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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The political economy of firm emissions: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	69
Rewarding good political behavior: US aid, democracy, and human rights	61
Editorial Board	55
Geopolitical spillover: The Russia–Ukraine invasion and its effects on money market funds	45
Unpleasant surprises? Elections and tax news shocks	44
Stock returns of federal reserve officials	39
Political connections and post-disaster assistance in rural Vietnam	35
Political tenure, term limits and corruption	33
Income, growth, and democracy looking for the main causal directions in the nexus	30
Spend on what? Insights on military spending efficiency	29
Taxation with representation: Understanding natives’ attitudes to foreigners’ voting rights	29
Logistic hubs and support for radical-right populism: Evidence from Italy	28
Determinants of compliance with fiscal rules: Misplaced efforts or hidden motivations?	28
Editorial Board	28
Gender differences in politician persistence and incumbency advantage	27
The political economy of lockdown: Does free media matter?	25
Your vote is (no) secret! How low voter density hurts anonymity and biases elections in Italy	24
Don't shoot yourself in the foot! A (real-effort task) experiment on income redistribution and voting	23
The COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on voter turnout	22
Inequality aversion and government health expenditure	20
Regulation and income inequality in the United States	19
The perceived impact of immigration on native workers’ labour market outcomes	18
When citizens legalize drugs	17
Perceived position on the social ladder and redistributive preferences – A survey experiment from the Kyrgyz Republic	17
Hawks and Doves: Financial market perception of Western support for Ukraine	17

Judicial independence: Why does de facto diverge from de jure?	17
Education and tolerance towards Homosexuality—Evidence from China	17
Democracy favors access to credit of firms	16
Restrictions to civil liberties in a pandemic and satisfaction with democracy	16
Editorial Board	16
Buy when there’s blood in the streets: How geopolitical adverse events can push defense stock returns to the extreme	15
Editorial Board	15
Reform windfall as redistribution: A survey experiment on redistributive preferences in contemporary China	14
Political connections and participation in global value chains: Evidence from MENA firms	14
Political instability and economic growth: Causation and transmission	13
Discretion and public procurement outcomes in Europe*	13
Geopolitical risk and stock prices	13
Term limits and corruption: Evidence from U.S. states	13
Editorial Board	12
Geopolitical Risks, Political Tensions and the European Economy	12
The effect of ethnic diversity on the participation in social groups: Evidence from trade unions	12
Doom loop, trilemma, and moral hazard: Which narrative of the banking union did stock market investors buy?	12
Threshold of shadows: Unveiling organised crime in Italian municipal public procurement	12
Black representation and the popular legitimacy of the Federal Reserve	12
Lady Justice: The impact of female judges on jury trial verdicts in North Carolina	12
Stock markets and economic uncertainty: Roles of legislative sessions and coalition strength	12
Political polarization and international cooperation	11
Corruption and assortative matching of partners in international trade	11
When do more selfish politicians manipulate less, not more?	11
Political competition in dynamic economies	11
The heterogeneous effects of internet voting	10
The impact of economic sanctions on bilateral mergers and acquisitions	10
Editorial Board	10
Non-trade provisions in trade agreements and FDI	10
Why do voters elect criminal politicians?	10
Bureaucracy and labor market inefficiency: A contest model	10
Farewell President! Political favoritism, economic inequality, and political polarization	10
The consequences of CIA-sponsored regime change in Latin America	10
Clearing the smog ceiling: The impact of women’s political empowerment on air quality in European regions	10
Press freedom, market information, and international trade	10
Macroeconomic effects from media coverage of the China–U.S. trade war on selected EU countries	10
The institutional impact of left-leaning populism in Latin America	10
Electoral competition with fake news	10
Preference for redistribution during structural change with labor mobility frictions	10
Chinese aid in Africa: Attitudes and conflict	10
Editorial Board	10
Scarring effects of major economic downturns: The role of fiscal policy and government investment	10
Why do (some) ordinary Americans support tax cuts for the rich? Evidence from a randomised survey experiment	10
Pension reform preferences in Germany: Does information matter?	9
Financial openness, capital rents and income inequality	9
How do recruiters assess applicants who express a political engagement?	9
Dominance and technology war	9
Career incentives of local leaders and crisis response: A case study of COVID-19 lockdowns in China	9
Silver lining of the water: The role of government relief assistance in disaster recovery	9
Rules alone won't do: Empirical evidence on sanction mechanisms of fiscal rules and political budget cycles	9

Electoral corruption cycles: Separating perceptions and experiences across households and experts	9
Leaders, factions and the determinants of electoral success	9
Strategic compromise, policy bundling and interest group power: Theory and evidence on education policy	9
The transition of education a cross-country macro analysis	9
Party selectors, voters, and the choice of productive representatives under different types of list proportional representation	9
Does a district mandate matter for the behavior of politicians? An analysis of roll-call votes and parliamentary speeches	9
Flooding the vote: Heterogeneous voting responses to a natural disaster in Germany	9
Does inter-municipal cooperation reduce the intensity of tax competition? Evidence on inter-local industrial parks in Germany	9
State building and social control	9
Self-selecting candidates or compelling voters: How organized crime affects political selection	8
Why do people from wealthy countries migrate?	8
Corrupt reserve prices	8
Bread and the dilemmas of socialist paternalism in Israel, 1948–1977	8
Fear of inflation and gender representation in central banking	8
Gloomy future, gloomy sky: Promotion incentives and pollution in China	8
Revisiting the relationship between economic freedom and development to account for statistical deception by autocratic regimes	8
Do strong oligopolies reverse Green Paradox effects?	8
Wage bargaining structure and political budget cycles: A policy game approach	8
An unconsidered leave? Inequality aversion and the brexit referendum	8
Social mobility and political stability	8
Physical vs. institutional public goods provision: Evidence from China	8
Getting it right: Communication, voting, and collective truth finding	8
Debt policies in the aftermath of COVID-19 — The SGP’s debt benchmark revisited	7
Islamist terrorism and the status of women	7
Legislators in the crossfire: Strategic non-voting and the effect of transparency	7
Local connectivity and corruption: Micro evidence from China	7
Editorial Board	7
Editorial Board	7
Upstream effects of female political reservations	7
Measuring partisan media bias in US newscasts from 2001 to 2012	7
Beyond the party push: Gender differences in voters’ persuasion	7
Identity, social media and online political activism	7
Bias and careers: Evidence from the aid effectiveness literature	7
Fiscal federalism and Cohesion Policy in the European Union NUTS-2 regions	7
Transitive delegation in social networks: Theory and experiment	7
Googling ‘inflation’: Household inflation attention across the euro area	7
Economic freedom and the greenhouse gas Kuznets curve	7
The consequences of hosting asylum seekers for citizens’ policy preferences	7
The effect of international development association's (IDA) aid on conflict. A fuzzy regression discontinuity approach	7
Decentralization, social capital, and regional growth: The case of the Italian North-South divide	7
Editorial Board	7
Does government spending efficiency improve fiscal sustainability?	7
Social media networks, fake news, and polarization	7
Consequences of Thailand’s 2006 military coup: Evidence from the synthetic control method	7
The “German Vote” and its consequences: (Un)reliable parties in multilateral bargaining under private information	7
Immigration vs. poverty: Causal impact on demand for redistribution in a survey experiment	7