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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Evolutionarily rational mutations in structured populations151
Maxmin expected utility in Savage's framework47
Implications of uncertainty for optimal policies29
Search theory of imperfect competition with decreasing returns to scale28
Marital preferences and stable matching in cultural evolution21
Linear Riley equilibria in quadratic signaling games17
Corrigendum to “Adverse selection without single crossing: Monotone solutions” [J. Econ. Theory 158 (2015) 127–164]17
A microfounded approach to currency substitution and government policy16
A dynamic theory of bank lending, firm entry, and investment fluctuations16
Bargaining under almost complete information16
Value computation and modulation: A neuroeconomic theory of self-control as constrained optimization16
Ambiguity in dynamic contracts15
Efficiency and surplus distribution in majoritarian reputational bargaining14
Monetary policy rules in a non-rational world: A macroeconomic experiment14
Strategy-proof and envy-free random assignment13
Segmentation and beliefs: A theory of self-fulfilling idiosyncratic risk13
Strategy-proof and envy-free mechanisms for house allocation13
Corrigendum to “Evaluating ambiguous random variables from Choquet to maxmin expected utility” [J. Econ. Theory 192 (2021) 105129]13
Panics and prices13
Sequential Bayesian persuasion13
Delegated recruitment and statistical discrimination13
Editorial Board12
Preference manipulations lead to the uniform rule12
Perverse ethical concerns: Misinformation and coordination12
Continuous unimodal maps in economic dynamics: On easily verifiable conditions for topological chaos12
Optimal orchestration of rewards and punishments in rank-order contests12
Structured ambiguity and model misspecification11
Strength of preference over complementary pairs axiomatizes alpha-MEU preferences11
Irreversible investment under predictable growth: Why land stays vacant when housing demand is booming10
Understanding uncertainty shocks and the role of black swans10
The A/B testing problem with Gaussian priors10
A theory-based decision model10
Distrust in experts and the origins of disagreement10
Optimal monetary policy in production networks with distortions10
Motivated naivete10
Communication games, sequential equilibrium, and mediators10
Existence and uniqueness of recursive utilities without boundedness9
Editorial Board9
Intertemporal preference with loss aversion: Consumption and risk-attitude9
Biased learning under ambiguous information9
The equilibrium-value convergence for the multiple-partners game9
Editorial Board9
A characterization of Cesàro average utility9
Corrigendum to “Efficiency and stability under substitutable priorities with ties” [J. Econ. Theory 184 (2019) 104950]9
A choice-functional characterization of welfarism9
Corrigendum to “Asymptotic behavior of Bayesian learners with misspecified models” [J. Econ. Theory 195 (2021) 105260]9
Strategic investment and learning with private information9
Random utility models with ordered types and domains9
Confounding dynamics9
Integrability and identification in multinomial choice models8
Asset bubbles, entrepreneurial risks, and economic growth8
Foreseen risks8
Optimal banking with delegated monitoring8
Vertical contracting with endogenous market structure8
Fiscal stimulus with imperfect expectations: Spending vs. tax policy8
Strategyproof social choice when preferences and outcomes may contain ties8
Collective decision through an informed mediator8
The determination of public debt under both aggregate and idiosyncratic uncertainty8
Personal power dynamics in bargaining8
Discovery and equilibrium in games with unawareness8
The probability of pluralistic ignorance8
Persuading large investors8
Statistical uncertainty and coarse contracts8
Internal and external effects of social distancing in a pandemic8
Inventory, market making, and liquidity in OTC markets7
Effects of changes in preferences in moral hazard problems7
Constrained random matching7
Price impact under heterogeneous beliefs and restricted participation7
On perfect pairwise stable networks7
Comparing theories of one-shot play out of treatment7
Corrigendum to “Two-Sided Matching Problems with Externalities” [J. Econ. Theory 70 (1996) 93–108]7
Reputation for playing mixed actions: A characterization theorem7
The normality assumption in coordination games with flexible information acquisition7
Bidding in multi-unit auctions under limited information7
Detectability, duality, and surplus extraction7
Corrigendum to “Random assignment: Redefining the serial rule” [J. Econ. Theory 158 (2015) 308–318]7
Sequential trading with coarse contingencies7
Editorial Board7
Combining forecasts in the presence of ambiguity over correlation structures7
Making predictions based on data: Holistic and atomistic procedures7
In the basic auction model, the optimal reserve price may depend on the number of bidders6
Relationship externalities6
Spatial search6
Income inequality and endogenous market structure under directed search6
Sequentially mixed search and equilibrium price dispersion6
Knowing the informed player's payoffs and simple play in repeated games6
Information acquisition and provision in school choice: An experimental study6
Multiple prizes in tournaments with career concerns6
Editorial Board6
Repeated contracting without commitment6
A complete characterization of infinitely repeated two-player games having computable strategies with no computable best response under limit-of-means payoff6
Ambiguity, information processing, and financial intermediation6
Pooled testing for quarantine decisions6
Asset pricing with time preference shocks: Existence and uniqueness6
When does centralization undermine adaptation?6
Self-accessibility and repeated games with asymmetric discounting6
Ambiguous information and dilation: An experiment6
Information design for selling search goods and the effect of competition5
Uncertain product availability in search markets5
Conflicting objectives in kidney exchange5
Random quasi-linear utility5
Discontinuous and continuous stochastic choice and coordination in the lab5
Fomenting conflict5
Symposium Issue on Ambiguity, Robustness, and Model Uncertainty5
There is no known nonlinear Markov perfect equilibrium strategies for the infinite horizon linear quadratic differential game5
Stability and venture structures in multilateral matching5
Sequential auctions with ambiguity5
Updating confidence in beliefs5
Stock-based pay, liquidity, and the role of market making5
Foundations of ambiguity models under symmetry: α-MEU and smooth ambiguity5
An alternative approach for nonparametric analysis of random utility models5
Redistributive fiscal policy and marginal propensities to consume5
Security design without verifiable retention5
A unified characterization of the randomized strategy-proof rules5
Corrigendum to “Role of linking mechanisms in multitask agency with hidden information” [J. Econ. Theory 145 (2010) 2241–2259]5
Adaptive preferences: An evolutionary model of non-expected utility and ambiguity aversion5
Rational inattention when decisions take time5
Data-driven contract design5
Preference for Knowledge5
Network-based peer monitoring design5
Regret, responsibility, and randomization: A theory of stochastic choice5
Editorial Board5
The limit of targeting in networks5
Inefficient labor market sorting4
The negative value of private information in illiquid markets4
Rational inattention and the monotone likelihood ratio property4
Moral hazard and subjective evaluation4
Dynamic banking with non-maturing deposits4
The central bank, the treasury, or the market: Which one determines the price level?4
Editorial Board4
Wait or act now? Learning dynamics in stopping games4
Shuttle diplomacy4
Endogenous liquidity and volatility4
Intermediation in over-the-counter markets with price transparency4
A lot of ambiguity4
Gradual college admission4
Frequent monitoring in dynamic contracts4
Optimal technology design4
English versus Vickrey auctions with loss-averse bidders4
Consistent rights on property spaces4
Stable allocations in discrete exchange economies4
Costly subjective learning4
Cognitive hierarchies for games in extensive form4
Information and policing4
The evolution of risk attitudes with fertility thresholds4
Equal-quantile rules in resource allocation with uncertain needs4
Editorial Board4
On the empirical relevance of correlated equilibrium4
The screening role of market tightness in a competitive search equilibrium with adverse selection4
Consumer heterogeneity and inefficiency in oligopoly markets4
Minimal contagious sets: Degree distributional bounds4
Learning with limited memory: Bayesianism vs heuristics4
Signaling in dynamic markets with adverse selection3
On-the-job wage dynamics3
Multidimensional bargaining and posted prices3
Belief-averaging and relative utilitarianism3
Working to learn3
Cultural transmission with incomplete information3
On bankruptcy in general equilibrium with uncertainty3
Editorial Board3
Farsighted objections and maximality in one-to-one matching problems3
Optimal contingent delegation3
Dynamic information design in an entry game3
Deposit insurance, bank regulation, and narrow banking3
The strategic decentralization of recruiting3
Intertemporal allocation with unknown discounting3
Insider trading with penalties3
Randomization is optimal in the robust principal-agent problem3
Consistency of the doctor-optimal equilibrium price vector in job-matching markets3
Disclosure, welfare and adverse selection3
Virus dynamics with behavioral responses3
Learning about profitability and dynamic cash management3
Mixed strategies and preference for randomization in games with ambiguity averse agents3
Generalized perturbed best response dynamics with a continuum of strategies3
Implementation in undominated strategies with applications to auction design, public good provision and matching3
Personalized pricing, network effects, and commitment3
On the efficiency and fairness of deferred acceptance with single tie-breaking3
Strategic disaggregation in matching markets3
Corrigendum to “Relation Between a Social Welfare Function and the Gini Index of Income Inequality” Journal of Economic Theory 4 (1972): 98-1003
Bayesian social aggregation with accumulating evidence3
Endogenous ambiguity and rational miscommunication3
Robust pricing under strategic trading3
Strategic mistakes3
Offshoring and the distribution of skills3
Labor markets during pandemics3
Selecting a winner with external referees3
Haves and have-nots: A theory of economic sufficientarianism3
Mechanism design with belief-dependent preferences3
Repeated communication with private lying costs3
Efficient risk sharing and separation3
Editorial Board3
Regulating oligopolistic competition3
Structural unemployment, underemployment, and secular stagnation3
Information design through scarcity and social learning3
Widening access in university admissions3
Fragility under joint financing: The (moral) hazards of diversification3
The analogical foundations of cooperation3
Risk aversion with nothing to lose3
Editorial Board3
Starting small in project choice: A discrete-time setting with a continuum of types3
Opinion aggregation: Borda and Condorcet revisited3
Learning efficient equilibria in repeated games3
The limits of meritocracy3
Intermediation as rent extraction3
Revenue effects of ambiguity in multi-unit auctions3
Extrapolative asset pricing3
Ambiguity aversion and wealth effects3
A new approach to the uniqueness of equilibrium with CRRA preferences3
Logic-based updating3
Growing attention2
Mediated talk: An experiment2
Plasticity of strategic sophistication in interactive decision-making2
Aggregation of opinions in networks of individuals and collectives2
Far above others2
Beliefs and the net worth trap2
Bubbly bailout2
Unemployment risks and intra-household insurance2
As strong as the weakest node: The impact of misinformation in social networks2
Goodwill in communication2
An intertemporal model of growing awareness2
On the voluntary disclosure of redundant information2
Designing communication hierarchies2
Time-consistent equilibria in dynamic models with recursive payoffs and behavioral discounting2
Snowballing private information2
Hidden testing and selective disclosure of evidence2
Self-evident events and the value of linking2
Editorial Board2
Non-Bayesian updating in a social learning experiment2
Signaling covertly acquired information2
Editorial Board2
A population's feasible posterior beliefs2
Heterogeneity, decentralized trade, and the long-run real effects of inflation2
Optimal market thickness2
Feedback design in games with ambiguity-averse players2
Coase meets Bellman: Dynamic programming for production networks2
Sufficient conditions for a “simple” decentralization with consumption externalities2
The epistemic spirit of divinity2
Portfolio concentration, portfolio inertia, and ambiguous correlation2
Interest rate dynamics and commodity prices2
Evolutionary foundation for heterogeneity in risk aversion2
A theory of debt maturity and innovation2
Manipulability in school choice2
Correlation-robust auction design2
Sorting expertise2
Public disclosure and private information acquisition: A global game approach2
Information design in optimal auctions2
Wealth, endogenous collateral quality, and financial crises2
Dynamic consistency and rectangularity for the smooth ambiguity model2
Optimal discriminatory disclosure2
Selling two identical objects2
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