OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Regional Science and Urban Economics is 8. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	105
Airbnb and rental markets: Evidence from Berlin	93
Hospital closure in urban and rural areas and patients’ welfare	89
Do municipal mergers reduce the cost of waste management? Evidence from Japan	62
Viewing urban spatial history from tall buildings	44
Roads, transit and spatial patterns of urbanization in São Paulo: Evidence from the second half of the twentieth century	36
Introduction to the Special Issue: "Urban economics and history"	35
Water infrastructure and health in U.S. cities	35
Spillover effects from new housing supply	35
Educational and gender heterogeneity of the rural-urban earnings premium: New evidence from Norway	35
European highway networks, transportation costs, and regional income	35
Editorial Board	33
Equal price for equal place? Demand-driven racial discrimination in the housing market	30
Firm sorting, clustering, and vertical disintegration: Evidence from China	30
Work-from-home and cities: An elementary spatial model	29
Immigrants' clusters and unequal access to healthcare treatments	29
Brand loyalty, managerial delegation and position choices: Bertrand versus Cournot competition	25
The virus that devastated tourism: The impact of covid-19 on the housing market	23
Empirical behaviour of Anselin et al.’s locally robust LM tests for spatial dependence in a panel data setting	22
Cities and water quality	22
City size, family migration, and gender wage gap: Evidence from rural–urban migrants in China	21
Local inequalities of the COVID-19 crisis	21
Agglomeration economies in developing countries: A meta-analysis	21
Estimating housing rent depreciation for inflation adjustments	20
The effects of a FAR regulation in a model of durable building with redevelopment: The case of New York City	20

Re-evaluating the urban wage premium: The changing roles of geographical and job transitions for women and men	20
Editorial Board	18
Introduction to special issue on rural-urban migration in honor of Harris and Todaro	18
Location of housing and industry around city centre amenities	17
Editorial Board	17
The prices of residential land in German counties	16
Cumulative impacts in environmental justice: Insights from economics and policy	16
What if you build it and they don't come? How the ghost of transit past haunts transit present	15
Evaluating the long-run effects of zoning reform on urban development	15
Inter-municipal cooperation cloud and tax administrative costs	15
Consumer salience and quality provision in (un)regulated public service markets	14
On the economic geography of an aging society	14
Decarbonizing passenger transportation in developing countries: Lessons and perspectives1	14
Do local businesses benefit from sports facilities? The case of major league sports stadiums and arenas	13
The effectiveness of job creation tax credits	13
Corrigendum to “Location preferences and slum formation: Evidence from a panel of residence histories” [Reg. Sci. Urban Econ., 97 (November 2022) 103816]	13
The effect of the earthquake in Central Italy on the depopulation of the affected territories	12
Interaction of public and private employment: Evidence from a German government move	12
Do households value lower density: Theory, evidence, and implications from Washington, DC	12
Property tax capitalization, a case study of Dallas County	12
The economics of China’s between-city height competition: A regression discontinuity approach	12
The impact of preferential farmland taxation on local public finances	12
Backward-bending labor supply and urban location	12
The carbon ‘carprint’ of urbanization: New evidence from French cities	12
Editorial Board	11
Data sharing and tax enforcement: Evidence from short-term rentals in Denmark	11
The response of regional well-being to place-based policy interventions	11
Learners in cities: Agglomeration and the spatial division of cognition	11
Rural-urban migration and house prices in China	11
Immigrants and entrepreneurship: A road for talent or just the only road?	11
Government policy and land price dynamics: A quantitative assessment of China’s factor market reforms	10
Persistence and variation of schools as housing amenities	10
Industrialization and urbanization in nineteenth century America	10
Understanding local government debt in China: A regional competition perspective	10
Reducing ethnic discrimination through formal warning: Evidence from two combined field experiments	10
Industrial structure in urban accounting	10
Employer-provided parking: Departure time choice, investment decision, and welfare effects	10
(In)efficient commuting and migration choices: Theory and policy in an urban search model	9
The housing market impacts of bicycle-sharing systems	9
Homeowner associations and city cohesion	9
Teleworking and housing demand	9
Aligning incentives: The effect of mortgage servicing rules on foreclosures and delinquency	9
Income segregation's impact on local public expenditures: Evidence from municipalities and school districts, 1980–2010	8
Editorial Board	8
Informal land markets and ethnic kinship in West African cities	8
Commuting barriers to low-wage employment	8
Cities with forking paths? Agglomeration economies in New Zealand 1976–2018	8
“Ghost cities” versus boom towns: Do China's high-speed rail new towns thrive?	8
Local constant-quality housing market liquidity indices	8
Environmental regulation, local labor market, and skill heterogeneity	8