Summary of JOIE article ( 11 December 2023) by Rishika Nayyar, University of Sussex Business School, Brighton, UK, and John Luiz, University of Sussex Business School and University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa. The full article is available on the JOIE website. Institutions exert an important influence on foreign direct investment (FDI) location choice – that is…
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Determinants of Social Norms I – the Role of Geography
Summary of JOIE Article (07 December 2023) by Stefan Voigt, Institute of Law & Economics, University of Hamburg, Germany. The full article is available on the JOIE website. For a long time, scholars in institutional economics were primarily concerned with formal institutions such as state-made and -enforced laws. This has completely changed over the last…
The role of social aversion in the motivations for tax law compliance
Summary of JOIE article ( 03 May 2023) by Karnit Malka Tiv, Law School, Zefat Academic College, Zefat, Israel and Law School, Netanya Academic College, Netanya, Israel. The full article is available on the JOIE website. Deterrence has always played an important part in court decisions pertaining to tax offenses. In this respect, many decisions…
Foreigner kings as local kingmakers: how the ‘unusual’ marginalization of conservative political groups occurred in pre-Industrial Revolution Britain
Summary of JOIE article ( 09 March 2023) by Mario Yamada, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. The full article is available on the JOIE website. In this article, I provide an explanation of how the conservative Tory elites in England/Britain in the period before the Industrial Revolution were politically marginalized, creating political and economic spaces…
‘It was organized from the bottom’: the response from community-based institutions during the 2014 Ebola epidemic
Summary of JOIE article ( 03 April 2023) by Sabine Iva Franklin, The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. The full article is available on the JOIE website. As we approach the 10-year anniversary of the West African Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Epidemic and now…
Disruptive innovation in the economic organization of China and the West
Summary of JOIE article ( 21 September 2022) by Hilton L. Root, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, Arlington, VA, USA. The full article is available on the JOIE website In this article I explore the influence of network design (topology) on the larger organizational structures of the historical regimes of China and…
Managing repugnance: How core-stigma shapes firm behavior
Summary of JOIE article (22 November 2022) by Erwin Dekker, Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Fairfax, The United States, and Julien Gradoz, Clersé, Université de Lille, Lille, France. The full article is available on the JOIE website. In the United States, marijuana has been legalized in several states. But many banks, nonetheless, refuse to let entrepreneurs in…
Integrating the exploration-exploitation dilemma and bad institutions to the Austrian theory of destructive entrepreneurship: a new perspective.
Summary of JOIE article (6 January 2023) by Thierry Aimar, Faculty of Law and Economics, University of Lorraine, France. The full article is available on the JOIE website. The objective of the article is to show that the integration of the exploration-exploitation dilemma into the Austrian theory adds new fruitful elements to the function of…
Russia as a great power: from 1815 to the present day: Parts I and II
Summary of JOIE articles (Part I – 3 October 2022, Part II – 22 October 2022) by Michael Ellman, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The full two-part article is available on theJOIE website: Part I and Part II The factors contributing to the current Russia-Ukraine war can be better…
Is there an enduring institutional oligopoly in economics?
Summary of JOIE article (16 September 2022) by Mathias Aistleitner, Jakob Kapeller, and Dominik Kronberger, Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy (ICAE), Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria. The full article is available on the JOIE website. Reflections on the paper “The Authors of Economics Journals Revisited: Evidence from a Large-Scale Replication of Hodgson &…