Announcing New ERN Subject Matter eJournal & 3 Expanded Subject Matter eJournals

We are pleased to announce a new Economics Research Network (ERN) Subject Matter eJournal -- Game Theory & Bargaining Theory -- as well as the expansion of three Subject Matter eJournals -- Institutional & Transition Economics, Microeconomics, and Organizations & Markets.

GAME THEORY & BARGAINING THEORY
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts of empirical and theoretical papers on game theory, defined as the study of the strategic interaction among rational agents in competitive and cooperative environments, and bargaining theory, defined as a situation in which two or more players have a common interest to co-operate, but have conflicting interests over exactly how to co-operate. The topics in this journal include all of the subjects in Section C7 of the JEL classification system.


ERN INSTITUTIONAL & TRANSITION ECONOMICS eJOURNALS
Editor: Erik Berglöf, Chief Economist, European Bank of Reconstruction and Development


Institutions & Transition Economics: Environmental Issues
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts of empirical and theoretical papers analyzing the environmental impact of institutional changes in transitional economies.


Institutions & Transition Economics: Firm Governance
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts of empirical and theoretical papers that investigate the relationship between institutional change and firm governance unique to Transition Economics.


Institutions & Transition Economics: Macroeconomic Issues
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts of empirical and theoretical papers that investigate macroeconomic issues in the context of transitional economies.


Institutions & Transition Economics: Microeconomic Issues
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts of empirical and theoretical papers on microeconomic topics in the context of economies experiencing institutional change.


Institutions & Transition Economics: Political Economy
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts of empirical and theoretical papers that focus on the analysis of institutions and political power in transitional economies; the capital-labor relations in the context of institutional change; and the analysis of the relationship between institutions and corruption.


Institutions & Transition Economics: Theoretical & Methodological Issues
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts of empirical and theoretical papers that focus on the analysis of the theory of institutions, as well as methodological differences between old and new institutionalism within the context of economies experiencing institutional change.


Institutions & Transition Economics: Underground Economy
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts of empirical and theoretical papers on issues related to the underground economy in the context of transitional economies.


ERN MICROECONOMICS eJOURNALS

Microeconomics: General Equilibrium & Disequilibrium
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts of empirical and theoretical papers on the microeconomic aspects of general equilibrium and disequilibrium. The topics in this journal include all topics from Section D5 of the JEL classification system.


Microeconomics: Information, Specific Knowledge, & Uncertainty
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts of empirical and theoretical papers on microeconomic aspects of information, specific knowledge, and uncertainty, in situations where the costs of transferring knowledge between agents is positive and therefore leads to differential information among agents. The topics in this journal include topics D81, D82, D83, D86, and D87 from Section D8 of the JEL classification system.


Microeconomics: Intertemporal Choice & Growth
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts of empirical and theoretical papers on microeconomic aspects of intertemporal choice and growth. The topics in this journal include all the topics from Section D9 of the JEL classification system.


Microeconomics: Production, Market Structure, & Pricing
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts of empirical and theoretical papers on microeconomic aspects of production, market structure, and pricing. The topics in this journal include topics D21, D24, D41, D42, D43, D44, and D45 of Section D of the JEL classification system.


Microeconomics: Welfare Economics & Collective Decision-Making
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts of empirical and theoretical papers on welfare economics (that is those papers that use microeconomic techniques to simultaneously determine allocative efficiency within an economy and the income distribution associated with it). The topics in this journal include all topics from Section D6 as well as the topics D71and D72 from section D7 of the JEL classification system.


ERN ORGANIZATIONS & MARKETS eJOURNALS

Organizations & Markets: Decision-Making in Organizations
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts of empirical and theoretical papers investigating the multi-faceted aspects of the decision-making process in organizations.


Organizations & Markets: Firms & Other Social Institutions
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts of empirical and theoretical papers investigating the relationship between firms and other social institutions.


Organizations & Markets: Incentives & Motivation
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts of empirical and theoretical papers on the effects of Incentives and Motivation mechanisms and policies, including alternative performance measurement systems such as EVA(trademark), piece rates, group measures, Balanced Scorecard(trademark), and alternative compensation systems such as egalitarian systems, non-pecuniary rewards and punishments (including promotion and dismissal), and equity and non-equity based systems.


Organizations & Markets: Organizational Forms
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts of empirical and theoretical papers on the effects of organizational form on organizational behavior and efficiency.


Organizations & Markets: Personnel Management
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts of empirical and theoretical papers on personnel management within organizations.


Organizations & Markets: Structures & Processes in Organizations
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts of empirical and theoretical papers investigating the variety of rules of the game and structures and processes in organizations and their impact on performance.


Organizations & Markets: The Firm as a Nexus of Contracts (Boundaries of the Firm)
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Description: This journal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts of empirical and theoretical papers investigating the nature of the firm, vertical integration, contracts, and information and transaction costs.


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Posted 5/12/09

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