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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Search theory of imperfect competition with decreasing returns to scale35
Tor-Periphery Insider Networks19
Value computation and modulation: A neuroeconomic theory of self-control as constrained optimization17
Ambiguity in dynamic contracts17
Sequential Bayesian persuasion17
Implications of uncertainty for optimal policies16
Efficiency and surplus distribution in majoritarian reputational bargaining15
Bargaining under almost complete information15
Maxmin expected utility in Savage's framework14
Marital preferences and stable matching in cultural evolution14
Evolutionarily rational mutations in structured populations14
Corrigendum to “Adverse selection without single crossing: Monotone solutions” [J. Econ. Theory 158 (2015) 127–164]14
A microfounded approach to currency substitution and government policy13
A dynamic theory of bank lending, firm entry, and investment fluctuations13
Linear Riley equilibria in quadratic signaling games13
Corrigendum to “Evaluating ambiguous random variables from Choquet to maxmin expected utility” [J. Econ. Theory 192 (2021) 105129]12
Perverse ethical concerns: Misinformation and coordination12
Delegated recruitment and statistical discrimination12
Editorial Board12
Strength of preference over complementary pairs axiomatizes alpha-MEU preferences12
Segmentation and beliefs: A theory of self-fulfilling idiosyncratic risk12
Meritocracy versus diversity11
Strategy-proof and envy-free random assignment11
Editorial Board11
Preference manipulations lead to the uniform rule11
Strategy-proof and envy-free mechanisms for house allocation11
Continuous unimodal maps in economic dynamics: On easily verifiable conditions for topological chaos10
Panics and prices10
Editorial Board10
Bargaining under liquidity constraints: Experimental evidence10
A choice-functional characterization of welfarism10
Communication games, sequential equilibrium, and mediators10
Optimal orchestration of rewards and punishments in rank-order contests10
Structured ambiguity and model misspecification10
Irreversible investment under predictable growth: Why land stays vacant when housing demand is booming10
A theory-based decision model9
Strategic investment and learning with private information9
Optimal monetary policy in production networks with distortions9
A characterization of Cesàro average utility9
Corrigendum to “Asymptotic behavior of Bayesian learners with misspecified models” [J. Econ. Theory 195 (2021) 105260]9
The equilibrium-value convergence for the multiple-partners game9
Distrust in experts and the origins of disagreement9
Editorial Board9
Motivated naivete9
Existence and uniqueness of recursive utilities without boundedness9
Fiscal stimulus with imperfect expectations: Spending vs. tax policy8
Statistical uncertainty and coarse contracts8
Strategyproof social choice when preferences and outcomes may contain ties8
Collective decision through an informed mediator8
Random utility models with ordered types and domains8
Intertemporal preference with loss aversion: Consumption and risk-attitude8
Integrability and identification in multinomial choice models8
Personal power dynamics in bargaining8
The probability of pluralistic ignorance8
The A/B testing problem with Gaussian priors8
Optimal banking with delegated monitoring8
Understanding uncertainty shocks and the role of black swans8
The determination of public debt under both aggregate and idiosyncratic uncertainty8
Corrigendum to “Efficiency and stability under substitutable priorities with ties” [J. Econ. Theory 184 (2019) 104950]8
Incomplete financial markets, the social cost of carbon and constrained efficient carbon pricing8
Monopoly pricing with optimal information7
Asset bubbles, entrepreneurial risks, and economic growth7
Sequential trading with coarse contingencies7
Foreseen risks7
Persuading large investors7
Combining forecasts in the presence of ambiguity over correlation structures7
Biased learning under ambiguous information7
Corrigendum to “Random assignment: Redefining the serial rule” [J. Econ. Theory 158 (2015) 308–318]7
Discovery and equilibrium in games with unawareness7
The normality assumption in coordination games with flexible information acquisition6
Reputation for playing mixed actions: A characterization theorem6
Editorial Board6
Ambiguous information and dilation: An experiment6
Asset pricing with time preference shocks: Existence and uniqueness6
Relationship externalities6
On perfect pairwise stable networks6
Editorial Board6
Detectability, duality, and surplus extraction6
When does centralization undermine adaptation?6
Inventory, market making, and liquidity in OTC markets6
Knowing the informed player's payoffs and simple play in repeated games6
Income inequality and endogenous market structure under directed search6
Making predictions based on data: Holistic and atomistic procedures6
Effects of changes in preferences in moral hazard problems6
Price impact under heterogeneous beliefs and restricted participation6
Corrigendum to “Two-Sided Matching Problems with Externalities” [J. Econ. Theory 70 (1996) 93–108]6
Constrained random matching6
Spatial search6
Persuasion without ex-post commitment6
Bidding in multi-unit auctions under limited information6
Comparing theories of one-shot play out of treatment6
Repeated contracting without commitment5
A complete characterization of infinitely repeated two-player games having computable strategies with no computable best response under limit-of-means payoff5
Adaptive preferences: An evolutionary model of non-expected utility and ambiguity aversion5
Ambiguity, information processing, and financial intermediation5
Data-driven contract design5
In the basic auction model, the optimal reserve price may depend on the number of bidders5
Conflicting objectives in kidney exchange5
Editorial Board5
Pooled testing for quarantine decisions5
Multiple prizes in tournaments with career concerns5
Random quasi-linear utility5
Uncertain product availability in search markets5
Self-accessibility and repeated games with asymmetric discounting5
Sequentially mixed search and equilibrium price dispersion5
Updating confidence in beliefs5
Preference for Knowledge5
Discontinuous and continuous stochastic choice and coordination in the lab4
Learning with limited memory: Bayesianism vs heuristics4
Intermediation in over-the-counter markets with price transparency4
There is no known nonlinear Markov perfect equilibrium strategies for the infinite horizon linear quadratic differential game4
Redistributive fiscal policy and marginal propensities to consume4
Security design without verifiable retention4
Network-based peer monitoring design4
The limit of targeting in networks4
An alternative approach for nonparametric analysis of random utility models4
Frequent monitoring in dynamic contracts4
Shuttle diplomacy4
A lot of ambiguity4
The negative value of private information in illiquid markets4
Gradual college admission4
Moral hazard and subjective evaluation4
Information design for selling search goods and the effect of competition4
Rational inattention when decisions take time4
Foundations of ambiguity models under symmetry: α-MEU and smooth ambiguity4
Regret, responsibility, and randomization: A theory of stochastic choice4
The evolution of risk attitudes with fertility thresholds4
Editorial Board4
On the empirical relevance of correlated equilibrium4
Inefficient labor market sorting4
Wait or act now? Learning dynamics in stopping games4
Symposium Issue on Ambiguity, Robustness, and Model Uncertainty4
Fomenting conflict4
HANK on Speed: Robust Nonlinear Solutions using Automatic Differentiation4
Corrigendum to “Role of linking mechanisms in multitask agency with hidden information” [J. Econ. Theory 145 (2010) 2241–2259]4
Editorial Board4
Editorial Board3
Randomization is optimal in the robust principal-agent problem3
Structural unemployment, underemployment, and secular stagnation3
Insider trading with penalties in continuous time3
Persuasion with Verifiable Information3
Labor markets during pandemics3
The limits of meritocracy3
Revenue effects of ambiguity in multi-unit auctions3
Endogenous liquidity and volatility3
Costly subjective learning3
Consumer heterogeneity and inefficiency in oligopoly markets3
Extrapolative asset pricing3
The strategic decentralization of recruiting3
Corrigendum to “Relation Between a Social Welfare Function and the Gini Index of Income Inequality” Journal of Economic Theory 4 (1972): 98-1003
Implementation in undominated strategies with applications to auction design, public good provision and matching3
On-the-job wage dynamics3
Market versus optimum allocation in open economies3
Opinion aggregation: Borda and Condorcet revisited3
The screening role of market tightness in a competitive search equilibrium with adverse selection3
Endogenous ambiguity and rational miscommunication3
Selecting a winner with external referees3
Information and policing3
Minimal contagious sets: Degree distributional bounds3
Dynamic banking with non-maturing deposits3
Strategic mistakes3
Signaling in dynamic markets with adverse selection3
Logic-based updating3
Widening access in university admissions3
Intertemporal allocation with unknown discounting3
Mechanism design with belief-dependent preferences3
Undominated monopoly regulation3
Farsighted objections and maximality in one-to-one matching problems3
Dynamic information design in an entry game3
On bankruptcy in general equilibrium with uncertainty3
Optimal technology design3
The central bank, the treasury, or the market: Which one determines the price level?3
Cognitive hierarchies for games in extensive form3
Stable allocations in discrete exchange economies3
Virus dynamics with behavioral responses3
Growing attention2
Starting small in project choice: A discrete-time setting with a continuum of types2
When (not) to publicize inspection results2
Designing communication hierarchies2
Bayesian social aggregation with accumulating evidence2
Optimal contingent delegation2
Ambiguity aversion and wealth effects2
Optimal discriminatory disclosure2
Learning efficient equilibria in repeated games2
Haves and have-nots: A theory of economic sufficientarianism2
Deposit insurance, bank regulation, and narrow banking2
Belief-averaging and relative utilitarianism2
Risk aversion with nothing to lose2
Evolutionary foundation for heterogeneity in risk aversion2
Snowballing private information2
The epistemic spirit of divinity2
Optimal market thickness2
Information design through scarcity and social learning2
Cultural transmission with incomplete information2
Comment on “A theoretical foundation of ambiguity measurement” [J. Econ. Theory 187 (2020) 105001]2
Fragility under joint financing: The (moral) hazards of diversification2
A new approach to the uniqueness of equilibrium with CRRA preferences2
Editorial Board2
On the efficiency and fairness of deferred acceptance with single tie-breaking2
Correlation concern2
Efficient risk sharing and separation2
Offshoring and the distribution of skills2
Interest rate dynamics and commodity prices2
Ambiguity under growing awareness2
Wealth, endogenous collateral quality, and financial crises2
Homophily and influence2
Unidirectional incentive compatibility2
Repeated communication with private lying costs2
Generalized perturbed best response dynamics with a continuum of strategies2
Personalized pricing, network effects, and commitment2
Learning about profitability and dynamic cash management2
Insider trading with penalties2
Intermediation as rent extraction2
Public goods, social alternatives, and the Lindahl-VCG relationship2
The analogical foundations of cooperation2
Regulating oligopolistic competition2
Robust pricing under strategic trading2
Competition in costly talk2
Signaling covertly acquired information1
Post-auction investment by financially constrained bidders1
Short-covering bubbles1
Monetary policy and sentiment-driven fluctuations1
Equality in legislative bargaining1
Foundations of market power in monetary economies1
Binary public decisions and undominated mechanisms1
Existence of an equilibrium in arrowian markets for consumption externalities1
New fertility patterns: The role of human versus physical capital1
Branching-independent random utility model1
Binary mechanisms under privacy-preserving noise1
Assignment mechanisms: Common preferences and information acquisition1
A tractable group all-pay auction1
When voters like to be right: An analysis of the Condorcet Jury Theorem with mixed motives1
Achieving safety: Personal, private, and public provision1
The impact of network topology and market structure on pricing1
Collateral and bank screening as complements: A spillover effect1
Incomplete contracts versus communication1
Information spillover in markets with heterogeneous traders1
Coalitional strategic games1
Competition in schedules with cursed traders1
Multiple-switching behavior in choice-list elicitation of risk preference1
The economics of career concerns in teamwork1
Legislative informational lobbying1
The paradox of search intensity1
Inequality, openness, and growth through creative destruction1
Interdistrict school choice: A theory of student assignment1
Commitment and investment distortions under limited liability1
Correlation-robust auction design1
Deadlines and matching1
Editorial Board1
Spontaneous discrimination with endogenous information disclosure1
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