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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Evolutionarily rational mutations in structured populations153
Maxmin expected utility in Savage's framework51
Implications of uncertainty for optimal policies30
Search theory of imperfect competition with decreasing returns to scale28
Marital preferences and stable matching in cultural evolution21
Corrigendum to “Adverse selection without single crossing: Monotone solutions” [J. Econ. Theory 158 (2015) 127–164]19
Linear Riley equilibria in quadratic signaling games18
Value computation and modulation: A neuroeconomic theory of self-control as constrained optimization18
A dynamic theory of bank lending, firm entry, and investment fluctuations17
A microfounded approach to currency substitution and government policy16
Bargaining under almost complete information16
Monetary policy rules in a non-rational world: A macroeconomic experiment15
Sequential Bayesian persuasion15
Ambiguity in dynamic contracts14
Efficiency and surplus distribution in majoritarian reputational bargaining14
Preference manipulations lead to the uniform rule13
Panics and prices13
Strategy-proof and envy-free random assignment13
Delegated recruitment and statistical discrimination13
Corrigendum to “Evaluating ambiguous random variables from Choquet to maxmin expected utility” [J. Econ. Theory 192 (2021) 105129]13
Structured ambiguity and model misspecification13
Segmentation and beliefs: A theory of self-fulfilling idiosyncratic risk13
Strategy-proof and envy-free mechanisms for house allocation13
Optimal orchestration of rewards and punishments in rank-order contests12
Editorial Board12
Continuous unimodal maps in economic dynamics: On easily verifiable conditions for topological chaos12
Perverse ethical concerns: Misinformation and coordination12
Motivated naivete11
Bargaining under liquidity constraints: Experimental evidence11
Communication games, sequential equilibrium, and mediators11
Editorial Board11
Meritocracy versus diversity11
Strength of preference over complementary pairs axiomatizes alpha-MEU preferences11
Understanding uncertainty shocks and the role of black swans10
The equilibrium-value convergence for the multiple-partners game10
A choice-functional characterization of welfarism10
Corrigendum to “Asymptotic behavior of Bayesian learners with misspecified models” [J. Econ. Theory 195 (2021) 105260]10
Irreversible investment under predictable growth: Why land stays vacant when housing demand is booming10
A theory-based decision model10
Existence and uniqueness of recursive utilities without boundedness10
Editorial Board9
Confounding dynamics9
The A/B testing problem with Gaussian priors9
Corrigendum to “Efficiency and stability under substitutable priorities with ties” [J. Econ. Theory 184 (2019) 104950]9
The probability of pluralistic ignorance9
Editorial Board9
Strategic investment and learning with private information9
Random utility models with ordered types and domains9
Integrability and identification in multinomial choice models9
Optimal monetary policy in production networks with distortions9
Intertemporal preference with loss aversion: Consumption and risk-attitude9
A characterization of Cesàro average utility9
Distrust in experts and the origins of disagreement9
Fiscal stimulus with imperfect expectations: Spending vs. tax policy9
Vertical contracting with endogenous market structure8
Persuading large investors8
Collective decision through an informed mediator8
Optimal banking with delegated monitoring8
Monopoly pricing with optimal information8
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Foreseen risks8
Statistical uncertainty and coarse contracts8
Internal and external effects of social distancing in a pandemic8
Biased learning under ambiguous information8
Strategyproof social choice when preferences and outcomes may contain ties8
Asset bubbles, entrepreneurial risks, and economic growth8
Personal power dynamics in bargaining8
The determination of public debt under both aggregate and idiosyncratic uncertainty8
Discovery and equilibrium in games with unawareness8
Ambiguous information and dilation: An experiment7
Sequential trading with coarse contingencies7
Corrigendum to “Two-Sided Matching Problems with Externalities” [J. Econ. Theory 70 (1996) 93–108]7
Combining forecasts in the presence of ambiguity over correlation structures7
On perfect pairwise stable networks7
Effects of changes in preferences in moral hazard problems7
Constrained random matching7
Price impact under heterogeneous beliefs and restricted participation7
Inventory, market making, and liquidity in OTC markets7
Comparing theories of one-shot play out of treatment7
Corrigendum to “Random assignment: Redefining the serial rule” [J. Econ. Theory 158 (2015) 308–318]7
Reputation for playing mixed actions: A characterization theorem7
The normality assumption in coordination games with flexible information acquisition7
Bidding in multi-unit auctions under limited information7
Detectability, duality, and surplus extraction7
Ambiguity, information processing, and financial intermediation6
Income inequality and endogenous market structure under directed search6
Spatial search6
Sequentially mixed search and equilibrium price dispersion6
Pooled testing for quarantine decisions6
Conflicting objectives in kidney exchange6
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Knowing the informed player's payoffs and simple play in repeated games6
Self-accessibility and repeated games with asymmetric discounting6
When does centralization undermine adaptation?6
Asset pricing with time preference shocks: Existence and uniqueness6
Relationship externalities6
Updating confidence in beliefs6
A complete characterization of infinitely repeated two-player games having computable strategies with no computable best response under limit-of-means payoff6
Making predictions based on data: Holistic and atomistic procedures6
Repeated contracting without commitment6
Information acquisition and provision in school choice: An experimental study6
Multiple prizes in tournaments with career concerns6
Random quasi-linear utility5
Corrigendum to “Role of linking mechanisms in multitask agency with hidden information” [J. Econ. Theory 145 (2010) 2241–2259]5
In the basic auction model, the optimal reserve price may depend on the number of bidders5
Uncertain product availability in search markets5
Rational inattention when decisions take time5
Preference for Knowledge5
Symposium Issue on Ambiguity, Robustness, and Model Uncertainty5
Fomenting conflict5
Stability and venture structures in multilateral matching5
Information design for selling search goods and the effect of competition5
Sequential auctions with ambiguity5
Data-driven contract design5
The limit of targeting in networks5
Editorial Board5
Regret, responsibility, and randomization: A theory of stochastic choice5
Network-based peer monitoring design5
A unified characterization of the randomized strategy-proof rules5
Stock-based pay, liquidity, and the role of market making5
Adaptive preferences: An evolutionary model of non-expected utility and ambiguity aversion5
Persuasion without ex-post commitment5
Foundations of ambiguity models under symmetry: α-MEU and smooth ambiguity5
Security design without verifiable retention5
There is no known nonlinear Markov perfect equilibrium strategies for the infinite horizon linear quadratic differential game5
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Shuttle diplomacy4
On the empirical relevance of correlated equilibrium4
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Minimal contagious sets: Degree distributional bounds4
Information and policing4
A lot of ambiguity4
Discontinuous and continuous stochastic choice and coordination in the lab4
The evolution of risk attitudes with fertility thresholds4
Wait or act now? Learning dynamics in stopping games4
Frequent monitoring in dynamic contracts4
Stable allocations in discrete exchange economies4
Consistent rights on property spaces4
Costly subjective learning4
The central bank, the treasury, or the market: Which one determines the price level?4
Optimal technology design4
The negative value of private information in illiquid markets4
Moral hazard and subjective evaluation4
An alternative approach for nonparametric analysis of random utility models4
Equal-quantile rules in resource allocation with uncertain needs4
Rational inattention and the monotone likelihood ratio property4
Selecting a winner with external referees4
The screening role of market tightness in a competitive search equilibrium with adverse selection4
Extrapolative asset pricing4
Learning with limited memory: Bayesianism vs heuristics4
Dynamic banking with non-maturing deposits4
Intermediation in over-the-counter markets with price transparency4
Inefficient labor market sorting4
Redistributive fiscal policy and marginal propensities to consume4
Endogenous liquidity and volatility4
Gradual college admission4
Cognitive hierarchies for games in extensive form4
Farsighted objections and maximality in one-to-one matching problems4
Public goods, social alternatives, and the Lindahl-VCG relationship3
On-the-job wage dynamics3
Strategic disaggregation in matching markets3
Learning efficient equilibria in repeated games3
Structural unemployment, underemployment, and secular stagnation3
Repeated communication with private lying costs3
Opinion aggregation: Borda and Condorcet revisited3
Market versus optimum allocation in open economies3
Endogenous ambiguity and rational miscommunication3
The limits of meritocracy3
Implementation in undominated strategies with applications to auction design, public good provision and matching3
The strategic decentralization of recruiting3
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Learning about profitability and dynamic cash management3
Working to learn3
The analogical foundations of cooperation3
Interest rate dynamics and commodity prices3
Offshoring and the distribution of skills3
Multidimensional bargaining and posted prices3
Fragility under joint financing: The (moral) hazards of diversification3
Correlation concern3
Logic-based updating3
Disclosure, welfare and adverse selection3
Mechanism design with belief-dependent preferences3
Insider trading with penalties3
English versus Vickrey auctions with loss-averse bidders3
Undominated monopoly regulation3
Dynamic information design in an entry game3
Intertemporal allocation with unknown discounting3
Labor markets during pandemics3
Efficient risk sharing and separation3
Bayesian social aggregation with accumulating evidence3
Corrigendum to “Relation Between a Social Welfare Function and the Gini Index of Income Inequality” Journal of Economic Theory 4 (1972): 98-1003
Generalized perturbed best response dynamics with a continuum of strategies3
A new approach to the uniqueness of equilibrium with CRRA preferences3
On the efficiency and fairness of deferred acceptance with single tie-breaking3
Personalized pricing, network effects, and commitment3
Intermediation as rent extraction3
Mixed strategies and preference for randomization in games with ambiguity averse agents3
Cultural transmission with incomplete information3
Haves and have-nots: A theory of economic sufficientarianism3
Signaling in dynamic markets with adverse selection3
Ambiguity aversion and wealth effects3
Virus dynamics with behavioral responses3
Optimal contingent delegation3
Insider trading with penalties in continuous time3
Consumer heterogeneity and inefficiency in oligopoly markets3
Strategic mistakes3
Revenue effects of ambiguity in multi-unit auctions3
Randomization is optimal in the robust principal-agent problem3
Risk aversion with nothing to lose3
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Information design through scarcity and social learning3
Robust pricing under strategic trading3
On bankruptcy in general equilibrium with uncertainty3
Consistency of the doctor-optimal equilibrium price vector in job-matching markets3
Deposit insurance, bank regulation, and narrow banking3
Widening access in university admissions3
Starting small in project choice: A discrete-time setting with a continuum of types3
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Correlation-robust auction design2
As strong as the weakest node: The impact of misinformation in social networks2
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Hidden testing and selective disclosure of evidence2
A theory of debt maturity and innovation2
Feedback design in games with ambiguity-averse players2
Selling two identical objects2
Plasticity of strategic sophistication in interactive decision-making2
Bivariate scoring rules: Unifying the characterizations of positional scoring rules and Kemeny's rule2
Endogenous criteria for success2
Sorting expertise2
Non-Bayesian updating in a social learning experiment2
Goodwill in communication2
Two time-consistent Paretian solutions to the intertemporal resource allocation problem2
Portfolio concentration, portfolio inertia, and ambiguous correlation2
Mediated talk: An experiment2
Aggregation of opinions in networks of individuals and collectives2
Dynamic consistency and rectangularity for the smooth ambiguity model2
Editorial Board2
On the voluntary disclosure of redundant information2
Heterogeneity, decentralized trade, and the long-run real effects of inflation2
Existence of an equilibrium in arrowian markets for consumption externalities2
Public disclosure and private information acquisition: A global game approach2
Information design in optimal auctions2
A population's feasible posterior beliefs2
Far above others2
Time-consistent equilibria in dynamic models with recursive payoffs and behavioral discounting2
Sufficient conditions for a “simple” decentralization with consumption externalities2
Belief-averaging and relative utilitarianism2
Competition in costly talk2
Self-evident events and the value of linking2
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