Williamson Prize
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2019 Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Best Article in Law, Economics and Organization
The Editor and Co-Editors of The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization are pleased to announce the winner of the ninth annual Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Best Article in JLEO to Megan T. Stevenson for her article "Distortion of Justice: How the Inability to Pay Bail Affects Case Outcomes."
The Editors have also given an honorable mention to the following authors who were part of the Award short-list:
Juan José Ganuza, Fernando Gomez, & Marta Robles, "Product Liability versus Reputation."
2018 Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Best Article in Law, Economics and Organization
The Editor and Co-Editors of The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, are pleased to announce the award of the eighth annual Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Best Article in JLEO to Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Oscar Gelderblom, Joost Jonker, & Enrico C. Perotti for their article "The Emergence of the Corporate Form."
2017 Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Best Article in Law, Economics and Organization
The Editor and Co-Editors of The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, are pleased to announce the award of the seventh annual Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Best Article in JLEO to Luis Garicano and Thomas N. Hubbard for their article "The Returns to Knowledge Hierarchies".
2016 Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Best Article in Law, Economics and Organization
The Editor and Co-Editors of The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, are pleased to announce the award of the sixth annual Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Best Article in JLEO to Amit Gandhi, Daniela Iorio, and Carly Urban for their article "Negative Advertising and Political Competition".
The Editors also want to give an honorable mention to the following authors whose paper was part of the Award short-list:
- Ryan Lampe and Petra Moser, Patent Pools, Competition, and Innovation – Evidence from 20 U.S. Industries Under the New Deal
- Benjamin E. Hermalin, Why Whine About Wining and Dining?
2015 Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Best Article in Law, Economics and Organization
The Editor and Co-Editors of The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, are pleased to announce the award of the fifth annual Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Best Article in JLEO to Jordi Blanes i Vidal and Clare Leaver for their article "Bias in Open Peer-Review: Evidence from the English Superior Courts".
2014 Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Best Article in Law, Economics and Organization
The Editor and Co-Editors of The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, are pleased to announce the award of the fourth annual Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Best Article in JLEO to Dora L. Costa for her article Leaders: Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity, and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War.
The Editors also want to give an honorable mention to the following authors whose paper was part of the Award short-list:
- Glenn Ellison and Richard Holden, “ A Theory of Rule Development "
- Marina Halac, “ Relationship Building: Conflict and Project Choice Over Time "
2013 Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Best Article in Law, Economics and Organization
The award of the third annual Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Best Article in JLEO was awarded to Matias Iaryczower, Gabriel Katz, and Sebastian Saiegh for their article
Voting in the Bicameral Congress: Large Majorities as a Signal of Quality.
The Editors also want to recognize the following authors whose paper was part of the Award short-list:
- Jordi Blanes i Vidal and Clare Leaver, Social Interactions and the Content of Legal Opinions.
2012 Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Best Article in Law, Economics and Organization
The 2012 Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Best Article award in JLEO went to Bart J. Wilson, Taylor Jaworski, Karl E. Schurter, and Andrew Smyth for their article The Ecological and Civil Mainsprings of Property: An Experimental Economic History of Whalers’ Rules of Capture.
The following papers were part of the Award short-list:
- Peter Iliev and Ivo Welch, A Model of Operational Slack: The Short-Run, Medium-Run, and Long-Run Consequences of Limited Attention Capacity.
- Ricard Gil and Justin Marion, Self-Enforcing Agreements and Relational Contracting: Evidence from California Highway Procurement.
2011 Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Best Article in Law, Economics and Organization
The first annual Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Best Article in JLEO was awarded to Eleonora Patacchini , from Universita di Roma "La Sapienza" and Yves Zenou , from Stockholm University and IFN, for their article, Juvenile Delinquency and Conformism.
The following papers were part of the 2011 Award short-list:
- Dan Bernhardt, Steeve Mongrain, and Joanne Roberts, Rehabilitated or Not: An Informational Theory of Parole Decisions
- Ricard Gil and Wesley Hartmann, Airing Your Dirty Laundry: Vertical Integration, Reputational Capital and Social Networks
- Alexander Stremitzer, Opportunistic Termination
The Journal of Law Economics and Organization Williamson Prize
The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Best Article annual prize awards $1,500 to the author of the most original and innovative paper accepted for publication in JLEO during the year preceding the award.
All contributors to JLEO are eligible for the award, irrespective of their age. Preference, however, is given to younger scholars. The current Editor, Co-editors, and Members of the Editorial Board of JLEO cannot be considered for the award.
The selection is made by the Editor and Co-Editors. The Editor and Co-Editors may choose not to award the prize and hold it over for a subsequent year if, in their view, the papers submitted do not reach the standards required.
