OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of Law and Economics is 1. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Severance payments: main effects and determinants on the labour market	25
Pretrial detention and conviction	17
The impact of institutionalized representation: creditors' committees and the resolution of corporate liquidation bankruptcies	16
Stay or flee? Hit-and-run accidents, darkness and probability of punishment	14
Carrots, sticks, and environmental crime in Italy	13
Product liability for defective AI	13
Group causation theories and deterrence of tortious acts	12
Property rights on unused assets and investment incentives: evidence from Brazil	11
Data portability and interoperability: An E.U.-U.S. comparison	10
Introduction to the special issue on the importance of Simple Rules for a Complex World	10
Correction: Dismissal regulation and hiring and dismissal decisions: a decisive factor? the case of the French labor market reforms	9
To comply, or not to comply: the question is why	9
Seller liability versus platform liability: optimal liability rule and law enforcement in the platform economy	8
In practice or just on paper? Some insights on using alphabetical rule to assign judges to cases	8
Minimum wage non-compliance: the role of co-determination	7
Controlling for fixed effects in studies of income underreporting	6
Assessment of formal proceedings and out-of-court reorganisation: results from a survey among turnaround professionals in Austria	6
The economics of platform liability	6
The impact of law on moral and social norms: evidence from facemask fines in the UK	6
National wealth and private poverty through civil law? a review of the book “The Code of Capital” by Katharina Pistor	6
Forerunners vs. latecomers—institutional competition in the German federalism during the COVID crisis	5
Do target-country legal institutions affect cross-border mergers and acquisitions? A quantitative literature survey	5
The anti-steering provision of Article 5 (4) of the DMA: a law and economics assessment on the business model of gatekeepers and business users	4
You go first!: coordination problems and the burden of proof in inquisitorial prosecution	4
Do child support guidelines result in lower inter-judge disparity? The case of the French advisory child support guidelines	4

Reluctance to report criminal incidents: limited access to justice, social exclusion, and gender	3
Credible plea bargaining with the Jury’s rational conviction decision	3
Dismissal regulation and hiring and dismissal decisions: a decisive factor? the case of the French labor market reforms	3
Time efficiency as a measure of court performance: evidence from the Court of Justice of the European Union	3
Several liability with sequential care: an experiment	3
Abusive contract terms: Is unenforceability a deterrent sanction?	2
Regulatory sandboxes and innovation hubs for FinTech: experiences of the Baltic states	2
Litigation and settlement under loss aversion	2
Law and economics of minority-language policy	2
Efficiency analysis of penitentiary centers in Spain using radial and non-radial DEA and its determinants factors 2015–2020	2
Correction: The link between board characteristics and EU competition law infringements	2
Firms’ legality and efficiency: evidence from public procurement	2
Postbellum electoral politics in California and the genesis of the Chinese exclusion act of 1882	2
A systematic content analysis of innovation in European competition law	2
Contingent fees and endogenous timing in litigation contests	2
Damages for infringements of competition law	2
Market power and journalistic quality	2
Entrepreneurship during a pandemic	2
Plea bargaining and investigation effort: inquisitorial criminal procedure as a three-player game	2
Infringers’ willingness to pay compensation versus fines	2
The regulation of repugnant goods and the limits of the Alchian–Allen effect	2
Before the hammer falls: an empirical analysis of the market reaction to art thefts	2
Disagreeing in private or dissenting in public: an empirical exploration of possible motivations	1
Fake & original: the case of Japanese food in Southeast Asian countries	1
Correction to: Social capital and the problem of opportunistic leadership: the example of Koreans in Japan	1
Market entrance, patents, and preliminary injunctions: a model of pharmaceutical patent litigation	1
Accounting practitioners and small business clients’ tax compliance: evidence from the survey of Serbian accountants	1
Strict liability, scarce generic input and duopoly competition	1
Industrial data sharing and data readiness: a law and economics perspective	1
Motor Vehicle Registration Taxes (MVRT) across EU countries: MNEs’ profitability and the role of market concentration	1
Personality aspects of tax compliance	1
Innovating safely: how public policies can prevent regrettable substitutions	1
Data portability and competition: Can data portability increase both consumer surplus and profits?	1
Intellectual property and fourth industrial revolution technologies: how the patent system is shaping the future in the data-driven economy	1
Priming ideology II: presidential elections increasingly affect U.S. judges	1
Inefficient incentives for energy saving in tenancy law and policy options to remedy the landlord-tenant dilemma	1
The judicial response to rent controls in Europe: Protecting property rights against state’s intervention?	1
Settlements in corporate bribery cases: an illusion of choice?	1
The adverse effect of trial duration on the use of plea bargaining and penal orders in Italy	1
On the sociology of cartels	1
The auditing game: the dark side of the private provision of a public good	1
Do presumptions of negligence incentivize optimal precautions?	1
Premature repayment of fixed interest mortgage loans without compensation, a case of misguided consumer protection in the EU	1
The law and economics of indigenous and ethnic minorities: introduction	1
The link between board characteristics and EU competition law infringements	1
Does rigidity matter? Constitutional entrenchment and growth	1
Cartels, board gender composition and gender quotas	1
Net neutrality and high-speed broadband networks: evidence from OECD countries	1
Money laundering and AML regulatory and judicial system regimes: investigation of FinCEN files	1
Capitation taxes and the regulation of professional services	1

A numerus clausus rationale for the privity of contract: the protective function