Economic theory papers, reconstructed as arguments you can navigate. Every claim anchored to the exact page and quote it comes from.
| Paper | Authors | Journal | Year | Claims | Headline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grantmaking, Grading on a Curve, and the Paradox of Relative Evaluation in Nonmarkets | Jérôme Adda, Marco Ottaviani | Quarterly Journal of Economics | 2024 | 64 | 8 |
| Decomposition and Characterization of Risk with a Continuum of Random Variables | Nabil Ibraheem Al-Najjar | Econometrica | 1995 | 51 | 9 |
| Public Goods Games, Altruism, and Evolution | Ingela Alger | Journal of Public Economic Theory | 2010 | 34 | 5 |
| Organizing Time Exchanges: Lessons from Matching Markets | Tommy Andersson, Ágnes Cseh, Lars Ehlers, Albin Erlanson | American Economic Journal: Microeconomics | 2021 | 40 | 6 |
| Quasi-Concave Programming | Kenneth J. Arrow, Alain C. Enthoven | Econometrica | 1961 | 46 | 4 |
| Utility Theory without the Completeness Axiom | Robert J. Aumann | Econometrica | 1962 | 38 | 7 |
| Trading and Information Diffusion in Over-the-Counter Markets | Ana Babus, Péter Kondor | Econometrica | 2018 | 58 | 9 |
| Technological Expectations and Adoption of Improved Technology | Yves Balcer, Steven A. Lippman | Journal of Economic Theory | 1984 | 41 | 10 |
| The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics | Timothy Besley, Torsten Persson | American Economic Review | 2009 | 60 | 6 |
| Handcuffs for the Grabbing Hand? Media Capture and Government Accountability | Timothy Besley, Andrea Prat | American Economic Review | 2006 | 65 | 4 |
| Incentive-compatible voting rules with positively correlated beliefs | Mohit Bhargava, Dipjyoti Majumdar, Arunava Sen | Theoretical Economics | 2015 | 28 | 4 |
| Egalitarianism and Efficiency in Repeated Symmetric Games | V. Bhaskar | Games and Economic Behavior | 2000 | 37 | 4 |
| Competing Mechanisms in a Common Value Environment | Bruno Biais, David Martimort, Jean-Charles Rochet | Econometrica | 2000 | 48 | 12 |
| The Identification Problem in Systems Nonlinear in the Variables | Bryan W. Brown | Econometrica | 1983 | 32 | 3 |
| Markov Equilibria in Discounted Stochastic Games | Subir K. Chakrabarti | Journal of Economic Theory | 1999 | 49 | 3 |
| A Unifying Approach to Axiomatic Non-expected Utility Theories | S. H. Chew, L. G. Epstein | Journal of Economic Theory | 1989 | 45 | 5 |
| Strategic Information Transmission | Vincent P. Crawford, Joel Sobel | Econometrica | 1982 | 39 | 7 |
| Smooth Preferences | Gerard Debreu | Econometrica | 1972 | 35 | 2 |
| Topologies on types | Eddie Dekel, Drew Fudenberg, Stephen Morris | Theoretical Economics | 2006 | 56 | 7 |
| Representing Preferences with a Unique Subjective State Space | Eddie Dekel, Barton L. Lipman, Aldo Rustichini | Econometrica | 2001 | 47 | 9 |
| Extended Pareto rules and relative utilitarianism | Amrita Dhillon | Social Choice and Welfare | 1998 | 30 | 2 |
| Assortative Matching With Large Firms | Jan Eeckhout, Philipp Kircher | Econometrica | 2018 | 43 | 5 |
| Resource-monotonicity for house allocation problems | Lars Ehlers, Bettina Klaus | International Journal of Game Theory | 2004 | 36 | 3 |
| Autoregressive Conditional Duration: A New Model for Irregularly Spaced Transaction Data | Robert F. Engle, Jeffrey R. Russell | Econometrica | 1998 | 55 | 6 |
| Efficient Resource Allocation on the Basis of Priorities | Haluk I. Ergin | Econometrica | 2002 | 39 | 5 |
| Strategic Mass Killings | Joan Esteban, Massimo Morelli, Dominic Rohner | Journal of Political Economy | 2015 | 61 | 3 |
| Renegotiation in Repeated Games | Joseph Farrell, Eric Maskin | Games and Economic Behavior | 1989 | 64 | 8 |
| A Non-cooperative Equilibrium for Supergames | James W. Friedman | Review of Economic Studies | 1971 | 48 | 5 |
| Liquidity Preference and Risk Aversion with an Exponential Utility Function | Errol Glustoff, Nic Nigro | Review of Economic Studies | 1972 | 27 | 2 |
| Long-Term Contracting With Time-Inconsistent Agents | Daniel Gottlieb, Xingtan Zhang | Econometrica | 2021 | 62 | 9 |
| Rationality and Coherent Theories of Strategic Behavior | Faruk Gul | Journal of Economic Theory | 1996 | 47 | 14 |
| Evaluating ambiguous random variables from Choquet to maxmin expected utility | Faruk Gul, Wolfgang Pesendorfer | Journal of Economic Theory | 2021 | 35 | 6 |
| Walrasian Equilibrium with Gross Substitutes | Faruk Gul, Ennio Stacchetti | Journal of Economic Theory | 1999 | 50 | 6 |
| Matching in Networks with Bilateral Contracts | John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers | American Economic Journal: Microeconomics | 2012 | 45 | 8 |
| Moral Hazard and Verifiability: The Effects of Renegotiation in Agency | Benjamin E. Hermalin, Michael L. Katz | Econometrica | 1991 | 52 | 7 |
| Core of coalition formation games and fixed-point methods | Hakan İnal | Social Choice and Welfare | 2015 | 39 | 3 |
| Voluntary Implementation | Matthew O. Jackson, Thomas R. Palfrey | Journal of Economic Theory | 2001 | 45 | 2 |
| Overcoming Incentive Constraints by Linking Decisions | Matthew O. Jackson, Hugo F. Sonnenschein | Econometrica | 2007 | 36 | 5 |
| Existence of Equilibrium in Single and Double Private Value Auctions | Matthew O. Jackson, Jeroen M. Swinkels | Econometrica | 2005 | 52 | 4 |
| Risk Reduction in Large Portfolios: Why Imposing the Wrong Constraints Helps | Ravi Jagannathan, Tongshu Ma | Journal of Finance | 2003 | 37 | 10 |
| Bayesian Persuasion | Emir Kamenica, Matthew Gentzkow | American Economic Review | 2011 | 66 | 7 |
| Collateral premia and risk sharing under limited commitment | Weerachart T. Kilenthong | Economic Theory | 2011 | 57 | 11 |
| The existence of population inequality measures | Christian Kleiber | Economics Letters | 1997 | 33 | 4 |
| Bubbles and Constraints on Debt Accumulation | Narayana R. Kocherlakota | Journal of Economic Theory | 1992 | 31 | 7 |
| Discounted Stochastic Games With No Stationary Nash Equilibrium: Two Examples | Yehuda Levy | Econometrica | 2013 | 52 | 6 |
| Obviously Strategy-Proof Mechanisms | Shengwu Li | American Economic Review | 2017 | 44 | 6 |
| Market equilibrium with heterogeneous recursive-utility-maximizing agents | Chenghu Ma | Economic Theory | 1993 | 44 | 9 |
| On randomized matching mechanisms | Jinpeng Ma | Economic Theory | 1996 | 25 | 4 |
| Values for environments with externalities – The average approach | Inés Macho-Stadler, David Pérez-Castrillo, David Wettstein | Games and Economic Behavior | 2018 | 46 | 7 |
| Entry, Sunk Costs, and Market Structure | W. Bentley MacLeod | Canadian Journal of Economics | 1987 | 25 | 9 |
| Optimal Contracting with Subjective Evaluation | W. Bentley MacLeod | American Economic Review | 2003 | 58 | 4 |
| Capital Accumulation and Efficient Allocation of Resources | Edmond Malinvaud | Econometrica | 1953 | 43 | 7 |
| Multidimensional mechanism design: Revenue maximization and the multiple-good monopoly | Alejandro M. Manelli, Daniel R. Vincent | Journal of Economic Theory | 2007 | 42 | 3 |
| The Savers–Spenders Theory of Fiscal Policy | N. Gregory Mankiw | American Economic Review | 2000 | 38 | 5 |
| Order Independence for Iterated Weak Dominance | Leslie M. Marx, Jeroen M. Swinkels | Games and Economic Behavior | 1997 | 49 | 5 |
| Imitation Perfection—A Simple Rule to Prevent Discrimination in Procurement | Helene Mass, Nicolas Fugger, Vitali Gretschko, Achim Wambach | American Economic Journal: Microeconomics | 2020 | 40 | 9 |
| A characterization of the maximin social ordering | Kaname Miyagishima | Economics Bulletin | 2010 | 33 | 3 |
| Assignment problems with complementarities | Thành Nguyen, Ahmad Peivandi, Rakesh Vohra | Journal of Economic Theory | 2016 | 41 | 11 |
| Competing Models | José Luis Montiel Olea, Pietro Ortoleva, Mallesh Pai, Andrea Prat | Quarterly Journal of Economics | 2022 | 57 | 5 |
| Bribing in first-price auctions | Shiran Rachmilevitch | Games and Economic Behavior | 2013 | 50 | 10 |
| The Existence of a Utility Function to Represent Preferences | Trout Rader | Review of Economic Studies | 1963 | 33 | 4 |
| Maximality in the Farsighted Stable Set | Debraj Ray, Rajiv Vohra | Econometrica | 2019 | 60 | 4 |
| On the Existence of Pure and Mixed Strategy Nash Equilibria in Discontinuous Games | Philip J. Reny | Econometrica | 1999 | 60 | 4 |
| Existence and Uniqueness of Solutions to the Bellman Equation in the Unbounded Case | Juan Pablo Rincón-Zapatero, Carlos Rodríguez-Palmero | Econometrica | 2003 | 58 | 10 |
| Conditions for Identification in Nonparametric and Parametric Models | Charles S. Roehrig | Econometrica | 1988 | 38 | 4 |
| The Nash Solution and the Utility of Bargaining | Alvin E. Roth | Econometrica | 1978 | 9 | 2 |
| Increasing Risk: I. A Definition | Michael Rothschild, Joseph E. Stiglitz | Journal of Economic Theory | 1970 | 30 | 4 |
| Path independent choice and the ranking of opportunity sets | Matthew Ryan | Social Choice and Welfare | 2014 | 52 | 3 |
| Games with Imperfectly Observable Actions in Continuous Time | Yuliy Sannikov | Econometrica | 2007 | 36 | 3 |
| Anticipated Utility: A Measure Representation Approach | Uzi Segal | Annals of Operations Research | 1989 | 37 | 4 |
| Strategy-proof and individually rational social choice functions for public good economies | Shigehiro Serizawa | Economic Theory | 1996 | 41 | 3 |
| Relation Between a Social Welfare Function and the Gini Index of Income Inequality | Eytan Sheshinski | Journal of Economic Theory | 1972 | 29 | 1 |
| A Theory of Crowdfunding: A Mechanism Design Approach with Demand Uncertainty and Moral Hazard | Roland Strausz | American Economic Review | 2017 | 41 | 9 |
| Asset Bubbles and Overlapping Generations | Jean Tirole | Econometrica | 1985 | 71 | 9 |
| Optimal Saving under Poisson Uncertainty | Klaus Wälde | Journal of Economic Theory | 1999 | 30 | 5 |
| The nonatomic supermodular game | Jian Yang, Xiangtong Qi | Games and Economic Behavior | 2013 | 60 | 5 |
| Can intergenerational equity be operationalized? | William R. Zame | Theoretical Economics | 2007 | 40 | 6 |