OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Political Economy is 5. 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
The political economy of international conflict and cooperation: A special issue in honor of Heinrich W. Ursprung	49
Taxation with representation: Understanding natives’ attitudes to foreigners’ voting rights	41
Editorial Board	39
Political tenure, term limits and corruption	35
Rewarding good political behavior: US aid, democracy, and human rights	34
The political economy of firm emissions: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	31
Strategic inefficiencies and federal redistribution during uncoordinated response to pandemic waves	30
Unpleasant surprises? Elections and tax news shocks	27
The price of silence: Media competition, capture, and electoral accountability	27
Logistic hubs and support for radical-right populism: Evidence from Italy	26
Determinants of compliance with fiscal rules: Misplaced efforts or hidden motivations?	25
Income, growth, and democracy looking for the main causal directions in the nexus	24
Political connections and post-disaster assistance in rural Vietnam	24
Spend on what? Insights on military spending efficiency	23
Anchored or de-anchored? That is the question	23
Don't shoot yourself in the foot! A (real-effort task) experiment on income redistribution and voting	23
Inequality aversion and government health expenditure	22
Do personal characteristics of councilors affect municipal budget allocation?	22
Religion and unproductive entrepreneurship: The role of risk aversion	21
The political economy of lockdown: Does free media matter?	20
Your vote is (no) secret! How low voter density hurts anonymity and biases elections in Italy	20
Gender differences in politician persistence and incumbency advantage	19
Grants-in-aid and election outcomes in recipient jurisdictions: The impact of EU funds on mayoral elections in Poland	18
Editorial Board	18
The perceived impact of immigration on native workers’ labour market outcomes	17

Regulation and income inequality in the United States	17
Reform windfall as redistribution: A survey experiment on redistributive preferences in contemporary China	17
The COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on voter turnout	17
Education and tolerance towards Homosexuality—Evidence from China	16
Editorial Board	16
When citizens legalize drugs	15
Discretion and public procurement outcomes in Europe*	15
Perceived position on the social ladder and redistributive preferences – A survey experiment from the Kyrgyz Republic	15
Judicial independence: Why does de facto diverge from de jure?	15
Restrictions to civil liberties in a pandemic and satisfaction with democracy	15
Democracy favors access to credit of firms	14
The effect of ethnic diversity on the participation in social groups: Evidence from trade unions	14
Political instability and economic growth: Causation and transmission	14
Editorial Board	14
Geopolitical risk and stock prices	14
Black representation and the popular legitimacy of the Federal Reserve	13
Geopolitical Risks, Political Tensions and the European Economy	13
Chinese aid in Africa: Attitudes and conflict	12
The impact of economic sanctions on bilateral mergers and acquisitions	12
Corruption and assortative matching of partners in international trade	11
Preference for redistribution during structural change with labor mobility frictions	11
Stock markets and economic uncertainty: Roles of legislative sessions and coalition strength	11
Rara Avis: Latin American populism in the 21st century	10
The consequences of CIA-sponsored regime change in Latin America	10
The heterogeneous effects of internet voting	10
Electoral competition with fake news	10
Political polarization and international cooperation	10
Lady Justice: The impact of female judges on jury trial verdicts in North Carolina	10
Clearing the smog ceiling: The impact of women’s political empowerment on air quality in European regions	10
Political competition in dynamic economies	10
Bureaucracy and labor market inefficiency: A contest model	9
Political influence, central bank independence and inflation in Africa: A comparative analysis	9
Farewell President! Political favoritism, economic inequality, and political polarization	9
Non-trade provisions in trade agreements and FDI	9
Scarring effects of major economic downturns: The role of fiscal policy and government investment	9
The institutional impact of left-leaning populism in Latin America	9
Editorial Board	9
When do more selfish politicians manipulate less, not more?	9
Why do (some) ordinary Americans support tax cuts for the rich? Evidence from a randomised survey experiment	9
Why do voters elect criminal politicians?	9
Editorial Board	9
Press freedom, market information, and international trade	9
Macroeconomic effects from media coverage of the China–U.S. trade war on selected EU countries	8
Duration and competing-risks determinants of terrorist hostage-taking incidents	8
Too afraid to vote? The effects of COVID-19 on voting behaviour	8
Inclusive institutions, unequal outcomes: Democracy, state capacity, and income inequality	8
Government response to increased demand for public services: The cyclicality of government health expenditures in the OECD	8
State Building and Social Control	8
Territorial state capacity and elite violence from the 6th to the 19th century	8
Silver lining of the water: The role of government relief assistance in disaster recovery	8

Pension reform preferences in Germany: Does information matter?	8
The transition of education a cross-country macro analysis	8
Career incentives of local leaders and crisis response: A case study of COVID-19 lockdowns in China	7
Leaders, factions and the determinants of electoral success	7
Electoral corruption cycles: Separating perceptions and experiences across households and experts	7
Gloomy future, gloomy sky: Promotion incentives and pollution in China	7
Does international migration impact economic institutions at home?	7
How do recruiters assess applicants who express a political engagement?	7
Identity, social media and online political activism	7
Party selectors, voters, and the choice of productive representatives under different types of list proportional representation	7
Dominance and technology war	7
Financial openness, capital rents and income inequality	7
Rules alone won't do: Empirical evidence on sanction mechanisms of fiscal rules and political budget cycles	7
Financial returns to collecting rare political economy books	7
Does a district mandate matter for the behavior of politicians? An analysis of roll-call votes and parliamentary speeches	7
Social mobility and political stability	6
Bread and the dilemmas of socialist paternalism in Israel, 1948–1977	6
Revisiting the relationship between economic freedom and development to account for statistical deception by autocratic regimes	6
Beyond the party push: Gender differences in voters’ persuasion	6
Wage bargaining structure and political budget cycles: A policy game approach	6
Self-selecting candidates or compelling voters: How organized crime affects political selection	6
Campaigning for retirement: State teacher union campaign contributions and pension generosity	6
Strategic compromise, policy bundling and interest group power: Theory and evidence on education policy	6
Why do people from wealthy countries migrate?	6
Bias and careers: Evidence from the aid effectiveness literature	6
Local connectivity and corruption: Micro evidence from China	6
An unconsidered leave? Inequality aversion and the brexit referendum	6
Does inter-municipal cooperation reduce the intensity of tax competition? Evidence on inter-local industrial parks in Germany	6
Political economy of taxation, debt ceilings, and growth	6
Fear of inflation and gender representation in central banking	6
Legislators in the crossfire: Strategic non-voting and the effect of transparency	6
Decentralization, social capital, and regional growth: The case of the Italian North-South divide	6
Do strong oligopolies reverse Green Paradox effects?	6
Does government spending efficiency improve fiscal sustainability?	5
The effect of international development association's (IDA) aid on conflict. A fuzzy regression discontinuity approach	5
Breaking the silence: The effects of online social movements on gender-based violence	5
Editorial Board	5
Equilibrium communication in political scandals	5
Do your tax problems make tax evasion seem more justifiable? Evidence from a survey experiment	5
Openness and the welfare state: risk and income effects in protection without protectionism	5
Choosing not to lead: Monetary incentives and political selection in local parliamentary systems	5
Transition to broader-based politics: The role of suffrage extension in early 20th century Japan	5
Globalization and fiscal policy after financial crises	5
Part-time parliamentarians? Evidence from outside earnings and parliamentary activities	5
Debt policies in the aftermath of COVID-19 — The SGP’s debt benchmark revisited	5
Consequences of Thailand’s 2006 military coup: Evidence from the synthetic control method	5
Immigration vs. poverty: Causal impact on demand for redistribution in a survey experiment	5
The grass is always greener on the other side: (Unfair) inequality and support for democracy	5
Economic freedom and the greenhouse gas Kuznets curve	5
Exploring macroeconomic imbalances through EU Alert Mechanism Reports	5
Trust in a national anti-corruption agency: A survey experiment among citizens and experts	5
The impact of distance on parochial altruism: An experimental investigation	5
Governments manipulate official Statistics: Institutions matter	5
Non-random selection into entrepreneurship in the realm of government decentralization and corruption	5
Tax liability side equivalence and time delayed externalities	5
Measuring partisan media bias in US newscasts from 2001 to 2012	5
Regime change and critical junctures	5
Are the supporters of socialism the losers of capitalism? Conformism in East Germany and transition success	5
Social media networks, fake news, and polarization	5
Editorial Board	5
Islamist terrorism and the status of women	5
Upstream effects of female political reservations	5
Revisiting forced migration: A machine learning perspective	5
Household expectations and dissent among policymakers	5
Crash for cash: Offshore financial destinations and IMF programs	5
Turnout in concurrent elections: Evidence from two quasi-experiments in Italy	5
Defending election victory by attacking company revenues: The impact of elections on the international defense industry	5
Consistent flexibility: Enforcement of deficit rules through political incentives	5
The consequences of hosting asylum seekers for citizens’ policy preferences	5
The 2015 refugee inflow and concerns over immigration	5
Can women's performance in elections determine the engagement of adolescent girls in politics?	5
OECD pension reform: The role of demographic trends and the business cycle	5
Transitive delegation in social networks: Theory and experiment	5