The following articles have made the shortlist for this year’s Elinor Ostrom Prize:
Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell: "A machine-learning history of English caselaw and legal ideas prior to the Industrial Revolution I: generating and interpreting the estimates", JOIE 17(1): 1-19 and "A machine-learning history of English caselaw and legal ideas prior to the Industrial Revolution II: applications", JOIE 17(2): 201-216.
Veeshan Rayamajhee and Pablo Paniagua: "The Ostroms and the contestable nature of goods: beyond taxonomies and toward institutional polycentricity", JOIE 17(1): 71-89.
Sheilagh Ogilvie: "Thinking carefully about inclusiveness: evidence from European guilds", JOIE 17(2): 185-200.
Bronwyn Howell and Petrus Potgieter: "Uncertainty and dispute resolution for blockchain and smart contract institution", JOIE 17(4): 545-559.
Matthew T. Panhans and Reinhard Schumacher: "Theory in closer contact with industrial life: American institutional economists on competition theory and policy", JOIE 17(5): 781-798
The winner of this year's award will be announced at the Seventh WINIR Conference in September 2022.