The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization

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Volume 33 Issue 2 May 2017

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1.212

5 year Impact Factor

1.578

Editor-in-Chief
Wouter Dessein

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About the journal

The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization is an interdisciplinary exercise. It seeks to promote an understanding of many complex phenomena by examining such matters from a combined law, economics, and organization perspective …

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Williamson Prize

The Editor and Co-Editors are pleased to announce that the seventh annual Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Best Article in JLEO was awarded to Luis Garicano and Thomas N. Hubbard for their article "The Returns to Knowledge Hierarchies".

All Williamson Prize-winning articles and short-listed papers are free to read online.

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2016 Nobel Prize in Economics

Congratulations to Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom, winners of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Economics!

A selection of seminal papers published in the Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization by Hart and Holmstrom (a member of the JLEO editorial board), as well as a special issue on Grossman and Hart at 25, are now free to read online for a limited time.

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Latest articles

Optimal Multistage Adjudication

Who (if Anyone) Should be Liable for Injuries from Generic Drugs?

Vertical Integration and Antitrust in Search Markets

The Emergence of the Corporate Form

A Theory of Shareholder Approval and Proposal Rights

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The quality of government

The institutional environment for multinational investment

Public and private bureaucracies: a transaction cost economics perspectives

Does Corporate Governance Predict Firms' Market Values? Evidence from Korea

Are You Being Served? Political Accountability and Quality of Government

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In the News

Read JLEO research on ideology of Supreme Court justices featured in The New York Times.

The Judicial Common Space
Lee Epstein; Andrew D. Martin; Jeffrey A. Segal; Chad Westerland

Assessing Preference Change on the US Supreme Court
Andrew D. Martin; Kevin M. Quinn

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