Area Law & Economics
Publications: 85
Arruñada, Benito (2021), “The Crisis of Mortgage Law”, in A.B. Veiga Copo (ed.) and M. Martínez Muñoz (coord.), Derecho de Garantías, Cívitas Thompson Reuters, Cizur Menor, en prensa.Arruñada, Benito (2021), “Spanish Bankruptcy Law: Interpretation and Reform Proposals”, Fedea Policy Papers, 2021-08, Madrid.Arruñada, Benito (2021), “The Crisis of Property”, in La propiedad privada en España, Instituto de Estudios Económicos, Colección Informes, Madrid, March, 54–74.Arruñada, Benito (2018), “Blockchain’s Struggle to Deliver Impersonal Exchange,” Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, 19, 55-105.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 (2017), “How to Make Land Titling More Rational,”Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference Journal6(1), 73-112.Arruñada, Benito (2017), “How Should We Model Property? Thinking with My Critics,”Journal of Institutional Economics,13(4), 815-27.Arruñada, Benito, and Marco Casari (2016), “Fragile Markets: An Experiment on Judicial Independence,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,129,142-56.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 (2013), Empresa, mercado e instituciones, Thomson Reuters, Cizur Menor.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 (2011), "Organizational Foundations of the Land Registry," Registradores de España, 58, January-February, 84-86.Arruñada, Benito (2010), Business Formalization: Costs versus Institutional Efficiency, Thomson Reuters, Cizur Menor.Arruñada, Benito (2010), “Retiring before We Work”, Expansión, February 22, p. 46.Arruñada, Benito (2010), “Institutional Support of the Firm: A Theory of Business Registries,” Journal of Legal Analysis, 2, 2, 525-76.Arruñada, Benito (2008), “How Doing Business Jeopardises Institutional Reform,” European Business Organization Law Review, 10(4), 555-74.Arruñada, Benito, and Veneta Andonova (2008), “Common Law and Civil Law as Pro-Market Adaptations,” Washington University Journal of Law & Policy, 26, 81-130.Arruñada, Benito, and Veneta Andonova (2008), “Judges’ Cognition and Market Order,” Review of Law and Economics, 4(2), 665-92.Arruñada, Benito (2007), “Manufacturing Property,” in Españoles ante el Registro, Colegio de Registradores, Madrid, 57-65.Arruñada, Benito (2007), “The Effectiveness Imperative in Business Formalization,” Globalization, Competitiveness and Governability Journal, 1(1).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), “The Rule on Payment Delays,” In Dret, 3Arruñada, Benito (2004), Contracting Property Rights: An Economic Analysis, Cuadernos de Derecho Registral, Madrid.Arruñada, Benito (2002), “A Transaction Cost View of Title Insurance and its Role in Different Legal Systems,” The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, 27(4), 582-601.Arruñada, Benito (2001), “A Global Perspective on Title Insurance,” Housing Finance International, 16(2), 3-11.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.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 (2022), “Comment to the new regulations of housing rentals”, Revista del Instituto de Estudios Económicos, 3, 129-145.Arruñada, Benito (2023), “The Organization of Public Registries: A Comparative Analysis”, in Ernst Nordtveit (ed.), The Changing Role of Property Law: Rights, Values and Concepts, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 199-220.Arruñada, Benito, Marco Fabbri and Michael Faure (2021), “Land Titling and Litigation”, Journal of Law and Economics, 65(1), 131-156.Arruñada, Benito (2021), “Thresholds and Exceptions as Regulatory Failures”,in J.M. Delgado, E. Huerta and C. Ocaña, coord., Empresa, Economía y Sociedad: Homenaje a Vicente Salas Fumás, FUNCAS, Madrid, 2021, 319-42.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 (2017), “Property as Sequential Exchange: The Forgotten Limits of Private Contract,” Journal of Institutional Economics, 13(4), 753-83.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 (2015), “The Titling Role of Possession,” in Yun-chien Chang, ed., The Law and Economics of Possession, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 207-33.Arruñada, Benito (2014), “Registries,”Man and the Economy, 1(2), 209-30.Arruñada, Benito (2014), “Titling Systems,” in Alain Marciano and Giovanni Battista Ramello (eds.),Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, Springer.Arruñada, Benito (2014), “Theory and Policy of Public Registries,” ELRA, 5, 53-63.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 (2013), “The Institutions of Impersonal Exchange”(“Las instituciones del intercambio impersonal”),Revista Crítica de Derecho Inmobiliario,89(726), 649-87.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 (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, 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), “Leaky Title Syndrome?,” New Zealand Law Journal, April, 115-20.Arruñada, Benito (2010), “A Country of Unemployment and Self-service,” Cinco Días, April 1, p. 14.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 (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 (2009), “Specialization and Rent-Seeking in Moral Enforcement: The Case of Confession,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 48(3), 443-61.Arruñada, Benito (2007), “Market and Institutional Determinants in the Regulation of Conveyancers,” European Journal of Law and Economics, 23(2), 93-116.Arruñada, Benito, and Veneta Andonova (2005), “Market Institutions and Judicial Rulemaking,” in Claude Ménard and Mary M. Shirley, eds., Handbook of New Institutional Economics, Dordrecht, Springer, 229-250.Arruñada, Benito, and Nuno Garoupa (2005), “The Choice of Titling System in Land,” Journal of Law and Economics, 48(2), 709-27.Arruñada, Benito (2004), Titling Systems: An Organizational Analysis, Palestra, Lima.Arruñada, Benito (2003), “Property Enforcement as Organized Consent,” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 19(2), 401-44.Arruñada, Benito (2004), “Title Insurance,” Revista Crítica de Derecho Inmobiliario, 80(681), 53-141.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 (2000), "The Quasi-Judicial Role of Large Retailers: An Efficiency Hypothesis of their Relation with Suppliers," Revue d’Economie Industrielle, 92, 277-296.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 (1997), “The Criminalization of Corporate Law: A Critical Analysis,” Boletín del Círculo de Empresarios, 62, 99-132.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, and Cándido Paz-Ares (1995), “Conversion of Ordinary Shares into Non-Voting Shares,” International Review of Law and Economics, 15(4), 351-372.Arruñada, Benito (1992), “Coercive Conversions of Voting Shares into Non-Voting Shares,” Revista Española de Financiación y Contabilidad, 21, 283-314.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 (1992), "Towards a ‘Single Market’ for Corporate Control?," Información Comercial Española, 703, 144-70.Arruñada, Benito (1991), “Market vs. Regulation in the Market for Corporate Control: Interactions Between Takeovers and Industrial Policy in Spain,” in R. Pardolesi and R. Van den Bergh (eds.), Law and Economics: Some Further Insights, Giuffrè, Milan, 71-106.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. 
