Journal of Economic Theory

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Search theory of imperfect competition with decreasing returns to scale32
Monetary policy rules in a non-rational world: A macroeconomic experiment28
A microfounded approach to currency substitution and government policy21
Ambiguity in dynamic contracts20
Sequential Bayesian persuasion18
Efficiency and surplus distribution in majoritarian reputational bargaining18
Bargaining under almost complete information18
Value computation and modulation: A neuroeconomic theory of self-control as constrained optimization17
Linear Riley equilibria in quadratic signaling games16
Implications of uncertainty for optimal policies16
Corrigendum to “Adverse selection without single crossing: Monotone solutions” [J. Econ. Theory 158 (2015) 127–164]15
Evolutionarily rational mutations in structured populations14
Marital preferences and stable matching in cultural evolution14
A dynamic theory of bank lending, firm entry, and investment fluctuations14
Maxmin expected utility in Savage's framework14
Continuous unimodal maps in economic dynamics: On easily verifiable conditions for topological chaos13
Strength of preference over complementary pairs axiomatizes alpha-MEU preferences13
Corrigendum to “Evaluating ambiguous random variables from Choquet to maxmin expected utility” [J. Econ. Theory 192 (2021) 105129]13
Segmentation and beliefs: A theory of self-fulfilling idiosyncratic risk12
Editorial Board12
Delegated recruitment and statistical discrimination12
Preference manipulations lead to the uniform rule12
Optimal orchestration of rewards and punishments in rank-order contests12
Perverse ethical concerns: Misinformation and coordination11
Bargaining under liquidity constraints: Experimental evidence11
Meritocracy versus diversity11
The equilibrium-value convergence for the multiple-partners game10
Strategy-proof and envy-free mechanisms for house allocation10
Editorial Board10
A choice-functional characterization of welfarism10
Communication games, sequential equilibrium, and mediators10
Panics and prices10
Optimal monetary policy in production networks with distortions10
Strategy-proof and envy-free random assignment10
Structured ambiguity and model misspecification10
A theory-based decision model9
Irreversible investment under predictable growth: Why land stays vacant when housing demand is booming9
Editorial Board9
Random utility models with ordered types and domains9
Corrigendum to “Asymptotic behavior of Bayesian learners with misspecified models” [J. Econ. Theory 195 (2021) 105260]9
A characterization of Cesàro average utility9
Existence and uniqueness of recursive utilities without boundedness9
Editorial Board9
Motivated naivete9
Strategic investment and learning with private information9
Distrust in experts and the origins of disagreement8
Understanding uncertainty shocks and the role of black swans8
Biased learning under ambiguous information8
The probability of pluralistic ignorance8
Discovery and equilibrium in games with unawareness8
The A/B testing problem with Gaussian priors8
Optimal banking with delegated monitoring8
Corrigendum to “Efficiency and stability under substitutable priorities with ties” [J. Econ. Theory 184 (2019) 104950]8
Strategyproof social choice when preferences and outcomes may contain ties8
Asset bubbles, entrepreneurial risks, and economic growth8
Foreseen risks8
Intertemporal preference with loss aversion: Consumption and risk-attitude8
The determination of public debt under both aggregate and idiosyncratic uncertainty8
Personal power dynamics in bargaining8
Persuading large investors8
Integrability and identification in multinomial choice models7
Statistical uncertainty and coarse contracts7
Bidding in multi-unit auctions under limited information7
Fiscal stimulus with imperfect expectations: Spending vs. tax policy7
Collective decision through an informed mediator7
Corrigendum to “Random assignment: Redefining the serial rule” [J. Econ. Theory 158 (2015) 308–318]7
Monopoly pricing with optimal information7
Sequential trading with coarse contingencies7
Comparing theories of one-shot play out of treatment6
Detectability, duality, and surplus extraction6
Inventory, market making, and liquidity in OTC markets6
Corrigendum to “Two-Sided Matching Problems with Externalities” [J. Econ. Theory 70 (1996) 93–108]6
Effects of changes in preferences in moral hazard problems6
The normality assumption in coordination games with flexible information acquisition6
Ambiguous information and dilation: An experiment6
Reputation for playing mixed actions: A characterization theorem6
Spatial search6
Price impact under heterogeneous beliefs and restricted participation6
Making predictions based on data: Holistic and atomistic procedures6
Constrained random matching6
When does centralization undermine adaptation?6
Combining forecasts in the presence of ambiguity over correlation structures6
Editorial Board6
On perfect pairwise stable networks6
Editorial Board6
Repeated contracting without commitment5
Pooled testing for quarantine decisions5
Sequential auctions with ambiguity5
Income inequality and endogenous market structure under directed search5
Editorial Board5
A complete characterization of infinitely repeated two-player games having computable strategies with no computable best response under limit-of-means payoff5
Asset pricing with time preference shocks: Existence and uniqueness5
Knowing the informed player's payoffs and simple play in repeated games5
Sequentially mixed search and equilibrium price dispersion5
Conflicting objectives in kidney exchange5
Self-accessibility and repeated games with asymmetric discounting5
Multiple prizes in tournaments with career concerns5
Updating confidence in beliefs5
Adaptive preferences: An evolutionary model of non-expected utility and ambiguity aversion5
Relationship externalities5
In the basic auction model, the optimal reserve price may depend on the number of bidders5
Uncertain product availability in search markets5
Information acquisition and provision in school choice: An experimental study5
Persuasion without ex-post commitment4
The limit of targeting in networks4
Random quasi-linear utility4
Corrigendum to “Role of linking mechanisms in multitask agency with hidden information” [J. Econ. Theory 145 (2010) 2241–2259]4
Fomenting conflict4
Symposium Issue on Ambiguity, Robustness, and Model Uncertainty4
Regret, responsibility, and randomization: A theory of stochastic choice4
An alternative approach for nonparametric analysis of random utility models4
Stock-based pay, liquidity, and the role of market making4
Preference for Knowledge4
Data-driven contract design4
Rational inattention when decisions take time4
Network-based peer monitoring design4
Editorial Board4
The evolution of risk attitudes with fertility thresholds4
Discontinuous and continuous stochastic choice and coordination in the lab4
Information design for selling search goods and the effect of competition4
A unified characterization of the randomized strategy-proof rules4
Ambiguity, information processing, and financial intermediation4
Foundations of ambiguity models under symmetry: α-MEU and smooth ambiguity4
Security design without verifiable retention4
Moral hazard and subjective evaluation4
Redistributive fiscal policy and marginal propensities to consume4
Dynamic information design in an entry game3
Selecting a winner with external referees3
Intermediation in over-the-counter markets with price transparency3
Editorial Board3
Wait or act now? Learning dynamics in stopping games3
Cognitive hierarchies for games in extensive form3
Inefficient labor market sorting3
A lot of ambiguity3
Dynamic banking with non-maturing deposits3
Optimal technology design3
Undominated monopoly regulation3
Revenue effects of ambiguity in multi-unit auctions3
Stable allocations in discrete exchange economies3
The negative value of private information in illiquid markets3
On the empirical relevance of correlated equilibrium3
Minimal contagious sets: Degree distributional bounds3
Information and policing3
Gradual college admission3
There is no known nonlinear Markov perfect equilibrium strategies for the infinite horizon linear quadratic differential game3
Endogenous liquidity and volatility3
Insider trading with penalties in continuous time3
Consumer heterogeneity and inefficiency in oligopoly markets3
Virus dynamics with behavioral responses3
The screening role of market tightness in a competitive search equilibrium with adverse selection3
Intertemporal allocation with unknown discounting3
Learning with limited memory: Bayesianism vs heuristics3
Shuttle diplomacy3
The central bank, the treasury, or the market: Which one determines the price level?3
Equal-quantile rules in resource allocation with uncertain needs3
Costly subjective learning3
Frequent monitoring in dynamic contracts3
Market versus optimum allocation in open economies3
Personalized pricing, network effects, and commitment2
Deposit insurance, bank regulation, and narrow banking2
Corrigendum to “Relation Between a Social Welfare Function and the Gini Index of Income Inequality” Journal of Economic Theory 4 (1972): 98-1002
Logic-based updating2
On bankruptcy in general equilibrium with uncertainty2
The limits of meritocracy2
The strategic decentralization of recruiting2
Farsighted objections and maximality in one-to-one matching problems2
Structural unemployment, underemployment, and secular stagnation2
Interest rate dynamics and commodity prices2
On-the-job wage dynamics2
Editorial Board2
Haves and have-nots: A theory of economic sufficientarianism2
Intermediation as rent extraction2
Efficient risk sharing and separation2
Working to learn2
Labor markets during pandemics2
Widening access in university admissions2
Mechanism design with belief-dependent preferences2
Strategic mistakes2
Editorial Board2
Endogenous ambiguity and rational miscommunication2
English versus Vickrey auctions with loss-averse bidders2
Fragility under joint financing: The (moral) hazards of diversification2
Signaling in dynamic markets with adverse selection2
Insider trading with penalties2
Correlation concern2
Offshoring and the distribution of skills2
Mixed strategies and preference for randomization in games with ambiguity averse agents2
Public goods, social alternatives, and the Lindahl-VCG relationship2
Implementation in undominated strategies with applications to auction design, public good provision and matching2
On the efficiency and fairness of deferred acceptance with single tie-breaking2
Editorial Board2
Extrapolative asset pricing2
Consistent rights on property spaces2
Opinion aggregation: Borda and Condorcet revisited2
The analogical foundations of cooperation2
Randomization is optimal in the robust principal-agent problem2
Risk aversion with nothing to lose2
Learning efficient equilibria in repeated games2
Editorial Board1
Comment on “A theoretical foundation of ambiguity measurement” [J. Econ. Theory 187 (2020) 105001]1
Aggregation of opinions in networks of individuals and collectives1
Generalized perturbed best response dynamics with a continuum of strategies1
Portfolio concentration, portfolio inertia, and ambiguous correlation1
A dynamic Roy model of academic specialization1
Signaling covertly acquired information1
Editorial Board1
Correlation-robust auction design1
Non-Bayesian updating in a social learning experiment1
A new approach to the uniqueness of equilibrium with CRRA preferences1
Modeling machine learning: A cognitive economic approach1
Consistency of the doctor-optimal equilibrium price vector in job-matching markets1
Time-consistent equilibria in dynamic models with recursive payoffs and behavioral discounting1
On the voluntary disclosure of redundant information1
Repeated communication with private lying costs1
Selling two identical objects1
Belief-averaging and relative utilitarianism1
Editorial Board1
Learning about profitability and dynamic cash management1
Hidden testing and selective disclosure of evidence1
Reputation and the credibility of inflation plans1
Editorial Board1
As strong as the weakest node: The impact of misinformation in social networks1
Existence of an equilibrium in arrowian markets for consumption externalities1
Public disclosure and private information acquisition: A global game approach1
Ambiguity aversion and wealth effects1
Two time-consistent Paretian solutions to the intertemporal resource allocation problem1
Robust pricing under strategic trading1
Heterogeneity, decentralized trade, and the long-run real effects of inflation1
Optimal discriminatory disclosure1
Self-evident events and the value of linking1
Speculative trade under ambiguity1
Starting small in project choice: A discrete-time setting with a continuum of types1
Editorial Board1
Information design through scarcity and social learning1
Sufficient conditions for a “simple” decentralization with consumption externalities1
Dynamic consistency and rectangularity for the smooth ambiguity model1
Mediated talk: An experiment1
Beliefs and the net worth trap1
Manipulability in school choice1
Information design in optimal auctions1
Unemployment risks and intra-household insurance1
Goodwill in communication1
Regulating oligopolistic competition1
A population's feasible posterior beliefs1
Optimal contingent delegation1
Monitoring and incentives under multiple-bank lending: The role of collusive threats1
Endogenous criteria for success1
Bayesian social aggregation with accumulating evidence1
Far above others1
Disclosure, welfare and adverse selection1
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