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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Female political representation and substantive effects on policies: A literature review	79
Do fiscal rules cause better fiscal balances? A new instrumental variable strategy	36
Perception vs. experience: Explaining differences in corruption measures using microdata	29
Perceptions of inequality	28
Too afraid to vote? The effects of COVID-19 on voting behaviour	27
Vertical fiscal imbalance and local fiscal indiscipline: Empirical evidence from China	24
Entrepreneurship, fear of failure, and economic policy	21
Natural disasters and electoral outcomes	21
The impact of local financial development on firm growth in Vietnam: Does the level of corruption matter?	21
Politically connected firms and privileged access to credit: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe	19
Market competition, lobbying influence and environmental externalities	19
Gender, attractiveness, and judgment of impropriety: The case of accountants	18
Varieties of authoritarianism matter: Elite fragmentation, natural resources and economic growth	18
Public opinion on immigration in Europe: Preference and salience	18
Using Machine Learning for measuring democracy: A practitioners guide and a new updated dataset for 186 countries from 1919 to 2019	16
Tax evasion and tax morale: A social network analysis	16
Exposure to corruption and political participation: Evidence from Italian municipalities	16
The COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on voter turnout	16
Do unhappy citizens vote for populism?	15
Gender quotas and the selection of local politicians: Evidence from French municipal elections	15
Low-wage import competition and populist backlash: The case of Italy	15
“The mother of all political problems”? On asylum seekers and elections	15
Foreign aid and the quality of economic institutions	15
General or central government? Empirical evidence on political cycles in budget composition using new data for OECD countries	14
The political economy of IMF conditionality and central bank independence	14

Fiscal rules and budget forecast errors of Italian municipalities	13
Do fiscal rules need budget transparency to be effective?	13
Do the ECB's introductory statements help predict monetary policy? Evidence from a tone analysis	13
Political accountability and public service delivery in decentralized Indonesia: Incumbency advantage and the performance of second term mayors	13
Liberalizing art. Evidence on the Impressionists at the end of the Paris Salon	12
Social media networks, fake news, and polarization	12
Mortgage market credit conditions and U.S. Presidential elections	12
Do national political parties matter? Evidence from Italian municipalities	12
Investment in trade facilitating infrastructure: A political-economy analysis	11
The political and institutional determinants of fiscal adjustments and expansions: Evidence for a large set of countries	11
Inclusive institutions, unequal outcomes: Democracy, state capacity, and income inequality	11
Regulation and income inequality in the United States	11
Income inequality and income bias in voter turnout	11
The effects of mafia infiltration on public procurement performance	10
The influence of political fragmentation on public enterprises: Evidence from German municipalities	10
Sharing the gains of transition: Evaluating changes in income inequality and redistribution in Poland using combined survey and tax return data	10
European development banks and the political cycle	10
Trust in the ECB: Drivers and consequences	10
How do the factors determining terrorist groups’ longevity differ from those affecting their success?	10
Biases in fiscal multiplier estimates	10
Political voice on monetary policy: Evidence from the parliamentary hearings of the European Central Bank	10
Race to burn the last ton of carbon and the risk of stranded assets	10
Russian power and the state-owned enterprise	9
Revisiting forced migration: A machine learning perspective	9
Savings from public procurement centralization in the healthcare system	9
Corporate tax competition: A meta-analysis	9
Does clarity make central banks more engaging? Lessons from ECB communications	9
Political influence, central bank independence and inflation in Africa: A comparative analysis	9
Believers vs. deniers: Climate change and environmental policy polarization	9
Are Democracies Cleaner?	9
Economic downturns, inequality, and democratic improvements	9
Terrorism and international economic policy	9
Unbundling the effect of political instability on income redistribution	9
Perception of corruption and public support for redistribution in Latin America	8
Fear of inflation and gender representation in central banking	8
Attitudes towards euro area reforms: Evidence from a randomized survey experiment	8
Depression of the deprived or eroding enthusiasm of the elites: What has shifted the support for international trade?	8
Government response to increased demand for public services: The cyclicality of government health expenditures in the OECD	8
Women and local public finance	8
COVID-19 fatalities and internal conflict: Does government economic support matter?	8
Election systems, the “beauty premium” in politics, and the beauty of dissent	7
Does government spending efficiency improve fiscal sustainability?	7
The democratization process: An empirical appraisal of the role of political protest	7
Policy tolerance of economic crime? An empirical analysis of the effect of counterfeiting on Italian trade	7
Intragenerational deliberation and intergenerational sustainability dilemma	7
Collective vs. individual lobbying	7
The transition of corruption institutions and dynamics	7
Real-time fiscal policy responses in the OECD from 1997 to 2018: Procyclical but sustainable?	7
The financial market impact of ECB monetary policy press conferences — A text based approach	7
Politicians at higher levels of government are perceived as more corrupt	7

Political ideology and the intragenerational prospect of upward mobility	6
Individualism and political instability	6
The political economy of the G20 agenda on financial regulation	6
Encouraging skill development: Evidence from public-private partnerships in education in Russia’s regions	6
The effectiveness of fiscal institutions: International financial flogging or domestic constraint?	6
Fiscal consolidations and electoral outcomes in emerging economies: Does the policy mix matter? Macro and micro level evidence from Latin America	6
Preferences for redistribution and exposure to tax-benefit schemes in Europe	6
What constitutes a constitutional amendment culture?	6
Corruption and legislature size: Evidence from Brazil	6
Debt policies in the aftermath of COVID-19 — The SGP’s debt benchmark revisited	6
On the political economy of minority rights. Three ways to manipulate a minority: Goals, rules, and border poles	6
Economic, social and political fragmentation: Linking knowledge-biased growth, identity, populism and protectionism	6
Turnout in concurrent elections: Evidence from two quasi-experiments in Italy	6
Information provision and preferences for education spending: Evidence from representative survey experiments in three countries	6
Political favoritism by powerful politicians: Evidence from chief ministers in India	6
Explaining destinations and volumes of international arms transfers: A novel network Heckman selection model	6
The economic effects of political disintegration: Lessons from Serbia and Montenegro	6
The political economy of firm emissions: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	6
The supply of media slant across outlets and demand for slant within outlets: Evidence from US presidential campaign news	5
The consequences of hosting asylum seekers for citizens’ policy preferences	5
Geopolitics and rare earth metals	5
Are social and environmental clauses a tool for favoritism? Analysis of French public procurement contracts	5
The causal effects of rule of law & property rights on fiscal capacity	5
Positioning and negotiations: The case of pharmaceutical pricing	5
The generation gap in direct democracy: Age vs. cohort effects	5
Politics of trade protection in an autocracy: Evidence from an EU tariff liberalization in Morocco	5
Political forecast cycles	5
Economic growth, equilibrium welfare, and public goods provision with intergenerational altruism	5
To vote, or not to vote? Electoral campaigns and the spread of COVID-19	5
The political economy of productivity growth	5
Health spending in Italy: The impact of immigrants	5
Sharks and minnows in a shoal of words: Measuring latent ideological positions based on text mining techniques	5
The unintended composition effect of the subnational government fiscal rules: The case of Italian municipalities	5
A corruption risk indicator for public procurement	5
Simple Markovian equilibria in dynamic spatial legislative bargaining	5
Reelection, growth and public debt	5
Entrepreneurship, trust and corruption	5
Revisiting the nexus between fiscal decentralization and government size - The role of ethnic fragmentation	5
Delegation and the regulation of U.S. financial markets	5
Temporary partnership and subcontracting: Pre- vs. post- award outsourcing in public procurement	5
Does democratic progress deter terrorist incidents?	5
How do electoral and voice accountability affect corruption? Experimental evidence from Egypt	5
Chasing votes with the public budget	5
Can judicial efficiency improve territorial attractiveness to FDI? The Italian experience	5
Voting under threat: Evidence from the 2020 French local elections	5
Financial returns to collecting rare political economy books	5
The institutions of international treaty organizations as evidence for social contract theory	5
Heterogeneity in preferences for redistribution and public spending: A cross-country analysis	5
Taxation with representation: Understanding natives’ attitudes to foreigners’ voting rights	5