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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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More competition to alleviate poverty? A general equilibrium model and an empirical study16
Market concentration and superiority among strategic export subsidy policies with taxation distortion and cost heterogeneity15
Should the police give priority to violence within criminal organizations? A personnel economics perspective14
Assurance payments on the coordination of threshold public goods provision: An experimental investigation13
Subnational borrowing and bailouts: When the federal government looks at the votes (differently) and its borrowing matters13
Comparative analyses of fiscal sustainability of the budgetary policy rules13
Delegation as a Signal: Implicit Communication With Full Cooperation13
The double dividend of relative auditing—Theory and experiments on corporate tax enforcement11
Environment, public debt, and epidemics10
Optimal redistributive policies by publicly provided inputs and income taxation10
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Redistribution with needs9
Just Lindahl Taxation—A Welfarist Solution8
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Introduction to the special issue on markets, policies, and economic design: Theory and experiments8
Public good provision with participation costs8
Can corruption encourage clean technology transfer?7
On the (robust) ex post stability of constitutions7
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Transmissible diseases, vaccination, and inequality6
Twin peaks: Expressive externality in group participation6
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Vaccination under pessimistic expectations in clinical trials and immunization campaigns5
Leadership in Public Good Games and Private Information on Own Social Value Orientation5
Nash equilibria in models of fiscal competition with unemployment5
A spatial theory of urban segregation5
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Carrots and Sticks: Collaboration of Taxation and Subsidies in Contests5
Sovereign debt, fiscal policy, and macroeconomic instability5
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Weak redistribution and certainty equivalent domination5
Corrigendum: Heterogeneity, Impatience, and Dynamic Private Provision of a Discrete Public Good5
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Prospect equality: A force of redistribution5
Informational roles of pre‐election polls4
Control and spread of contagion in networks with global effects4
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Counteracting “the tragedy of the commons” in an imperfect world3
Unemployment, tax competition, and tax transfer policy3
Age‐related taxation of bequests in the presence of a dependency risk3
On the Neutrality of  Profit Taxation in a Mixed Oligopoly3
Climate Policy Under National Commitments and Global Economic Shocks3
Asymmetric regulators in polluting mixed oligopolies: Agency problems and second‐mover advantage3
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Is partial privatization of universities a solution for higher education?3
Fiscal Space and the Supply of Pro‐Government Militias3
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Welfare reducing vertical integration in a bilateral monopoly under Nash bargaining3
How to Deal with Exchange Rate Risk in Infrastructure and Other Long‐Lived Projects3
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Tax evasion with a conscience3
Timing of preference submissions under the Boston mechanism3
Capital depreciation allowances, redistributive taxation, and economic growth3
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Dynamic policy in the presence of social norms3
Pension, possible phaseout, and endogenous fertility in general equilibrium2
Complainer's Dilemma2
Social security, bequests, and social comparisons2
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Dynamic Volunteer's Dilemma With Procrastinators2
Should credit card rewards be taxed?2
Presenting objects for random allocation2
Second‐best socially optimal R&D under output spillovers2
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Social security and longevity risk: An analysis of couples2
Norms and Efficiency in a Multi‐Group Society: An Online Experiment2
Economies with rights: Efficiency and inequality2
Optimal taxation with positional considerations2
Chasing up and locking down the virus: Optimal pandemic interventions within a network2
Elimination contests with collusive team players2
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Naïve learning as a coordination device in social networks2
Water allocation, crop choice, and priority services2
Optimal social distancing and the economics of uncertain vaccine arrival2
Why the Statutory Retirement Age Is Too Low in a Democracy1
Deliberation and Voting: A Matter of Truth or Taste1
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Collusion in quality‐segmented markets1
Social welfare and the unrepresentative representative consumer1
Political alienation and voter mobilization in elections1
Risk, trust, and altruism in genetic data sharing1
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Internal debt and welfare1
Rationed price controls and “prices versus quantities”1
Minimum wages in an automating economy1
Assignment maximization1
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Games of Social Interactions With Externalities1
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Private‐information group contests with complementarities1
On the Public and Voluntary Provision of Public Goods1
University–firm competition in basic research: Simultaneous versus sequential moves1
Public expenditure allocation, lobbying, and growth1
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Comparing ad valorem and specific taxes with corporate social responsibility1
The impact of medical complications on optimal hospital payment1
Environmental taxation, information precision, and information sharing1
Endogenous subsidies for cleaner products: The role of ecofriendly consumers1
A political foundation of public investment and welfare spending1
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In Memoriam: Ngo Van Long (1948–2022)1
Scale‐dependent and risky returns to savings: Consequences for optimal capital taxation1
Expectational Equilibria and Drèze Equilibria in Many‐to‐One Matching Models1
Public spending, monetary policy and macroeconomic instability1
Minimum wage spillover effects and social welfare in a model of stochastic job matching1
Politics and income taxes: Progress and progressivity1
Pricing energy consumption and residential energy‐efficiency investment: An optimal tax approach1
Price and variety in the Salop model1
The role of vaccine effectiveness on individual vaccination decisions and welfare1
Ethnic entrepreneurship, assimilation, and integration policy1
Nonrenewable resource use sustainability and public debt1
Vaccine and inclusion1
Redistribution under general decision rules1
Tax competition and phantom FDI1
Cultural and economic integration of immigrant minorities: Analytical framework and policy implications0
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First‐best health policy in vaccine markets with health and network externalities0
Temptation and self‐control for the impure benevolent planner: The case of heterogeneous discounting0
Matching soulmates0
Kantian equilibria of a class of Nash bargaining games0
Information design, externalities, and government interventions0
Old‐Age Support Policy Effects on Economic Growth and Fertility0
Voting with abstention0
Social Norms Drivers on Public Good Contributions0
On commodity tax harmonization and public goods provision0
Growth and optimal policies in an R&D‐growth model with imperfect international capital mobility0
Endogenous property rights, credit market, and economic development0
Sovereign debt assistance and democratic decision‐making0
Positional and conformist effects in voluntary public good provision0
Pareto Improving Reforms in the Presence of Spillovers and Spillbacks0
International coordination of debt rules with time‐inconsistent voters0
Habits and externalities0
Double auction for trading perfect complements0
When is duplication of effort a good thing in law enforcement?0
Epidemics, vaccines, and health policy0
Optimal climate and fiscal policy in an OLG economy0
COVID‐19 epidemic and mitigation policies: Positive and normative analyses in a neoclassical growth model0
Stable coalition structures and power indices for majority voting0
Matching Versus Raffles as a Fund‐Raising Device0
Efficiency and equity: A general equilibrium analysis of rent‐seeking0
Condorcet Was Wrong, Pareto Was Right: Families, Inheritance and Inequality0
Using the primal approach to derive the second‐best rules for different public services in a general competitive growth model0
Taxes, risk taking, and financial stability0
Monopolistic competition, rising markups, and optimal taxation of participation0
A generalized Hotelling–Downs model with asymmetric candidates0
Model with transmission delays for COVID‐19 control: Theory and empirical assessment0
Public infrastructure provision in the presence of terms‐of‐trade effects and tax competition0
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Equity‐settled share‐based payments and their (strategic) use under asymmetric information0
Persuasion in Networks With Strategic Substitutes0
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Winners and losers of the COVID‐19 pandemic: An excess profits tax proposal0
Licensing option to reduce rent extraction by the input supplier0
Affective social policy0
Contractual Requirements and Bidding Behavior in Public Procurement With Entry0
Capital taxation with parental incentives0
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A general rank‐dependent approach for distributional comparisons0
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Environmental R&D Tournaments0
The purity of impure public goods0
Optimal patent licensing—Two or three‐part tariff0
A theory of voluntary testing and self‐isolation in an ongoing pandemic0
Health subsidies, prevention and welfare0
Theory of cultural capital: Productive use of an unproductive activity0
Opacity in bargaining over public good provision0
Responsiveness to priority‐based affirmative action policy in school choice0
The complementary role of distributive and criminal equity0
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Policy rules and political polarization0
An examination of the effect of inequality on lotteries for funding public goods0
Optimal law enforcement when individuals are either moral or norm followers0
Political Accountability and the Distortion of Law Enforcement0
The MCPF under the pandemic0
Effects of subsidies on growth and welfare in a quality‐ladder model with elastic labor0
Optimal voting rules for international organizations, with an application to the United Nations0
Green industrial policy, information asymmetry, and repayable advance0
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Economic development with deadly communicable diseases and public prevention0
Should product‐specific advertisement be regulated in pharmaceutical markets?0
Labor‐eliminating technology, wage inequality, and trade protectionism0
Externalities, entry bias, and optimal subsidy policy for cleaner environment0
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Lobbying policy makers: Share versus lottery contests0
The perverse effect of environmental regulation on emissions: The role of product‐mix changes0
Ambiguity in a pandemic recession, asset prices, and lockdown policy0
Introduction to the special issue on new insights into economic epidemiology: Theory and policy0
Equivalence between fixed fee and ad valorem profit royalty0
Nonlinear taxation of income and education in the presence of income‐misreporting0
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Tax competition, public input, and market power0
FDI spillovers, new industry development, and economic growth0
Intermediate Condorcet Winners and Losers0
Who matters in dynamic coordination problems?0
Finding Out Who You Are: A Self‐Exploration View of Education0
Geographical heterogeneities and externalities in an epidemiological‐macroeconomic framework0
Does Equal Income Maximize Social Welfare When Multiple Pure Public Goods Are Privately Provided?0
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Endogenous timing in tax competition: The effect of asymmetric information0
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A continuous model of strong and weak ties0
Tax competition, tax coordination, and e‐commerce: A corrigendum0
A theory of (de)centralization0
Patent licensing for signaling the cost‐reduction innovation: The case of the insider innovator0
Strategic interaction in the market for charitable donations: The role of public funding0
Vaccine‐Preventable Diseases and Individual Behavior: Deterministic vs Stochastic Outcomes0
Incentive pay for policy‐makers?0
Old age or dependence: Which social insurance?0
Choosing between imperfect proxies for a corrective tax0
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Monopolistic supply of sorting, inequality, and welfare0
Endogenous leadership and sustainability of enhanced cooperation in a repeated interactions model of tax competition: Endogenous leadership in tax competition0
Strategic climate policy with endogenous plant location: The role of border carbon adjustments0
Persuading sincere and strategic voters0
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Liberal parentalism0
The Role of Social Signaling and Ethnic Norms in Charitable Giving: A Field Experiment in Vietnam0
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The impact of conflicts on climate and migration policy0
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Conflict prevention by Bayesian persuasion0
On potential Pareto gains from free trade areas formation0
How much should we fund the IRS?0
School Segregation and Outside Options0
One‐sided bargaining over a finite set of alternatives0
The anti‐tax‐avoidance directive: An initiative to successfully curb profit shifting?0
Pareto gains of predonation in monopoly regulation0
CvdN Equilibrium and Share Equilibrium in Local Public Good Economies0
Notions of Rank Efficiency for the Random Assignment Problem0
Fertility, heterogeneity, and the Golden Rule0
Optimal lockdowns for COVID‐19 pandemics: Analyzing the efficiency of sanitary policies in Europe0
Criminal network, leniency, and market externalities0
Corruption dynamics and political instability0
Mergers and Licensing With Horizontal Differentiation0
On the labor market effects of salience of ethnic/racial disputes0
Optimal federal transfers during uncoordinated response to a pandemic0
Stable licensing schemes in technology transfer0
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