Topic Contracts
Publications: 54
Arruñada, Benito (2021), “Spanish Bankruptcy Law: Interpretation and Reform Proposals”, Fedea Policy Papers, 2021-08, Madrid.Arruñada, Benito, con comentarios de Gabriel Doménech Pascual, Román Gil Alburquerque e Ignacio Gomá Lanzón (2021), “La seguridad jurídica en España”, FEDEA, Estudios sobre la economía española, núm. 2021-18, Madrid.Arruñada, Benito (2020), “The Impact of Experience on How We Perceive the Rule of Law,” Journal of Institutional Economics, 16(3), 251–69.Arruñada, Benito (2020), “Bad Bakruptcy Law (Malas leyes: Aplicación al Derecho concursal)”, in A.B. Veiga Copo (ed.) and M. Martínez Muñoz (coord.), El acreedor en el derecho concursal y preconcursal a la luz del Texto refundido de la Ley Concursal, Cívitas Thompson Reuters, Cizur Menor, 53-103Arruñada, Benito (2020), “The Institutions of Roman Markets,” in Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci (ed.), Roman Law and Economics, vol. 2, Ch. 19, Oxford Studies in Roman Society and Law (Thomas A. J. McGinn and Paul du Plessis, eds.), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 247–98.Arruñada, Benito (2020), “Bad Law,” Información Comercial Española (ICE), Revista de Economía, 915, 9-28.Arruñada, Benito, Giorgio Zanarone, and Nuno M. Garoupa (2019), “Property Rights in Sequential Exchange,” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 35(1), 127-53.Arruñada, Benito (2019), “Prospects of Blockchain in Contract and Property,” EuropeanProperty Law Journal, 8(3), 231-59.Arruñada, Benito, and Pablo Casas-Arce (2018), “Mortgage Loans and Interest Rate Floors and Ceilings,” in Juan José Ganuza and Fernando Gómez-Pomar (cood.), Presente y futuro del mercado hipotecario español: un análisis económico y jurídico, Thompson Reuters Aranzadi, Cizur Menor, 285-314.Arruñada, Benito and Luis Garicano (2018), “Blockchain: The Birth of Decentralized Governance,”Pompeu Fabra University, Economics and Business Working Paper Series, 1608.Arruñada, Benito (2018), “Blockchain’s Struggle to Deliver Impersonal Exchange,” Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, 19, 55-105.Arruñada, Benito (2017), “Property as Sequential Exchange: The Forgotten Limits of Private Contract,” Journal of Institutional Economics, 13(4), 753-83.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 (2016), “How Rome Enabled Impersonal Markets,” Explorations in Economic History, 61, 68-84.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 (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, and Xosé H. Vázquez (2013), “Contractual Analysis of Organizational Innovation: Foundations and Cases,”in G. Caballero and X.C.Arias, eds., Nuevo institucionalismo: Gobernanza, economía y políticas públicas, Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, Madrid, 103-27.Arruñada, Benito (2013), Empresa, mercado e instituciones, Thomson Reuters, Cizur Menor.Arruñada, Benito (2013), “The Institutions of Impersonal Exchange”(“Las instituciones del intercambio impersonal”),Revista Crítica de Derecho Inmobiliario,89(726), 649-87.Arruñada, Benito (2012), Institutional Foundations of Impersonal Exchange: The Theory and Policy of Contractual Registries, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.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 (2012), "The Reform of Mortgage Liability," Revista Crítica de Derecho Inmobiliario, no. 731, 1259-89.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 (2011), “Property Titling and Conveyancing,” in Kenneth Ayotte and Henry E. Smith, eds., Research Handbook on the Economics of Property Law, Research Handbooks in Law and Economics Series (Series editors: Richard Posner and Francesco Parisi), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham UK, 237-56.Arruñada, Benito (2010), Business Formalization: Costs versus Institutional Efficiency, Thomson Reuters, Cizur Menor.Arruñada, Benito (2010), “The SEC of Goldman Sachs,” Cinco Días, May 6, p. 19.Arruñada, Benito, and Amnon Lehavi (2011), "Prime Property Institutions for a Subprime Era: Exploring Innovative Models of Residential Development and Finance," Berkeley Business Law Journal, 8(1), 1-34.Arruñada, Benito (2010), “A Virtual Reform of the Business Environment,” in M. Bagüés, J. Fernández-Villaverde y L. Garicano (eds.), La Ley de Economía Sostenible y las reformas estructurales: 25 propuestas, FEDEA, Madrid, pp. 42-47.Arruñada, Benito (2010), “Institutional Support of the Firm: A Theory of Business Registries,” Journal of Legal Analysis, 2, 2, 525-76.Arruñada, Benito, Luis Vázquez, and Giorgio Zanarone (2009), “Institutional Constraints on Organizations: The Case of Spanish Car Dealerships,” Managerial and Decision Economics, 30(1), 15-26.Arruñada, Benito, and Xosé H. Vázquez (2006), “When Your Contract Manufacturer Becomes Your Competitor,” Harvard Business Review, 84(9), 135-45.Arruñada, Benito, y Xosé H. Vázquez (2005), "Contract Manufacturing and the Future of the Automotive Industry," Economía Industrial, 358, 79-86. (Article awarded the ICARO Caja Navarra Prize, 2007).Arruñada, Benito, Luis Garicano and Luis Vázquez (2005), "Completing Contracts Ex Post: How Car Manufacturers Manage Car Dealers," Review of Law and Economics, 1(1), 149-173Arruñada, Benito, Manuel González-Díaz, and Alberto Fernández (2004), “Determinants of Organizational Form: Transaction Costs and Institutions in the European Trucking Industry,” Industrial and Corporate Change, 13(6), 867-82.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, and Xosé H. Vázquez (2004), “Contract Manufacturing: Does the Industrial Firm Have a Future?,” Universia Business Review, 1, 64-69.Vázquez, Luis, and Benito Arruñada (2001) “Effects of Ownership on Firms’ Performance: Evidence from Car Dealers,” Revista Española de Financiación y Contabilidad, 30(110), 1071-1092.Arruñada, Benito (2001), “The Role of Institutions in the Contractual Process,” in B. Deffains and T. Kirat, eds., Law and Economics in Civil Law Countries, The Economics of Legal Relationships Series, JAI Press, Stamford, CT, 177-196.Arruñada, Benito, Luis Garicano and Luis Vázquez (2001), “Contractual Allocation of Decision Rights and Incentives: The Case of Automobile Distribution,” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 17(1), 256-83.Fernández, Alberto, Benito Arruñada and Manuel González-Díaz (2000), “Quasi-Integration in Less-than-Truckload Trucking,” in C. Ménard (ed.), Institutions, Contracts, Organizations: Perspectives from New Institutional Economics, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 293-312.González-Díaz, Manuel, Benito Arruñada and Alberto Fernández (2000), “Causes of Subcontracting: Evidence from Panel Data on Construction Firms,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 42(2), 167-87.Arruñada, Benito (1997), “The Contractual Structure of the Firm,” in Qué es la economía, Pirámide, Madrid, 583-615.Arruñada, Benito (1996), “Contractual Analysis of the Firm: An Applied Introduction,”Revista Europea de Dirección y Economía de la Empresa, 5(3), 41-56.Arruñada, Benito (2022), “Comment to the new regulations of housing rentals”, Revista del Instituto de Estudios Económicos, 3, 129-145.Arruñada, Benito (2000), "The Quasi-Judicial Role of Large Retailers: An Efficiency Hypothesis of their Relation with Suppliers," Revue d’Economie Industrielle, 92, 277-296.Fernández, Alberto, Benito Arruñada and Manuel González-Díaz (2000), “Quasi-Integration in Package Transportation,” Revista de Economía Aplicada, 8(24), 139-155.Arruñada, Benito (1998), Contractual Theory of the Firm, Marcial Pons, Madrid.González-Díaz, Manuel, Benito Arruñada and Alberto Fernández (1997), “The Subcontracting Decision: The Case of the Construction Firm,” Investigaciones Económicas, 21(3), 503-24.Arruñada, Benito (1993), “Painting the Black Box,” Papeles de Economía Española, 57, 156-69.Arruñada, Benito (1990), The Economics of the Firm: A Contractual Approach, Ariel, Barcelona. 
