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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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More competition to alleviate poverty? A general equilibrium model and an empirical study17
Should the police give priority to violence within criminal organizations? A personnel economics perspective16
Market concentration and superiority among strategic export subsidy policies with taxation distortion and cost heterogeneity16
Comparative analyses of fiscal sustainability of the budgetary policy rules13
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
The double dividend of relative auditing—Theory and experiments on corporate tax enforcement11
Delegation as a Signal: Implicit Communication With Full Cooperation11
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Environment, public debt, and epidemics9
Optimal redistributive policies by publicly provided inputs and income taxation9
Optimal Timing in Competition for Advantage: A Two‐Stage Contest8
Redistribution with needs8
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Can corruption encourage clean technology transfer?7
Introduction to the special issue on markets, policies, and economic design: Theory and experiments7
Public good provision with participation costs7
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Prospect equality: A force of redistribution5
On the (robust) ex post stability of constitutions5
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Nash equilibria in models of fiscal competition with unemployment5
A spatial theory of urban segregation5
Twin peaks: Expressive externality in group participation5
Weak redistribution and certainty equivalent domination5
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Just Lindahl Taxation—A Welfarist Solution5
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Corrigendum: Heterogeneity, Impatience, and Dynamic Private Provision of a Discrete Public Good4
Transmissible diseases, vaccination, and inequality4
Carrots and Sticks: Collaboration of Taxation and Subsidies in Contests4
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Leadership in Public Good Games and Private Information on Own Social Value Orientation4
Sovereign debt, fiscal policy, and macroeconomic instability3
Control and spread of contagion in networks with global effects3
Vaccination under pessimistic expectations in clinical trials and immunization campaigns3
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Capital depreciation allowances, redistributive taxation, and economic growth3
Fiscal Space and the Supply of Pro‐Government Militias3
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Tax evasion with a conscience3
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Age‐related taxation of bequests in the presence of a dependency risk3
How to Deal with Exchange Rate Risk in Infrastructure and Other Long‐Lived Projects3
Informational roles of pre‐election polls3
Timing of preference submissions under the Boston mechanism3
Unemployment, tax competition, and tax transfer policy3
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Coalitions Improve the Coordination and Provision of Public Goods: Theory and Experimental Evidence3
Counteracting “the tragedy of the commons” in an imperfect world3
Second‐best socially optimal R&D under output spillovers2
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Dynamic policy in the presence of social norms2
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Naïve learning as a coordination device in social networks2
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Climate Policy Under National Commitments and Global Economic Shocks2
Asymmetric regulators in polluting mixed oligopolies: Agency problems and second‐mover advantage2
Editors' Note2
Economies with rights: Efficiency and inequality2
Complainer's Dilemma2
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Norms and Efficiency in a Multi‐Group Society: An Online Experiment2
Welfare reducing vertical integration in a bilateral monopoly under Nash bargaining2
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Social security and longevity risk: An analysis of couples2
Elimination contests with collusive team players2
Social security, bequests, and social comparisons2
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University–firm competition in basic research: Simultaneous versus sequential moves1
The role of vaccine effectiveness on individual vaccination decisions and welfare1
Risk, trust, and altruism in genetic data sharing1
Environmental taxation, information precision, and information sharing1
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Should credit card rewards be taxed?1
Optimal social distancing and the economics of uncertain vaccine arrival1
On Donations: Pure and Impure Altruism1
Presenting objects for random allocation1
Endogenous subsidies for cleaner products: The role of ecofriendly consumers1
Games of Social Interactions With Externalities1
Scale‐dependent and risky returns to savings: Consequences for optimal capital taxation1
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On the Public and Voluntary Provision of Public Goods1
Price and variety in the Salop model1
Public spending, monetary policy and macroeconomic instability1
Ethnic entrepreneurship, assimilation, and integration policy1
Assignment maximization1
Rationed price controls and “prices versus quantities”1
Pricing energy consumption and residential energy‐efficiency investment: An optimal tax approach1
Vaccine and inclusion1
Optimal taxation with positional considerations1
Minimum wage spillover effects and social welfare in a model of stochastic job matching1
Collusion in quality‐segmented markets1
Comparing ad valorem and specific taxes with corporate social responsibility1
Why the Statutory Retirement Age Is Too Low in a Democracy1
Political alienation and voter mobilization in elections1
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Deliberation and Voting: A Matter of Truth or Taste1
Nonrenewable resource use sustainability and public debt1
Social welfare and the unrepresentative representative consumer1
Internal debt and welfare1
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Pension, possible phaseout, and endogenous fertility in general equilibrium1
Politics and income taxes: Progress and progressivity1
Chasing up and locking down the virus: Optimal pandemic interventions within a network1
Limited Farsightedness in Priority‐Based Matching1
Dynamic Volunteer's Dilemma With Procrastinators1
Public expenditure allocation, lobbying, and growth1
In Memoriam: Ngo Van Long (1948–2022)1
Expectational Equilibria and Drèze Equilibria in Many‐to‐One Matching Models1
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Tax competition, public input, and market power0
Social Norms Drivers on Public Good Contributions0
A general rank‐dependent approach for distributional comparisons0
Existence of Equilibria for Shared Goods0
Optimal law enforcement when individuals are either moral or norm followers0
The purity of impure public goods0
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Information design, externalities, and government interventions0
On potential Pareto gains from free trade areas formation0
Tax competition, tax coordination, and e‐commerce: A corrigendum0
Fertility, heterogeneity, and the Golden Rule0
Patent licensing for signaling the cost‐reduction innovation: The case of the insider innovator0
Optimal voting rules for international organizations, with an application to the United Nations0
Green industrial policy, information asymmetry, and repayable advance0
Effects of subsidies on growth and welfare in a quality‐ladder model with elastic labor0
Affective social policy0
Health subsidies, prevention and welfare0
Nonlinear taxation of income and education in the presence of income‐misreporting0
Endogenous timing in tax competition: The effect of asymmetric information0
Vaccine‐Preventable Diseases and Individual Behavior: Deterministic vs Stochastic Outcomes0
Efficiency of the Minimum Approval Mechanism With Heterogeneous Players0
Condorcet Was Wrong, Pareto Was Right: Families, Inheritance and Inequality0
An examination of the effect of inequality on lotteries for funding public goods0
The complementary role of distributive and criminal equity0
The impact of conflicts on climate and migration policy0
Epidemics, vaccines, and health policy0
On the labor market effects of salience of ethnic/racial disputes0
Habits and externalities0
Endogenous property rights, credit market, and economic development0
Matching Versus Raffles as a Fund‐Raising Device0
Persuasion in Networks With Strategic Substitutes0
Voluntary Contributions to a Public Good: When and How Much?0
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Kantian equilibria of a class of Nash bargaining games0
Policy rules and political polarization0
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Introduction to the special issue on new insights into economic epidemiology: Theory and policy0
Stable licensing schemes in technology transfer0
Efficiency and equity: A general equilibrium analysis of rent‐seeking0
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Optimal patent licensing—Two or three‐part tariff0
Stable and efficient networks with neighborhood‐influenced externalities0
Matching soulmates0
The perverse effect of environmental regulation on emissions: The role of product‐mix changes0
Strategic interaction in the market for charitable donations: The role of public funding0
Capital taxation with parental incentives0
Do the Poor Benefit From a Well Defined Tax Regime?0
First‐best health policy in vaccine markets with health and network externalities0
Mergers and Licensing With Horizontal Differentiation0
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Optimal federal transfers during uncoordinated response to a pandemic0
Pareto gains of predonation in monopoly regulation0
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Theory of cultural capital: Productive use of an unproductive activity0
Economic development with deadly communicable diseases and public prevention0
Responsiveness to priority‐based affirmative action policy in school choice0
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Old age or dependence: Which social insurance?0
When is duplication of effort a good thing in law enforcement?0
The Role of Endogenous Timing in Public Goods Provision and Its Implications for Welfare0
Stable coalition structures and power indices for majority voting0
Choosing between imperfect proxies for a corrective tax0
Model with transmission delays for COVID‐19 control: Theory and empirical assessment0
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International coordination of debt rules with time‐inconsistent voters0
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Social Discount Rates Under Persistent Risks: A Theoretical and Numerical Analysis0
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Endogenous leadership and sustainability of enhanced cooperation in a repeated interactions model of tax competition: Endogenous leadership in tax competition0
Taxes, risk taking, and financial stability0
Monopolistic competition, rising markups, and optimal taxation of participation0
The whip and the Bible: Punishment versus internalization0
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Strategic climate policy with endogenous plant location: The role of border carbon adjustments0
Optimal climate and fiscal policy in an OLG economy0
Should product‐specific advertisement be regulated in pharmaceutical markets?0
Using the primal approach to derive the second‐best rules for different public services in a general competitive growth model0
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Binary Self‐Selective Voting Rules0
FDI spillovers, new industry development, and economic growth0
Public infrastructure provision in the presence of terms‐of‐trade effects and tax competition0
Who matters in dynamic coordination problems?0
CvdN Equilibrium and Share Equilibrium in Local Public Good Economies0
Licensing option to reduce rent extraction by the input supplier0
Opacity in bargaining over public good provision0
Winners and losers of the COVID‐19 pandemic: An excess profits tax proposal0
Ambiguity in a pandemic recession, asset prices, and lockdown policy0
Intermediate Condorcet Winners and Losers0
Growth and optimal policies in an R&D‐growth model with imperfect international capital mobility0
Temptation and self‐control for the impure benevolent planner: The case of heterogeneous discounting0
Does Equal Income Maximize Social Welfare When Multiple Pure Public Goods Are Privately Provided?0
Finding Out Who You Are: A Self‐Exploration View of Education0
Incentive pay for policy‐makers?0
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A theory of (de)centralization0
A theory of voluntary testing and self‐isolation in an ongoing pandemic0
Double auction for trading perfect complements0
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Labor‐eliminating technology, wage inequality, and trade protectionism0
Cultural and economic integration of immigrant minorities: Analytical framework and policy implications0
The anti‐tax‐avoidance directive: An initiative to successfully curb profit shifting?0
Sovereign debt assistance and democratic decision‐making0
Lobbying policy makers: Share versus lottery contests0
Merger Policy and the Timing of Killer and Continuation Acquisitions0
Persuading sincere and strategic voters0
Corruption dynamics and political instability0
School Segregation and Outside Options0
Tax competition and phantom FDI0
Contractual Requirements and Bidding Behavior in Public Procurement With Entry0
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Corporate tax cuts in a Schumpeterian growth model with an endogenous market structure0
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The MCPF under the pandemic0
Pareto Improving Reforms in the Presence of Spillovers and Spillbacks0
The Role of Social Signaling and Ethnic Norms in Charitable Giving: A Field Experiment in Vietnam0
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Geographical heterogeneities and externalities in an epidemiological‐macroeconomic framework0
COVID‐19 epidemic and mitigation policies: Positive and normative analyses in a neoclassical growth model0
Ownership Structure and Fiscal Externalities in a System of Cities0
Equity‐settled share‐based payments and their (strategic) use under asymmetric information0
A generalized Hotelling–Downs model with asymmetric candidates0
Externalities, entry bias, and optimal subsidy policy for cleaner environment0
Old‐Age Support Policy Effects on Economic Growth and Fertility0
Positional and conformist effects in voluntary public good provision0
Environmental R&D Tournaments0
A continuous model of strong and weak ties0
Optimal lockdowns for COVID‐19 pandemics: Analyzing the efficiency of sanitary policies in Europe0
Criminal network, leniency, and market externalities0
Political Accountability and the Distortion of Law Enforcement0
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