Area Regulation
Publications: 65
Arruñada, Benito (2024), “La demanda económica de seguridad jurídica”, in Instituciones del Estado democrático de derecho, AEBOE, 317-23.Arruñada, Benito (2006), “Registries in Chile: Deficit and Reform Strategies”, Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, abril-mayo.Arruñada, Benito (2021), “The paradox of contractual protection: Protecting the weak of today excludes the weak of tomorrow”, FEDEA, Apuntes, 2026-11.Arruñada, Benito (2025), “Commentary on the Sustainability Directives. Simplification Is Not Enough: The Sensible Course Is to Repeal Them”, FEDEA, Colección Apuntes, 2025-35, Madrid, December.Arruñada, Benito (2025), It’s Our Fault: How Citizens’ Preferences Are Hindering Reforms in Spain, La Esfera de los Libros, Madrid.De la Fuente, Ángel, y Benito Arruñada (coord.), Marta Cervera Martínez, Marta Flores Segura y Jordi Maristany Rivero (2021), “How to Help Firms After the COVID Crisis?”, FEDEA, Informes y papeles del Grupo de Trabajo Mixto Covid-19, Fedea Policy Papers, 2021/05, April 12.Arruñada, Benito (2017), “Institutional Development of the Cross-Border Real Estate Market in the EU”, in Christoph Schmid and Benito Arruñada, Las transacciones transfronterizas inmobiliarias en Europa, Fundación Coloquio Jurídico Europeo, Madrid, 59–130.Arruñada, Benito (2016), “Coase and the Departure from Property,” in Claude Ménard and Elodie Bertrand (eds.),The Elgar Companion to Ronald H. Coase, Edward Elgar Publisher, Cheltenham UK, 305-19.Arruñada, Benito (2012), Institutional Foundations of Impersonal Exchange: The Theory and Policy of Contractual Registries, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.Arruñada, Benito (2012), "The Reform of Mortgage Liability," Revista Crítica de Derecho Inmobiliario, no. 731, 1259-89.Arruñada, Benito (2010), Business Formalization: Costs versus Institutional Efficiency, Thomson Reuters, Cizur Menor.Arruñada, Benito (2008), “How Doing Business Jeopardises Institutional Reform,” European Business Organization Law Review, 10(4), 555-74.Arruñada, Benito (2009), "Reforming Responsibility in Spain: Heavy Lifting Ahead," IESE Insight, 3, 36-43.Arruñada, Benito (2006), “Managing Competition in Professional Services and the Burden of Inertia,” in Claus-Dieter Ehlermann and Isabela Atanasiu, eds., European Competition Law Annual 2004: The Relationship between Competition Law and the (Liberal) Professions, Hart Publishing, Oxford, 51-71.Arruñada, Benito (2004), “Quality Safeguards and Regulation of Online Pharmacies,” Health Economics, 13(4), 329-44.Arruñada, Benito (2004), “The Rule on Payment Delays,” In Dret, 3Arruñada, Benito (2004), Contracting Property Rights: An Economic Analysis, Cuadernos de Derecho Registral, Madrid.Arruñada, Benito (2004), “Which Industrial Policy We Need,” Expansión, April 24, 63.Arruñada, Benito (2001), “Economics and Law in the New Competition Policy of the European Union,” Gaceta Jurídica de la Unión Europea y de la Competencia, 211, 31-41. Reprinted in El nuevo derecho comunitario y español de la competencia, Bosch, Barcelona, 2002, 51-67.Arruñada, Benito (1999), The Role of Trade Credit and Payment Delays in Commercial Transactions, Marcial Pons–Instituto de Estudios del Libre Comercio, Madrid.Arruñada, Benito (1995), “Professional Associations and Institutional Design,” Economistas, 63, 86-90. Reproduced in J. Velarde et al. (dirs.) Regulación y competencia en la economía española, Cívitas, Madrid, 1995, 65-75.Arruñada, Benito (1995), Economic Analysis of Notaries Public, CGN, Madrid.Arruñada, Benito (2022), “Comment to the new regulations of housing rentals”, Revista del Instituto de Estudios Económicos, 3, 129-145.Arruñada, Benito (2025), “Titling Systems,” in Alain Marciano and Giovanni Battista Ramello (eds.), Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, Springer, Cham.De la Fuente, Ángel, y Benito Arruñada (2021), “Firms’ Financial Health in the COVID Crisis”, in Benito Arruñada and Ángel de la Fuente (coord.), Marta Cervera Martínez, Marta Flores Segura and Jordi Maristany Rivero, Solvencia empresarial y derecho concursal: Algunas reflexiones a la luz del Covid, FEDEA, Informes y papeles del Grupo de Trabajo Mixto Covid-19, Fedea Policy Papers, 2021/04, February 23, 3-17.Arruñada, Benito (2020), “Bad Law,” Información Comercial Española (ICE), Revista de Economía, 915, 9-28.Arruñada, Benito (2019), “Prospects of Blockchain in Contract and Property,” EuropeanProperty Law Journal, 8(3), 231-59.Arruñada, Benito, and Carlos Manzanares (2016), “The Tradeoff Between Ex Ante and Ex Post Transaction Costs: Evidence from Legal Opinions,” Berkeley Business Law Journal, 13(1), 217–55.Arruñada, Benito, and Stephen Hansen (2015), “Organizing Public Good Provision: Lessons from Managerial Accounting,”International Review of Law and Economics, 42, 185-91.Arruñada, Benito (2014), “Registries,”Man and the Economy, 1(2), 209-30.Arruñada, Benito (2014), “The Law of Impersonal Transactions,” in Eric Brousseauand Jean-Michel Glachant, eds., The Manufacturing of Markets:Legal, Political and Economic Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 58-77.Arruñada, Benito (2012), “Property as an Economic Concept: Reconciling Legal and Economic Conceptions of Property Rights in a Coasean Framework,” International Review of Economics,59(2), 121-44.Arruñada, Benito (2011), "Guidelines to Reform Business Formalities," Foment del Treball Nacional, 2132, 30-33.Arruñada, Benito (2011), "Tax Reform instead of Mortgage Reform", Expansión, April 13, 46.Arruñada, Benito (2011), "Limiting Mortgage Liability Would Be an Error", La Vanguardia, March 20, Dinero, 13.Arruñada, Benito (2011), "Compulsory No-recourse in Mortgage Lending: A Bad Idea," Expansión, February 23, 46.Arruñada, Benito (2010), “The SEC of Goldman Sachs,” Cinco Días, May 6, p. 19.Arruñada, Benito (2010), “A Country of Unemployment and Self-service,” Cinco Días, April 1, p. 14.Arruñada, Benito (2011), “Mandatory Accounting Disclosure by Small Private Companies,” European Journal of Law and Economics, 32(3), 377-413.Reproduced in ELRA Annual Publication, 5, 2014, 12-52.Arruñada, Benito (2007), “Market and Institutional Determinants in the Regulation of Conveyancers,” European Journal of Law and Economics, 23(2), 93-116.Arruñada, Benito (2005), “Price Regulation of Plastic Money: A Critical Assessment of Spanish Rules,” European Business Organization Law Review, 6(4), 625-650.Arruñada, Benito (2004), Titling Systems: An Organizational Analysis, Palestra, Lima.Arruñada, Benito (2003), “Entry into the Land Register: The Spanish Experience,” Revista Crítica de Derecho Inmobiliario, 79 (680), 3271-3289.Arruñada, Benito (2001), “Past, Present and Future of Notaries Public,” Folio Real: Revista Peruana de Derecho Registral y Notarial, 2(6), 135-153.Arruñada, Benito (2001), “Pharmacies over the Centuries,” Revista de Administración Sanitaria, 5(19), 119-134.Arruñada, Benito (2000), “How to Manage Competition in the Public Sector,” Anuario de la Competencia 1999, 267-311.Arruñada, Benito (2000), "Audit Quality: Attributes, Private Safeguards and the Role of Regulation," The European Accounting Review, 9(2), 205-24.Arruñada, Benito (1999), The Directive on Late Payments: A Bad Solution for a False Problem, Marcial Pons–Instituto de Estudios del Libre Comercio, Madrid.González-Díaz, Manuel, Benito Arruñada and Alberto Fernández (1998), “Regulation as Cause of Firm Fragmentation: The Case of the Spanish Construction Industry,” International Review of Law and Economics, 18(4), 433-450.Arruñada, Benito (1998), “Financial Auditors,” Anales CIDDRIM (I) 96/97, Cedecs, Barcelona, 267-90.Arruñada, Benito (1998), “Design and Regulation of Professional Services: Some Policy Guidelines” (“Gestaltung und Regulierung von Freiberuflichen Dienstleistungen: Ein Allgemeiner Handlungsleifaden”), in H. Herrmann and J. Backhaus (eds.), Staatlich Gebundene Freiberufe im Wandel, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 115-35.Arruñada, Benito (1997), “How to Manage Notaries’ Prices,” in J. J. Toharia, B. Arruñada and C. Paz-Ares, Fe pública y vida económica, Instituto de Estudios Económicos, Madrid, 49-58.Arruñada, Benito (1999), The Economics of Audit Quality: PrivateIncentives and the Regulation of Audit and Non-Audit Services, Kluwer (now Springer), Boston and Dordrecht.Arruñada, Benito, and Cándido Paz-Ares (1997), “Mandatory Rotation of Company Auditors: A Critical Examination,” International Review of Law and Economics, 17(1), 31-61.Arruñada, Benito (1996), “The Economics of Notaries,” European Journal of Law and Economics, 3(1), 5-37.Arruñada, Benito (1996), “On the Liberalization of Professional Services and Associations,” in Several Authors, Reformas de estructura, Sociedad de Estudios Económicos, Barcelona, 49-71.Arruñada, Benito (1993), “Painting the Black Box,” Papeles de Economía Española, 57, 156-69.Arruñada, Benito (1992), “Professionals of Monopoly,” Revista de Economía, 14, 95-101.Arruñada, Benito (1992), “Sharks only in the Dictionary,” Boletín del Círculo de Empresarios, 56, 15-30.Arruñada, Benito (1992), “A Critique of Tender Offer Regulation,” Revista de Derecho Mercantil, 203-4, 29-67.Arruñada, Benito (1991), “Nobel to the Coasian Turn,” Revista de Economía, 11, 122-26.Arruñada, Benito (1990), “The Regulation of Business Information,” Boletín del Círculo de Empresarios, 51, 11-42.Arruñada, Benito (1990), “Control and Ownership: Limits to the Development of Spanish Firms,” Información Comercial Española, Revista de Economía, 687, 67-88.Arruñada, Benito (1990), Corporate Governance and Regulation, Alianza, Madrid.Arruñada, Benito (1988), “An Economic Analysis of Spanish Corporation Law,” Anales de Estudios Económicos y Empresariales, 3, 191-224. 
