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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Maxmin expected utility in Savage's framework48
Evolutionarily rational mutations in structured populations25
Tor-Periphery Insider Networks24
Corrigendum to “Adverse selection without single crossing: Monotone solutions” [J. Econ. Theory 158 (2015) 127–164]21
Bargaining under almost complete information16
Efficiency and surplus distribution in majoritarian reputational bargaining16
Marital preferences and stable matching in cultural evolution15
Sequential Bayesian persuasion14
The evolution of resilience14
Search theory of imperfect competition with decreasing returns to scale14
Editorial Board13
A dynamic theory of bank lending, firm entry, and investment fluctuations13
Credit conditions, inflation, and unemployment13
A microfounded approach to currency substitution and government policy13
Linear Riley equilibria in quadratic signaling games13
Segmentation and beliefs: A theory of self-fulfilling idiosyncratic risk12
Perverse ethical concerns: Misinformation and coordination12
Preference manipulations lead to the uniform rule12
Strategy-proof and envy-free random assignment11
Optimal orchestration of rewards and punishments in rank-order contests11
Editorial Board11
Delegated recruitment and statistical discrimination11
Strength of preference over complementary pairs axiomatizes alpha-MEU preferences10
Panics and prices10
Strategy-proof and envy-free mechanisms for house allocation10
Credit, money and (pseudo-)anonymity10
The multiple-volunteers principle10
Meritocracy versus diversity10
Corrigendum to “Evaluating ambiguous random variables from Choquet to maxmin expected utility” [J. Econ. Theory 192 (2021) 105129]10
Bargaining under liquidity constraints: Experimental evidence10
Editorial Board9
Incomplete financial markets, the social cost of carbon and constrained efficient carbon pricing9
Optimal monetary policy in production networks with distortions9
Understanding uncertainty shocks and the role of black swans9
Corrigendum to “Asymptotic behavior of Bayesian learners with misspecified models” [J. Econ. Theory 195 (2021) 105260]9
Motivated naivete9
Editorial Board9
Information design for social learning on a recommendation platform9
Irreversible investment under predictable growth: Why land stays vacant when housing demand is booming9
Bad reputation due to incompetent expert9
Random utility models with ordered types and domains9
The A/B testing problem with Gaussian priors9
The equilibrium-value convergence for the multiple-partners game9
Strategic investment and learning with private information9
Integrability and identification in multinomial choice models8
Foreseen risks8
Communication games, sequential equilibrium, and mediators8
Collective decision through an informed mediator8
Personal power dynamics in bargaining8
Monopoly pricing with optimal information8
Optimal banking with delegated monitoring8
A choice-functional characterization of welfarism8
Persuading large investors7
Editorial Board7
Asset bubbles, entrepreneurial risks, and economic growth7
Detectability, duality, and surplus extraction7
Inventory, market making, and liquidity in OTC markets7
Asymmetric optimal auction design with loss-averse bidders7
Effects of changes in preferences in moral hazard problems7
Price impact under heterogeneous beliefs and restricted participation7
Making predictions based on data: Holistic and atomistic procedures7
Corrigendum to “Random assignment: Redefining the serial rule” [J. Econ. Theory 158 (2015) 308–318]7
Statistical uncertainty and coarse contracts7
Fiscal stimulus with imperfect expectations: Spending vs. tax policy7
Corrigendum to “Two-Sided Matching Problems with Externalities” [J. Econ. Theory 70 (1996) 93–108]7
Sequential trading with coarse contingencies7
Comparing theories of one-shot play out of treatment7
Editorial Board6
Bidding in multi-unit auctions under limited information6
On the relationship between damage and deception6
On perfect pairwise stable networks6
Spatial search6
When does centralization undermine adaptation?6
Player strength and effort in contests6
Nominal rigidities, rational inattention, and the optimal monetary policy6
Ambiguous information and dilation: An experiment6
HANK on speed: Robust nonlinear solutions using automatic differentiation5
Reference-dependent choice bracketing5
Repeated contracting without commitment5
Multiple prizes in tournaments with career concerns5
Knowing the informed player's payoffs and simple play in repeated games5
Conflicting objectives in kidney exchange5
Intertemporal bundling5
Blockchain congestion facilitates currency competition5
Self-insurance and market insurance substitutability: An established tenet reconsidered5
Sequential network design5
Asset pricing with time preference shocks: Existence and uniqueness5
A complete characterization of infinitely repeated two-player games having computable strategies with no computable best response under limit-of-means payoff5
Uncertain product availability in search markets5
Persuasion without ex-post commitment5
Adaptive preferences: An evolutionary model of non-expected utility and ambiguity aversion5
Preferences for the resolution of risk and ambiguity5
Random quasi-linear utility5
Auctions with tokens: Monetary policy as a mechanism design choice5
Sequentially mixed search and equilibrium price dispersion5
Relationship externalities5
Ambiguity, information processing, and financial intermediation5
Corrigendum to “Role of linking mechanisms in multitask agency with hidden information” [J. Econ. Theory 145 (2010) 2241–2259]5
Preference for Knowledge5
Cognitive hierarchies for games in extensive form4
Minimal contagious sets: Degree distributional bounds4
The central bank, the treasury, or the market: Which one determines the price level?4
Optimal technology design4
Inefficient labor market sorting4
Network-based peer monitoring design4
An alternative approach for nonparametric analysis of random utility models4
Fomenting conflict4
Costly subjective learning4
The evolution of risk attitudes with fertility thresholds4
Actions and signals4
Shuttle diplomacy4
Dynamic banking with non-maturing deposits4
The negative value of private information in illiquid markets4
There is no known nonlinear Markov perfect equilibrium strategies for the infinite horizon linear quadratic differential game4
Moral hazard and subjective evaluation4
Rational inattention when decisions take time4
Information design for selling search goods and the effect of competition4
Editorial Board4
Wait or act now? Learning dynamics in stopping games4
On the empirical relevance of correlated equilibrium4
Random allocations of multiple objects with incomplete information4
Frequent monitoring in dynamic contracts4
Endogenous liquidity and volatility4
Regret, responsibility, and randomization: A theory of stochastic choice4
Discontinuous and continuous stochastic choice and coordination in the lab4
Redistributive fiscal policy and marginal propensities to consume4
Data-driven contract design4
Information and policing4
Learning with limited memory: Bayesianism vs heuristics4
On bankruptcy in general equilibrium with uncertainty3
Offshoring and the distribution of skills3
Persuasion with verifiable information3
Correlation concern3
Consumer heterogeneity and inefficiency in oligopoly markets3
Signaling in dynamic markets with adverse selection3
On the efficiency and fairness of deferred acceptance with single tie-breaking3
The screening role of market tightness in a competitive search equilibrium with adverse selection3
Farsighted objections and maximality in one-to-one matching problems3
Dynamic information design in an entry game3
Widening access in university admissions3
Insider trading with penalties in continuous time3
Learning efficient equilibria in repeated games3
Public goods, social alternatives, and the Lindahl-VCG relationship3
Implementation in undominated strategies with applications to auction design, public good provision and matching3
Partially constructed sequential equilibrium3
Mechanism design with belief-dependent preferences3
Learning about ambiguous long-term prospects3
Labor markets during pandemics3
Structural unemployment, underemployment, and secular stagnation3
Strategic mistakes3
Editorial Board3
Randomization is optimal in the robust principal-agent problem3
Selecting a winner with external referees3
Market versus optimum allocation in open economies3
Stable allocations in discrete exchange economies3
The strategic decentralization of recruiting3
On-the-job wage dynamics3
Deposit insurance, bank regulation, and narrow banking3
Efficient risk sharing and separation3
Extrapolative asset pricing3
Haves and have-nots: A theory of economic sufficientarianism3
Opinion aggregation: Borda and Condorcet revisited3
Stochastic sorting3
Endogenous ambiguity and rational miscommunication3
The analogical foundations of cooperation3
Virus dynamics with behavioral responses3
Endogenous business cycles in overlapping generations models with time inconsistency3
Which experiments test a model?3
Undominated monopoly regulation3
Revenue effects of ambiguity in multi-unit auctions3
Intertemporal allocation with unknown discounting3
Logic-based updating3
Corrigendum to “Relation Between a Social Welfare Function and the Gini Index of Income Inequality” Journal of Economic Theory 4 (1972): 98-1003
Culture and communication3
Intermediation as rent extraction3
Dynamic consistency and rectangularity for the smooth ambiguity model2
Evolutionary foundation for heterogeneity in risk aversion2
Beliefs and the net worth trap2
The shocks matter: Labor mobility and the welfare cost of a currency union2
Positive and negative selection in bargaining2
Editorial Board2
Comment on “A theoretical foundation of ambiguity measurement” [J. Econ. Theory 187 (2020) 105001]2
Two time-consistent Paretian solutions to the intertemporal resource allocation problem2
Starting small in project choice: A discrete-time setting with a continuum of types2
Mediated talk: An experiment2
Fragility under joint financing: The (moral) hazards of diversification2
A new approach to the uniqueness of equilibrium with CRRA preferences2
Editorial Board2
Bayesian persuasion with costly information acquisition2
Editorial Board2
Modeling machine learning: A cognitive economic approach2
Growing attention2
Existence of an equilibrium in arrowian markets for consumption externalities2
Climate payments: A Coase theorem2
Sufficient conditions for a “simple” decentralization with consumption externalities2
Competition in costly talk2
Automation and top entrepreneurial income inequality2
Recursive Preferences and Ambiguity Attitudes2
Personalized pricing, network effects, and commitment2
Self-evident events and the value of linking2
Interest rate dynamics and commodity prices2
A theory of debt maturity and innovation2
Repeated communication with private lying costs2
Bivariate scoring rules: Unifying the characterizations of positional scoring rules and Kemeny's rule2
Editorial Board2
Homophily and influence2
Information design in optimal auctions2
A population's feasible posterior beliefs2
Optimal discriminatory disclosure2
Public disclosure and private information acquisition: A global game approach2
Wealth, endogenous collateral quality, and financial crises2
Sorting expertise2
Unidirectional incentive compatibility2
Feedback design in games with ambiguity-averse players2
Risk aversion with nothing to lose2
Reputation and the credibility of inflation plans2
Optimal contingent delegation2
Information design through scarcity and social learning2
Endogenous criteria for success2
Learning about profitability and dynamic cash management2
On the voluntary disclosure of redundant information2
Regulating oligopolistic competition2
Strengthening incentives for truth-telling in Majority voting2
The epistemic spirit of divinity2
Time-consistent equilibria in dynamic models with recursive payoffs and behavioral discounting2
Editorial Board2
As strong as the weakest node: The impact of misinformation in social networks2
When (not) to publicize inspection results2
Editorial Board2
Competitive price discrimination, imperfect information, and consumer search2
Comment on “Assignment problems with complementarities” [J. Econ. Theory 165 (2016) 209-241]2
Overborrowing, underborrowing, and macroprudential policy1
Editorial Board1
Informational frictions in funding and credit markets1
Monotone equilibrium in matching markets with signaling1
Editorial Board1
A revealed preference approach to approximate utility maximisation1
Bargaining in small dynamic markets1
Informed principal problems in bilateral trading1
Business cycles fluctuations in three-sector intertemporal equilibrium models1
Stability of strict equilibria in best experienced payoff dynamics: Simple formulas and applications1
Co-essentiality of money and credit: A mechanism-design view1
Corrigendum to “Bubbles and constraints on debt accumulation” [J. Econ. Theory 57 (1992) 245–256]1
Markets for financial innovation1
Contracting and search with heterogeneous principals and agents1
Learning through imitation: An experiment1
Pledge-and-review bargaining1
Market-making with search and information frictions1
Equilibrium social activity during an epidemic1
Optimal epidemic control in equilibrium with imperfect testing and enforcement1
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