OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Political Economy is 7. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	87
Geopolitical spillover: The Russia–Ukraine invasion and its effects on money market funds	85
Stock returns of federal reserve officials	83
Unpleasant surprises? Elections and tax news shocks	82
Logistic hubs and support for radical-right populism: Evidence from Italy	51
Income, growth, and democracy looking for the main causal directions in the nexus	48
The political economy of firm emissions: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	41
Determinants of compliance with fiscal rules: Misplaced efforts or hidden motivations?	40
Spend on what? Insights on military spending efficiency	38
Political tenure, term limits and corruption	36
Editorial Board	33
Political competition, party structure and economic growth: Theory and evidence from Indian states	33
Inequality aversion and government health expenditure	31
Your vote is (no) secret! How low voter density hurts anonymity and biases elections in Italy	31
The political economy of lockdown: Does free media matter?	25
The COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on voter turnout	23
Gender differences in politician persistence and incumbency advantage	21
Don't shoot yourself in the foot! A (real-effort task) experiment on income redistribution and voting	20
Restrictions to civil liberties in a pandemic and satisfaction with democracy	19
Editorial Board	19
When citizens legalize drugs	19
Education and tolerance towards Homosexuality—Evidence from China	18
Judicial independence: Why does de facto diverge from de jure?	18
Reform windfall as redistribution: A survey experiment on redistributive preferences in contemporary China	18
Hawks and Doves: Financial market perception of Western support for Ukraine	18

Buy when there’s blood in the streets: How geopolitical adverse events can push defense stock returns to the extreme	18
Editorial Board	18
Democracy favors access to credit of firms	17
Perceived position on the social ladder and redistributive preferences – A survey experiment from the Kyrgyz Republic	17
Geopolitical risk and stock prices	17
Term limits and corruption: Evidence from U.S. states	16
Discretion and public procurement outcomes in Europe*	16
Political instability and economic growth: Causation and transmission	15
Editorial Board	15
The impact of economic sanctions on bilateral mergers and acquisitions	15
Political connections and participation in global value chains: Evidence from MENA firms	15
Preference for redistribution during structural change with labor mobility frictions	15
The perceived impact of immigration on native workers’ labour market outcomes	15
Doom loop, trilemma, and moral hazard: Which narrative of the banking union did stock market investors buy?	14
Lady Justice: The impact of female judges on jury trial verdicts in North Carolina	14
Black representation and the popular legitimacy of the Federal Reserve	14
When do more selfish politicians manipulate less, not more?	13
The effect of ethnic diversity on the participation in social groups: Evidence from trade unions	13
Chinese aid in Africa: Attitudes and conflict	13
Electoral competition with fake news	13
Farewell President! Political favoritism, economic inequality, and political polarization	13
The consequences of CIA-sponsored regime change in Latin America	13
The heterogeneous effects of internet voting	13
Political polarization and international cooperation	13
Stock markets and economic uncertainty: Roles of legislative sessions and coalition strength	13
Editorial Board	13
Geopolitical Risks, Political Tensions and the European Economy	13
Political competition in dynamic economies	13
Threshold of shadows: Unveiling organised crime in Italian municipal public procurement	13
Clearing the smog ceiling: The impact of women’s political empowerment on air quality in European regions	13
Corruption and assortative matching of partners in international trade	13
Why do (some) ordinary Americans support tax cuts for the rich? Evidence from a randomised survey experiment	12
Editorial Board	12
Why do voters elect criminal politicians?	12
Trading budget deficits for public investment: Optimal deficit rules for present-biased governments	12
Macroeconomic effects from media coverage of the China–U.S. trade war on selected EU countries	12
Scarring effects of major economic downturns: The role of fiscal policy and government investment	12
Press freedom, market information, and international trade	12
Bureaucracy and labor market inefficiency: A contest model	12
Non-trade provisions in trade agreements and FDI	12
The institutional impact of left-leaning populism in Latin America	11
Silver lining of the water: The role of government relief assistance in disaster recovery	11
Flooding the vote: Heterogeneous voting responses to a natural disaster in Germany	11
State building and social control	11
Pension reform preferences in Germany: Does information matter?	11
Party selectors, voters, and the choice of productive representatives under different types of list proportional representation	11
Decomposing migration drivers: Push-pull effects of political, financial, and socioeconomic institutions versus network effects in OECD migration	11
The transition of education a cross-country macro analysis	11
Electoral corruption cycles: Separating perceptions and experiences across households and experts	11
Dominance and technology war	10

Wage bargaining structure and political budget cycles: A policy game approach	10
Bread and the dilemmas of socialist paternalism in Israel, 1948–1977	10
Getting it right: Communication, voting, and collective truth finding	10
How do recruiters assess applicants who express a political engagement?	10
Leaders, factions and the determinants of electoral success	10
Rules alone won't do: Empirical evidence on sanction mechanisms of fiscal rules and political budget cycles	10
Corrupt reserve prices	10
Revisiting the relationship between economic freedom and development to account for statistical deception by autocratic regimes	10
Career incentives of local leaders and crisis response: A case study of COVID-19 lockdowns in China	10
Identity, social media and online political activism	10
Gloomy future, gloomy sky: Promotion incentives and pollution in China	10
Physical vs. institutional public goods provision: Evidence from China	10
Crafting compliance – The role of inclusion and participation in constitution-making	9
An unconsidered leave? Inequality aversion and the brexit referendum	9
Social mobility and political stability	9
Editorial Board	9
Does inter-municipal cooperation reduce the intensity of tax competition? Evidence on inter-local industrial parks in Germany	9
Do strong oligopolies reverse Green Paradox effects?	9
Why do people from wealthy countries migrate?	9
Local connectivity and corruption: Micro evidence from China	9
Fear of inflation and gender representation in central banking	9
Strategic compromise, policy bundling and interest group power: Theory and evidence on education policy	9
Political budget cycles in federal systems: The case of India	9
Fiscal federalism and Cohesion Policy in the European Union NUTS-2 regions	8
Debt policies in the aftermath of COVID-19 — The SGP’s debt benchmark revisited	8
Does government spending efficiency improve fiscal sustainability?	8
Decentralization, social capital, and regional growth: The case of the Italian North-South divide	8
Editorial Board	8
Social media networks, fake news, and polarization	8
Beyond the party push: Gender differences in voters’ persuasion	8
Islamist terrorism and the status of women	8
Government size, economic freedom, and homicide rates: A cross-National analysis of 74 countries	8
Legislators in the crossfire: Strategic non-voting and the effect of transparency	8
The effect of international development association's (IDA) aid on conflict. A fuzzy regression discontinuity approach	8
Immigration vs. poverty: Causal impact on demand for redistribution in a survey experiment	8
Consequences of Thailand’s 2006 military coup: Evidence from the synthetic control method	8
The grass is always greener on the other side: (Unfair) inequality and support for democracy	7
Decoding discourse: Gendered heckling in German Bundestag debates (1949–2021)	7
Googling ‘inflation’: Household inflation attention across the euro area	7
Assessing the joint risks of fiscal crises and climate change	7
The 2015 refugee inflow and concerns over immigration	7
Defending election victory by attacking company revenues: The impact of elections on the international defense industry	7
Short-term rental bans and the hotel industry: Evidence from New York city	7
Regime change and critical junctures	7
Editorial Board	7
Distance matters: Geographical proximity and fiscal rules enforcement	7
Economic freedom and the greenhouse gas Kuznets curve	7
Legislative populism, ideological alignment, and human freedom	7
Choosing not to lead: Monetary incentives and political selection in local parliamentary systems	7
Part-time parliamentarians? Evidence from outside earnings and parliamentary activities	7
Globalization and fiscal policy after financial crises	7
The consequences of hosting asylum seekers for citizens’ policy preferences	7
Is local opposition taking the wind out of the energy transition?	7
The “German Vote” and its consequences: (Un)reliable parties in multilateral bargaining under private information	7
Transitive delegation in social networks: Theory and experiment	7
OECD pension reform: The role of demographic trends and the business cycle	7
Transition to broader-based politics: The role of suffrage extension in early 20th century Japan	7
Measuring partisan media bias in US newscasts from 2001 to 2012	7
Non-random selection into entrepreneurship in the realm of government decentralization and corruption	7