James Malcomson

Global rank #304 99%

Institution: Oxford University

Primary Field: Public (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/38?m1=8&m2=0

First Publication: 1975

Most Recent: 2025

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period	S (4x)	A (2x)	B (1x)	Total
Last 5 Years	0.00	2.01	2.01	6.03
Last 10 Years	2.01	3.02	3.02	17.09
All Time	16.09	12.74	15.75	107.08

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 34

Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 47.79

Publications (34)

Year	Article	Journal	Tier	Authors
2025	Grouping agents with persistent types	Games and Economic Behavior	B	1
2024	Uncertainty, Investment and Productivity with Relational Contracts	Journal of the European Economic Association	A	1
2018	Competition in public service provision: The role of not-for-profit providers	Journal of Public Economics	A	2
2017	Bargaining and Wage Rigidity in a Matching Model for the US	Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics	B	2
2016	Relational Incentive Contracts With Persistent Private Information	Econometrica	S	1
2015	Relational incentive contracts with productivity shocks	Games and Economic Behavior	B	1
2011	Do Managers with Limited Liability Take More Risky Decisions? An Information Acquisition Model	Journal of Economics & Management Strategy	B	1
2003	General training by firms, apprentice contracts, and public policy	European Economic Review	B	3
2002	Cost sharing in health service provision: an empirical assessment of cost savings	Journal of Public Economics	A	2
2001	Performance, Promotion, and the Peter Principle	Review of Economic Studies	S	2
1998	Contracting for health services when patient demand does not reflect quality	Journal of Health Economics	B	2
1998	Motivation and Markets.	American Economic Review	S	2
1996	Competition in NHS Quasi-markets.	Oxford Review of Economic Policy	C	2
1994	Trade unions and seniority employment rules	European Economic Review	B	2
1994	Labor Turnover and the Natural Rate of Unemployment: Efficiency Wage versus Frictional Unemployment.	Journal of Labor Economics	A	3
1994	Rewarding performance by promotion to a different job	European Economic Review	B	2
1993	Investments, Holdup, and the Form of Market Contracts.	American Economic Review	S	2
1993	Specific investment and wage profiles in labour markets	European Economic Review	B	2
1993	Wage premiums and profit maximization in efficiency wage models	European Economic Review	B	2
1988	Reputation and Hierarchy in Dynamic Models of Employment.	Journal of Political Economy	S	2
1988	Some analytics of the Laffer curve : Reply	Journal of Public Economics	A	1
1988	The Multiperiod Principal-Agent Problem	Review of Economic Studies	S	2
1987	Involuntary unemployment in dynamic contract equilibria *	European Economic Review	B	2
1987	Trade union labour contracts : An introduction	European Economic Review	B	1
1986	Some analytics of the laffer curve	Journal of Public Economics	A	1
1986	Rank-Order Contracts for a Principal with Many Agents	Review of Economic Studies	S	1
1985	Incomplete Contracts and Involuntary Unemployment.	Oxford Economic Papers	C	1
1984	Work Incentives, Hierarchy, and Internal Labor Markets.	Journal of Political Economy	S	1
1982	Tax policy and investment demand : A vintage approach	Journal of Public Economics	A	1
1981	Corporate Tax Policy and the Service Life of Capital Equipment	Review of Economic Studies	S	1
1980	The Measurement of Labour Cost in Empirical Models of Production and Employment.	Review of Economics and Statistics	A	1
1979	The Estimation of a Vintage Model of Production for UK Manufacturing	Review of Economic Studies	S	2
1978	Prices vs. Quantities: A Critical Note on the Use of Approximations	Review of Economic Studies	S	1
1975	Replacement and the rental value of capital equipment subject to obsolescence	Journal of Economic Theory	A	1