The official blog of the Journal of Institutional Economics
Summary of JOIE article “What makes prosecutors independent? Analysing the institutional determinants of prosecutorial independence”, by Stefan Voigt (Institute of Law and Economics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany) and Alexander J. Wulf (Institute of Law and Economics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, and SRH Hochschule Berlin, Berlin, Germany). The full article is available on the JOIE…
Summary of JOIE article “Private Provision of Public Goods via Crowdfunding”, by Marek Hudik (Xi’an Jiaotong–Liverpool University, Suzhou, China) and Robert Chovanculiak (Institute of Economic and Social Studies, Bratislava, Slovakia). The full article is available on the JOIE website. In 2011, Highland Park in Michigan was compelled to remove over two-thirds of its streetlights because…
Summary of JOIE article “1688 and All That: Property Rights, the Glorious Revolution and the Rise of British Capitalism”, Journal of Institutional Economics, 13(1), March, pp. 79-107, by Geoffrey Hodgson (Hertfordshire Business School, University of Hertfordshire). The article is open access and available on the JOIE website. Sometime after 1700, GDP per capita began to…