OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Economic Perspectives is 6. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Credit, Debt-Deflation, and the Great Depression Revisited	276
Migration and Innovation: Learning from Patent and Inventor Data	266
Front Matter	209
Popular Personal Financial Advice versus the Professors	200
Economic Markets and Pharmaceutical Innovation	158
American Enslavement and the Recovery of Black Economic History	136
Occupational Licensing in the United States	134
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and Economic Research	131
Recommendations for Further Reading	116
The Failure of Silicon Valley Bank and the Panic of 2023	107
Why Did the Best Prepared Country in the World Fare So Poorly during COVID?	92
COVID-19, School Closures, and Outcomes	82
US Corporate Bond Markets: Bigger and (Maybe) Better?	69
Financial Sanctions, SWIFT, and the Architecture of the International Payment System	67
Blending Theory and Data: A Space Odyssey	66
Front Matter	66
Global Labor Mobility between Shrinking and Growing Labor Forces	64
Retrospectives: W. E. B. Du Bois, Harvard Economics, and Marginalist Wage Theory	59
Early Career Paths of Economists Inside and Outside of Academia	58
How Regional Inequality and Migration Drive Housing Prices and Rents	58
Building Costs and House Prices	56
How Economists Could Help Inform Economic and Budget Analysis Used by the US Congress	54
Children and the US Social Safety Net: Balancing Disincentives for Adults and Benefits for Children	51
How Can Lower-Income Countries Collect More Taxes? The Role of Technology, Tax Agents, and Politics	50
Designing Simple Mechanisms	48

Recommendations for Further Reading	48
Front Matter	46
From Asia, with Skills	46
The Changing Firm and Country Boundaries of US Manufacturers in Global Value Chains	45
Industrial Policy: Lessons from Shipbuilding	43
Front Matter	42
Export-Led Industrial Policy for Developing Countries: Is There a Way to Pick Winners?	41
Government Data of the People, by the People, for the People: Navigating Citizen Privacy Concerns	39
Semiconductors and Modern Industrial Policy	37
Overreaction and Diagnostic Expectations in Macroeconomics	37
Changes in the Distribution of Black and White Wealth since the US Civil War	37
The Economics of Generic Drug Shortages: The Limits of Competition	36
Administrative Burdens in the Social Safety Net	33
Seeking the “Missing Women” of Economics with the Undergraduate Women in Economics Challenge	32
Front Matter	31
Family Institutions and the Global Fertility Transition	31
What Went Wrong with Federal Student Loans?	30
Why Is the Fragmented Municipal Bond Market So Costly to Investors and Issuers?	30
Evaluating Behavioral Incentive Compatibility: Insights from Experiments	30
Curbing Rising Housing Costs: A Model-Based Policy Comparison	28
Retrospectives: Margaret Reid, Chicago, and Permanent Income	28
The Economics of Noncompete Clauses	28
Front Matter	28
Emerging Market Sovereign Debt in the Aftermath of the Pandemic	28
The Prices in the Crises: What We Are Learning from 20 Years of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	27
Sovereign Debt and Fiscal Integration in the European Union	27
Sweeping Changes and an Uncertain Legacy: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017	26
The World Bank’s East Asian Miracle : Too Much a Product of Its Time?	25
Danish Flexicurity: Rights and Duties	24
Slavery and the Rise of the Nineteenth-Century American Economy	24
Are Opportunity Zones an Effective Place-Based Policy?	23
What Can Historically Black Colleges and Universities Teach about Improving Higher Education Outcomes for Black Students?	23
Behavioral Incentive Compatibility and Empirically Informed Welfare Analysis: An Introductory Guide	22
Skilled Immigrants, Firms, and the Global Geography of Innovation	22
Front Matter	22
A Social Insurance Perspective on Pandemic Fiscal Policy: Implications for Unemployment Insurance and Hazard Pay	22
Front Matter	21
How US Treasuries Can Remain the World’s Safe Haven	20
On the Economics of Extinction and Possible Mass Extinctions	20
Universal Early-Life Health Policies in the Nordic Countries	19
Recommendations for Further Reading	19
China’s Lending to Developing Countries: From Boom to Bust	19
America’s Continuing Struggle with Mental Illnesses: Economic Considerations	18
Protecting Antiquities: A Role for Long-Term Leases?	18
Lessons for the United States from Pharmaceutical Regulation Abroad	18
Recommendations for Further Reading	18
Front Matter	17
Measuring Human Capital	17
Recommendations for Further Reading	16
The 2023 Merger Guidelines and the Arc of Antitrust History	16

Compensating Wage Differentials in Labor Markets: Empirical Challenges and Applications	15
Basel Endgame: Bank Capital Requirements and the Future of International Standard Setting	15
Debt Revenue and the Sustainability of Public Debt	14
Facts and Fantasies about Wage Setting and Collective Bargaining	14
Measuring Income and Income Inequality	12
The Importance of Financial Literacy: Opening a New Field	12
Carbon Border Adjustments, Climate Clubs, and Subsidy Races When Climate Policies Vary	12
Is Pay Transparency Good?	11
The Economics of Electricity Reliability	10
Recommendations for Further Reading	10
A Linear Panel Model with Heterogeneous Coefficients and Variation in Exposure	9
Four Facts about Human Capital	9
Should We Insure Workers or Jobs During Recessions?	9
Front Matter	8
Why Do Retired Households Draw Down Their Wealth So Slowly?	8
Global Transportation Decarbonization	8
Did Welfare Reform End the Safety Net as We Knew It? The Record since 1996	8
Retrospectives: Friedman and Schwartz, Disaggregated	8
Unraveling the Hispanic Health Paradox	8
Retrospectives: Yair Mundlak and the Fixed Effects Estimator	8
Acquisitions to Enter New Markets	8
Is There Any Future for a US Labor Movement?	7
The US Individual Income Tax: Recent Evolution and Evidence	7
Public Finance Implications of Economic Inequality	7
Are Developed Countries Outsourcing Pollution?	6
Quantitative Urban Models: From Theory to Data	6
Recommendations for Further Reading	6
Intangible Capital and Modern Economies	6