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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
How social media can undermine democracy	40
How do recruiters assess applicants who express a political engagement?	38
What drives abnormal returns of stock markets in wartime? Evidence from 17 invasions	34
Unpleasant surprises? Elections and tax news shocks	34
The effect of populism on high-skilled migration: Evidence from inventors	32
Income, growth, and democracy looking for the main causal directions in the nexus	28
Labor market flexibility and exchange rate regimes	27
Editorial Board	25
The effects of inter-municipal cooperation and central grant allocation on the size of the French local public sector	23
Competition, benchmarking, and electoral success: Evidence from 69 years of the German Bundestag	23
Does international migration impact economic institutions at home?	22
Leaders, factions and the determinants of electoral success	22
How do the media scrutinise central banking? Evidence from the Bank of England	20
Does politics matter? A comparative assessment of discretionary fiscal policies in the euro area	20
Movin’ on up? A survey experiment on mobility enhancing policies	19
How does expropriation affect FDI? A synthetic control analysis of oil and gas sector nationalizations in South America	19
Delegation and the regulation of U.S. financial markets	18
Career incentives of local leaders and crisis response: A case study of COVID-19 lockdowns in China	18
Political connections and post-disaster assistance in rural Vietnam	18
Dominance and technology war	17
Explaining the stringency of environmental policies: Domestic determinants or international policy coordination?	17
Editorial Board	16
Editorial Board	16
Life of the party: The polarizing effect of foreign direct investment	16
The political economy of international conflict and cooperation: A special issue in honor of Heinrich W. Ursprung	15

All you need is political love? Assessing the effects of partisan favouritism in Croatia's public procurement	15
Can biased polls distort electoral results? Evidence from the lab	14
On the duration of empires	14
Unleashing potential: Model-based reform benchmarking for EU Member States	13
Direct elections and trust in state and political institutions: Evidence from Indonesia's election reform	13
Taxation with representation: Understanding natives’ attitudes to foreigners’ voting rights	13
Economic growth, equilibrium welfare, and public goods provision with intergenerational altruism	13
Determinants of compliance with fiscal rules: Misplaced efforts or hidden motivations?	13
Anti-corruption campaign in China: An empirical investigation	12
Electoral quotas and developmental outcomes: Evidence from India	12
Political institutions and output collapses	11
Economic sanctions and sovereign debt default	11
Interest-rate setting and communication at the ECB in its first twenty years	10
Wealth inequality and mega events	10
The Commission and the Council Presidency in the European Union: Strategic interactions and legislative powers	10
Political tenure, term limits and corruption	10
The price of silence: Media competition, capture, and electoral accountability	10
Geopolitical shocks and commodity market dynamics: New evidence from the Russia-Ukraine conflict	10
Parenthood and political engagement	10
Strategic inefficiencies and federal redistribution during uncoordinated response to pandemic waves	10
Rewarding good political behavior: US aid, democracy, and human rights	9
Divided government, polarization, and policy: Regression-discontinuity evidence from US states	9
The political economy of firm emissions: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	9
Priming attitudes toward immigrants: Implications for migration research and survey design	9
Politically induced uncertainty and asset-market valuation	9
Does a district mandate matter for the behavior of politicians? An analysis of roll-call votes and parliamentary speeches	8
COVID-19 fatalities and internal conflict: Does government economic support matter?	8
Anchored or de-anchored? That is the question	8
Short and long run democracy diffusion	8
Opportunistic privatization	8
Birthplace favoritism and the distribution of budget amendments in Brazil: Evidence from nondistrict elections	8
Logistic hubs and support for radical-right populism: Evidence from Italy	8
Party selectors, voters, and the choice of productive representatives under different types of list proportional representation	8
Fiscal decentralization and structural versus cyclical unemployment levels	8
Will the real populists please stand up? A machine learning index of party populism	8
Political Parties’ Ideological Bias and Convergence in Economic Outcome.	7
Self-selecting candidates or compelling voters: How organized crime affects political selection	7
Strategic voting on tax policy: Direct vs representative democracy in the laboratory	7
Deeds or words? The local influence of anti-immigrant parties on foreigners’ flows	7
Do fiscal rules need budget transparency to be effective?	7
Online social media and populism in Europe	7
Financial openness, capital rents and income inequality	7
The distributional impact of local banking. Evidence from the financial and sovereign-debt crises	7
Wage bargaining structure and political budget cycles: A policy game approach	7
Revisiting the nexus between fiscal decentralization and government size - The role of ethnic fragmentation	7
Well-being foundations of populism in Europe	7
Voters’ influence on local tax policy	6
Identity, social media and online political activism	6
Financial returns to collecting rare political economy books	6
Institutions, assortative matching and cultural evolution	6

Fines for unequal societies	6
Social trust and the advanced aspects of social progress. Evidence for the European regions	6
Do party ties increase transfer receipts in cooperative federalism? – Evidence from Germany	6
The political economy of lockdown: Does free media matter?	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
The economic consequences of businesspeople in politics: A survey	6
Do public account financial statements matter? Evidence from Japanese municipalities	6
Grants-in-aid and election outcomes in recipient jurisdictions: The impact of EU funds on mayoral elections in Poland	6
Bread and the dilemmas of socialist paternalism in Israel, 1948–1977	5
Fear of inflation and gender representation in central banking	5
Gender differences in politician persistence and incumbency advantage	5
Religion and unproductive entrepreneurship: The role of risk aversion	5
Anti-corruption campaign and economic growth in Chinese cities: The dichotomous mechanism of network-based political competition	5
Gloomy future, gloomy sky: Promotion incentives and pollution in China	5
Letting third parties who suffer from petty corruption talk: Evidence from a collusive bribery experiment	5
Does ethnic diversity always undermine pro-social behavior? Evidence from a laboratory experiment	5
In Memoriam: Heinrich W. Ursprung 1951–2021	5
Kinship ties and female political participation: The case of Philippine mayors	5
Causal factors of terrorist attacks on countries, and corresponding spill-overs between them	5
Influence of political movement on fields of study: Evidence from Hong Kong	5
Surfing the credit wave: Government popularity as driver of credit cycles	5
Assessing the ethics of prison policies to ensure human rights compliance: Suicides and self-inflicted critical events in Italian prisons	5
Studying more to vote less. Education and voter turnout in Italy	5
The accountability gap: Deliberation on monetary policy in Britain and America during the financial crisis	5
Political referenda and investment: Evidence from Scotland	5
A social image theory of information acquisition, opinion formation, and voting	5
Delegation in a multi-tier court system: Are remands in the U.S. federal courts driven by moral hazard?	5
Editorial Board	5
Reforms of collective bargaining institutions in European Union countries: Bad timing, bad outcomes?	5
Environmental regulation, political incentives, and mortality in China	5
Stock market spillovers of global risks and hedging opportunities	5
Inequality aversion and government health expenditure	5
Your vote is (no) secret! How low voter density hurts anonymity and biases elections in Italy	5
Households’ inflation expectations and concern about climate change	5
Strategic compromise, policy bundling and interest group power: Theory and evidence on education policy	5
Can health passport overcome political hurdles to COVID-19 vaccination?	5
Institutional design and spatial (in)equality — The Janus face of economic integration	5
Do personal characteristics of councilors affect municipal budget allocation?	5
District versus at-large voting: Why district voting results in worse policy for minorities	5