Journal of Public Economic Theory

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Public Economic Theory is 0. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Does Equal Income Maximize Social Welfare When Multiple Pure Public Goods Are Privately Provided?21
Pricing energy consumption and residential energy‐efficiency investment: An optimal tax approach16
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Optimal lockdowns for COVID‐19 pandemics: Analyzing the efficiency of sanitary policies in Europe13
Assurance payments on the coordination of threshold public goods provision: An experimental investigation13
Should the police give priority to violence within criminal organizations? A personnel economics perspective13
Comparative analyses of fiscal sustainability of the budgetary policy rules12
Green industrial policy, information asymmetry, and repayable advance12
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Collusion in quality‐segmented markets10
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The purity of impure public goods9
More competition to alleviate poverty? A general equilibrium model and an empirical study8
Subnational borrowing and bailouts: When the federal government looks at the votes (differently) and its borrowing matters8
Unemployment, tax competition, and tax transfer policy8
The whip and the Bible: Punishment versus internalization8
Opacity in bargaining over public good provision7
Strategic interaction in the market for charitable donations: The role of public funding6
Counteracting “the tragedy of the commons” in an imperfect world5
Old‐Age Support Policy Effects on Economic Growth and Fertility5
Optimal federal transfers during uncoordinated response to a pandemic5
A political foundation of public investment and welfare spending5
Public expenditure allocation, lobbying, and growth5
Market concentration and superiority among strategic export subsidy policies with taxation distortion and cost heterogeneity5
Redistribution under general decision rules5
Minimum wage spillover effects and social welfare in a model of stochastic job matching5
Stable and efficient networks with neighborhood‐influenced externalities5
A general rank‐dependent approach for distributional comparisons5
A continuous model of strong and weak ties4
Political alienation and voter mobilization in elections4
Endogenous subsidies for cleaner products: The role of ecofriendly consumers4
Timing of preference submissions under the Boston mechanism4
Comparing ad valorem and specific taxes with corporate social responsibility4
Tax evasion with a conscience4
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First‐best health policy in vaccine markets with health and network externalities3
How to Deal with Exchange Rate Risk in Infrastructure and Other Long‐Lived Projects3
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Winners and losers of the COVID‐19 pandemic: An excess profits tax proposal3
Optimal patent licensing—Two or three‐part tariff3
Age‐related taxation of bequests in the presence of a dependency risk3
Social Norms Drivers on Public Good Contributions3
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Social welfare and the unrepresentative representative consumer3
Patent licensing for signaling the cost‐reduction innovation: The case of the insider innovator3
Is partial privatization of universities a solution for higher education?3
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Contractual Requirements and Bidding Behavior in Public Procurement With Entry3
Environment, public debt, and epidemics3
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Private‐information group contests with complementarities3
Competition and the risk of bank failure: Breaking with the representative borrower assumption2
Who matters in dynamic coordination problems?2
Free and second‐best entry in oligopolies with network effects2
Asymmetric regulators in polluting mixed oligopolies: Agency problems and second‐mover advantage2
On commodity tax harmonization and public goods provision2
Tax competition, public input, and market power2
Redistribution with needs2
Temptation and self‐control for the impure benevolent planner: The case of heterogeneous discounting2
Assignment maximization2
Politics and income taxes: Progress and progressivity2
Stable licensing schemes in technology transfer2
Price and variety in the Salop model2
Fiscal Space and the Supply of Pro‐Government Militias2
Public spending, monetary policy and macroeconomic instability2
Risk, trust, and altruism in genetic data sharing2
Information design, externalities, and government interventions2
Optimal redistributive policies by publicly provided inputs and income taxation2
Growth and optimal policies in an R&D‐growth model with imperfect international capital mobility2
Theory of cultural capital: Productive use of an unproductive activity2
Strategic climate policy with endogenous plant location: The role of border carbon adjustments2
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The double dividend of relative auditing—Theory and experiments on corporate tax enforcement2
Capital depreciation allowances, redistributive taxation, and economic growth2
Twin peaks: Expressive externality in group participation1
Property rights and long‐run capital1
On the (robust) ex post stability of constitutions1
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Can corruption encourage clean technology transfer?1
Introduction to the special issue on markets, policies, and economic design: Theory and experiments1
Tax competition, tax coordination, and e‐commerce: A corrigendum1
Responsiveness to priority‐based affirmative action policy in school choice1
Public good provision with participation costs1
Welfare reducing vertical integration in a bilateral monopoly under Nash bargaining1
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University–firm competition in basic research: Simultaneous versus sequential moves1
A theory of voluntary testing and self‐isolation in an ongoing pandemic1
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Cultural and economic integration of immigrant minorities: Analytical framework and policy implications1
Deliberation and Voting: A Matter of Truth or Taste1
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Dynamic policy in the presence of social norms1
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Old age or dependence: Which social insurance?1
On the Neutrality of  Profit Taxation in a Mixed Oligopoly1
Social security and longevity risk: An analysis of couples1
Equivalence between fixed fee and ad valorem profit royalty1
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Capital taxation with parental incentives1
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Optimal voting rules for international organizations, with an application to the United Nations1
Games of Social Interactions With Externalities1
Health subsidies, prevention and welfare1
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When is duplication of effort a good thing in law enforcement?1
Public investment criteria under optimal nonlinear income taxation without commitment1
Matching soulmates1
Labor‐eliminating technology, wage inequality, and trade protectionism1
Voting with abstention1
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Mergers and Licensing With Horizontal Differentiation1
Scale‐dependent and risky returns to savings: Consequences for optimal capital taxation1
Naïve learning as a coordination device in social networks0
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The Role of Social Signaling and Ethnic Norms in Charitable Giving: A Field Experiment in Vietnam0
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Using the primal approach to derive the second‐best rules for different public services in a general competitive growth model0
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Habits and externalities0
Optimal law enforcement when individuals are either moral or norm followers0
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Rationed price controls and “prices versus quantities”0
Optimal climate and fiscal policy in an OLG economy0
Positional and conformist effects in voluntary public good provision0
FDI spillovers, new industry development, and economic growth0
Notions of Rank Efficiency for the Random Assignment Problem0
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Elimination contests with collusive team players0
Persuading sincere and strategic voters0
Stable coalition structures and power indices for majority voting0
Epidemics, vaccines, and health policy0
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Choosing between imperfect proxies for a corrective tax0
Incentive pay for policy‐makers?0
How much should we fund the IRS?0
Lobbying policy makers: Share versus lottery contests0
Condorcet Was Wrong, Pareto Was Right: Families, Inheritance and Inequality0
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Prospect equality: A force of redistribution0
Carrots and Sticks: Collaboration of Taxation and Subsidies in Contests0
An examination of the effect of inequality on lotteries for funding public goods0
Licensing option to reduce rent extraction by the input supplier0
Environmental taxation, information precision, and information sharing0
Ambiguity in a pandemic recession, asset prices, and lockdown policy0
Economies with rights: Efficiency and inequality0
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Optimal taxation with positional considerations0
Presenting objects for random allocation0
Economic development with deadly communicable diseases and public prevention0
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Chasing up and locking down the virus: Optimal pandemic interventions within a network0
Should credit card rewards be taxed?0
On potential Pareto gains from free trade areas formation0
Fertility, heterogeneity, and the Golden Rule0
Optimal social distancing and the economics of uncertain vaccine arrival0
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Introduction to the special issue on new insights into economic epidemiology: Theory and policy0
One‐sided bargaining over a finite set of alternatives0
Matching Versus Raffles as a Fund‐Raising Device0
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Pension, possible phaseout, and endogenous fertility in general equilibrium0
The complementary role of distributive and criminal equity0
Complainer's Dilemma0
The MCPF under the pandemic0
Criminal network, leniency, and market externalities0
The impact of medical complications on optimal hospital payment0
Informational roles of pre‐election polls0
A spatial theory of urban segregation0
Affective social policy0
Corporate tax cuts in a Schumpeterian growth model with an endogenous market structure0
Corruption dynamics and political instability0
Pareto Improving Reforms in the Presence of Spillovers and Spillbacks0
Equity‐settled share‐based payments and their (strategic) use under asymmetric information0
Second‐best socially optimal R&D under output spillovers0
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Conflict prevention by Bayesian persuasion0
Monopolistic supply of sorting, inequality, and welfare0
Corrigendum: Heterogeneity, Impatience, and Dynamic Private Provision of a Discrete Public Good0
Nonlinear taxation of income and education in the presence of income‐misreporting0
School Segregation and Outside Options0
Policy rules and political polarization0
Geographical heterogeneities and externalities in an epidemiological‐macroeconomic framework0
Should product‐specific advertisement be regulated in pharmaceutical markets?0
Efficiency and equity: A general equilibrium analysis of rent‐seeking0
The perverse effect of environmental regulation on emissions: The role of product‐mix changes0
Control and spread of contagion in networks with global effects0
Effects of subsidies on growth and welfare in a quality‐ladder model with elastic labor0
Taxes, risk taking, and financial stability0
Endogenous leadership and sustainability of enhanced cooperation in a repeated interactions model of tax competition: Endogenous leadership in tax competition0
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The impact of conflicts on climate and migration policy0
Liberal parentalism0
Nash equilibria in models of fiscal competition with unemployment0
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Vaccine and inclusion0
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Model with transmission delays for COVID‐19 control: Theory and empirical assessment0
On the labor market effects of salience of ethnic/racial disputes0
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Norms and Efficiency in a Multi‐Group Society: An Online Experiment0
Social security, bequests, and social comparisons0
Existence of equilibrium in an overlapping‐generations model with government debt0
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In Memoriam: Ngo Van Long (1948–2022)0
Minimum wages in an automating economy0
Endogenous capital stock and depreciation in the United States0
Long‐term care and myopia: Optimal linear subsidies for private insurance0
Transmissible diseases, vaccination, and inequality0
Sovereign debt assistance and democratic decision‐making0
Is fiscal austerity really self‐defeating?0
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Internal debt and welfare0
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Pareto gains of predonation in monopoly regulation0
Political Accountability and the Distortion of Law Enforcement0
Intermediate Condorcet Winners and Losers0
Endogenous property rights, credit market, and economic development0
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Tax competition and phantom FDI0
Nonrenewable resource use sustainability and public debt0
A generalized Hotelling–Downs model with asymmetric candidates0
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The role of vaccine effectiveness on individual vaccination decisions and welfare0
Persuasion in Networks With Strategic Substitutes0
Monopolistic competition, rising markups, and optimal taxation of participation0
Water allocation, crop choice, and priority services0
A theory of (de)centralization0
Externalities, entry bias, and optimal subsidy policy for cleaner environment0
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International coordination of debt rules with time‐inconsistent voters0
Public infrastructure provision in the presence of terms‐of‐trade effects and tax competition0
Vaccination under pessimistic expectations in clinical trials and immunization campaigns0
Sovereign debt, fiscal policy, and macroeconomic instability0
Endogenous timing in tax competition: The effect of asymmetric information0
Optimal taxation in an endogenous growth model with variable population and public expenditure0
Double auction for trading perfect complements0
VAT and the taxation of rents0
Weak redistribution and certainty equivalent domination0
Ethnic entrepreneurship, assimilation, and integration policy0
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COVID‐19 epidemic and mitigation policies: Positive and normative analyses in a neoclassical growth model0
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