives in kidney exchange5
Asset pricing with time preference shocks: Existence and uniqueness5
Uncertain product availability in search markets5
Pooled testing for quarantine decisions5
Foundations of ambiguity models under symmetry: α-MEU and smooth ambiguity5
Information acquisition and provision in school choice: An experimental study5
Random quasi-linear utility5
Corrigendum to “Role of linking mechanisms in multitask agency with hidden information” [J. Econ. Theory 145 (2010) 2241–2259]5
Multiple prizes in tournaments with career concerns5
In the basic auction model, the optimal reserve price may depend on the number of bidders5
Knowing the informed player's payoffs and simple play in repeated games5
Updating confidence in beliefs5
Stock-based pay, liquidity, and the role of market making5
A unified characterization of the randomized strategy-proof rules5
Preference for Knowledge5
Information design for selling search goods and the effect of competition5
Relationship externalities5
Ambiguity, information processing, and financial intermediation5
Adaptive preferences: An evolutionary model of non-expected utility and ambiguity aversion5
Editorial Board4
Rational inattention and the monotone likelihood ratio property4
The negative value of private information in illiquid markets4
Costly subjective learning4
On the empirical relevance of correlated equilibrium4
Dynamic banking with non-maturing deposits4
Gradual college admission4
Intermediation in over-the-counter markets with price transparency4
The evolution of risk attitudes with fertility thresholds4
Equal-quantile rules in resource allocation with uncertain needs4
Fomenting conflict4
Security design without verifiable retention4
Network-based peer monitoring design4
Inefficient labor market sorting4
Cognitive hierarchies for games in extensive form4
Learning with limited memory: Bayesianism vs heuristics4
Learning under ambiguity: An experiment in gradual information processing4
Frequent monitoring in dynamic contracts4
Fully Bayesian aggregation4
Information and policing4
Redistributive fiscal policy and marginal propensities to consume4
An alternative approach for nonparametric analysis of random utility models4
There is no known nonlinear Markov perfect equilibrium strategies for the infinite horizon linear quadratic differential game4
Editorial Board4
Optimal technology design4
A lot of ambiguity4
Minimal contagious sets: Degree distributional bounds4
Wait or act now? Learning dynamics in stopping games4
The central bank, the treasury, or the market: Which one determines the price level?4
Asymptotic behavior of Bayesian learners with misspecified models4
Moral hazard and subjective evaluation4
Endogenous liquidity and volatility4
Discontinuous and continuous stochastic choice and coordination in the lab4
Symposium Issue on Ambiguity, Robustness, and Model Uncertainty4
Regret, responsibility, and randomization: A theory of stochastic choice4
Revenue effects of ambiguity in multi-unit auctions3
Ambiguity aversion and wealth effects3
Haves and have-nots: A theory of economic sufficientarianism3
A new approach to the uniqueness of equilibrium with CRRA preferences3
Widening access in university admissions3
Selecting a winner with external referees3
On-the-job wage dynamics3
Virus dynamics with behavioral responses3
Randomization is optimal in the robust principal-agent problem3
Editorial Board3
Stable allocations in discrete exchange economies3
The limits of meritocracy3
English versus Vickrey auctions with loss-averse bidders3
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Robust pricing under strategic trading3
Consumer heterogeneity and inefficiency in oligopoly markets3
Repeated communication with private lying costs3
The analogical foundations of cooperation3
Intermediation as rent extraction3
Offshoring and the distribution of skills3
Efficient risk sharing and separation3
Structural unemployment, underemployment, and secular stagnation3
Opinion aggregation: Borda and Condorcet revisited3
Multidimensional bargaining and posted prices3
Intertemporal allocation with unknown discounting3
Logic-based updating3
Editorial Board3
Dynamic information design in an entry game3
Shuttle diplomacy3
Working to learn3
Farsighted objections and maximality in one-to-one matching problems3
Endogenous ambiguity and rational miscommunication3
Belief-averaging and relative utilitarianism3
On bankruptcy in general equilibrium with uncertainty3
Consistency of the doctor-optimal equilibrium price vector in job-matching markets3
Extrapolative asset pricing3
Insider trading with penalties3
Deposit insurance, bank regulation, and narrow banking3
Learning efficient equilibria in repeated games3
Corrigendum to “Relation Between a Social Welfare Function and the Gini Index of Income Inequality” Journal of Economic Theory 4 (1972): 98-1003
Mixed strategies and preference for randomization in games with ambiguity averse agents3
Labor markets during pandemics3
Implementation in undominated strategies with applications to auction design, public good provision and matching3
Mechanism design with belief-dependent preferences3
Signaling in dynamic markets with adverse selection3
The strategic decentralization of recruiting3
Strategic mistakes3
Optimal sales mechanism with outside options3
The screening role of market tightness in a competitive search equilibrium with adverse selection3
On the efficiency and fairness of deferred acceptance with single tie-breaking3
Consistent rights on property spaces3
Optimal contingent delegation3
Portfolio concentration, portfolio inertia, and ambiguous correlation2
Plasticity of strategic sophistication in interactive decision-making2
A theory of debt maturity and innovation2
On the voluntary disclosure of redundant information2
Information design in optimal auctions2
Time-consistent equilibria in dynamic models with recursive payoffs and behavioral discounting2
Public disclosure and private information acquisition: A global game approach2
Existence of an equilibrium in arrowian markets for consumption externalities2
Manipulability in school choice2
Heterogeneity, decentralized trade, and the long-run real effects of inflation2
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Hidden testing and selective disclosure of evidence2
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Cultural transmission with incomplete information2
Aggregation of opinions in networks of individuals and collectives2
Generalized perturbed best response dynamics with a continuum of strategies2
Comment on “A theoretical foundation of ambiguity measurement” [J. Econ. Theory 187 (2020) 105001]2
Bivariate scoring rules: Unifying the characterizations of positional scoring rules and Kemeny's rule2
Feedback design in games with ambiguity-averse players2
Sufficient conditions for a “simple” decentralization with consumption externalities2
Goodwill in communication2
Mediated talk: An experiment2
A population's feasible posterior beliefs2
Learning when to say no2
Speculative trade under ambiguity2
Signaling covertly acquired information2
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Risk aversion with nothing to lose2
Endogenous criteria for success2
Fragility under joint financing: The (moral) hazards of diversification2
Far above others2
Disclosure, welfare and adverse selection2
Starting small in project choice: A discrete-time setting with a continuum of types2
Dynamic consistency and rectangularity for the smooth ambiguity model2
Editorial Board2
Selling two identical objects2
As strong as the weakest node: The impact of misinformation in social networks2
Unemployment risks and intra-household insurance2
Sorting expertise2
Bubbly bailout2
Modeling machine learning: A cognitive economic approach2
Non-Bayesian updating in a social learning experiment2
Monitoring and incentives under multiple-bank lending: The role of collusive threats2
Snowballing private information2
Self-evident events and the value of linking2
Interest rate dynamics and commodity prices2
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