OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Review of Law and Economics is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Workload, legal doctrine, and judicial review in an authoritarian regime: A study of expropriation judgments in China	18
Scale and scope economies in first-instance courts: Portuguese specialized vs non-specialized courts	15
Strategic anarchy; a model of prison violence as a means to informal governance and rent extraction	14
Law and inequality: A comparative approach to the distributive implications of legal systems	12
Editorial Board	11
Selling and abandoning legal rights	11
Editorial Board	10
Editorial Board	9
Editorial Board	9
Proposal convergence and settlement under final offer arbitration	9
Liability and the incentive to improve information about risk when injurers may be judgment-proof	8
Law enforcement with motivated agents	6
The internet echo chamber and the misinformation of judges: The case of judges’ perception of public support for the death penalty in China	6
Entrepreneurs’ legal infractions and hidden information: Evidence from small business bankruptcies	6
Lost in election. How different electoral systems translate the voting gender gap into gender representation bias	5
Fighting free with free: Freemium vs. Piracy	5
Citizens united and individual sovereignty: A fresh perspective	5
Reinforcing data protection and competition through art. 6(2) of the Digital Markets Act	5
Editorial Board	5
Advance disclosure of insider transactions: Empirical evidence from the Vietnamese stock market	5
Estimating the effect of U.S. concealed carry laws on homicide: A replication and sensitivity analysis	4
Borrowers’ discouragement and creditor information	4
Crime and the Mariel Boatlift	4
Regulation and purchase diversity: Empirical evidence from the U.S. alcohol market	4
How acceptable is optimal deterrence?	4

Seemingly irrelevant information? The impact of legal team size on third party perceptions	4
Courts as monitoring agents: The case of China	4
Capital structure and the optimal payment methods in acquisitions	3
Litigation with adversarial efforts	3
Which companies pay more (or less) in legal fees? An empirical study of India	3
Authorial control of the Supreme Court: Chief Justice Roberts and the Obamacare surprise	3
Recourse restrictions and judicial foreclosures: Effects of mortgage law on loan price and collateralization	3
Non-compliance of the European Court of Human Rights decisions: A machine learning analysis	3
State versus federal wiretap orders: A look at the data	3
Optimal standards of proof in antitrust	3
Unequal unification? Income inequality and unification in nineteenth century Italy and Germany	3
A macrohistory of legal evolution and coevolution: Property, procedure, and contract in early-modern English caselaw	2
Corrigendum to “The Priest-Klein hypotheses: Proofs and generality” [Int. Rev. Law Econ. 48 (2016) 59–76]	2
The effects of reputational sanctions on culpable firms: Evidence from China’s stock markets	2
Optimal fine reductions for self-reporting: The impact of loss aversion	2
Should environment be a concern for competition policy when firms face environmental liability?	2
Is transparency a blessing or a curse? An experimental horse race between accountability and extortionary corruption	2
Crime, credible enforcement, and multiple equilibria	2
Counteracting offshore tax evasion: Evidence from the foreign account tax compliance act	2
Ethnolinguistic diversity, quality of local public institutions, and firm-level innovation	2
Predicting patent lawsuits with machine learning	2
ON THE DECLINE IN STATE POPULATION DISTRIBUTION: A COASEAN ROLE FOR SECTION 111 OF THE AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION?	2
Settled: Patent characteristics and litigation outcomes in the pharmaceutical industry	2
Allocating supervisory responsibilities to central bankers: Does national culture matter?	2
When more isn’t always better: The ambiguity of fully transparent judicial action and unrestricted publication rules	2
Allocating the common costs of a public service operator: An axiomatic approach	2
Editorial Board	2
Bayesian persuasion in lawyer–client communication	2
An inspector calls: On the optimality of warning firms about ongoing inspections in antitrust policy	2
Ban-the-box laws: Fair and effective?	2
Editorial Board	1
Mandatory employee board representation: Good news for family firms?	1
Competing with Leviathan: Law and government ownership in China’s public-private partnership market	1
A model of competitive self-regulation	1
How stock market reacts to environmental disasters and judicial decisions: A case study of Mariana’s dam collapse in Brazil	1
Taxing banks leverage and syndicated lending: A cross-country comparison	1
Could Chapter 11 redeem itself? Wealth and welfare effects of the redemption option	1
Ex-ante versus Ex-post in competition law enforcement: Blurred boundaries and economic rationale	1
Focus vs. spread: Police box consolidation and its impact on crime in Korea	1
A panel-based proxy for gun prevalence in US and Mexico	1
Editorial Board	1
Response to “Contracting for sex in the Pacific War” by J. Mark Ramseyer	1
The strategic interaction between cartels and anti-trust authorities	1
Ask more, awarded more: Evidence from Taiwan’s courts	1
Did the French reform of the judicial map affect conciliation activities?	1
Discovery, disclosure, and confidence	1
Consent or coordination? assemblies in early medieval Europe	1
Judiciary-driven finance: Quasi-experimental evidence from specialized financial adjudication institutions in China	1
Artificial intelligence, inattention and liability rules	1
The broken-windows theory of crime: A Bayesian approach	1

Beyond courts: Does strategic litigation affect climate change policy support?	1
Judicial compliance in district courts	1
Estimating the effect of concealed carry laws on murder: A response to Bondy, et al.	1
Editorial Board	1
The performance of corporate legal insider trading in the Korean market	1
Using experimental evidence to improve delegated enforcement	1
An economic rationale for the different methods of feeding enslaved people in the antebellum South and British West Indies	1
When do governments attack the judiciary? The explanatory power of political corruption	1
Girls Just Wanna Have Funds? The effect of women-friendly legislation on female-led firms’ access to credit	1
Bias in media coverage of antitrust actions	1
Resolution of corporate insolvency during COVID-19 pandemic. Evidence from France	1
Asymmetric solutions to asymmetric information problems	1
Accident avoidance and settlement bargaining: The role of reciprocity	1
Editorial Board	1
Do women drive corporate social responsibility? Evidence from gender diversity reforms around the world	1
Hospital multi-dimensional quality competition with medical malpractice	1
Elective corporate governance: Does board choice matter?	1
Does debt relief “irresistibly attract banks as honey attracts bees”? Evidence from low-income countries’ debt relief programs	1
Editorial Board	1
An ounce of prevention, a pound of cure: The effects of college expansions on crime	1
Editorial Board	1