OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of the European Economic Association is 4. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Managing Relational Contracts	132
Transfer Payment Systems and Financial Distress: Insights from Health Insurance Premium Subsidies	69
Strategic Fertility, Education Choices, and Conflicts in Deeply Divided Societies	64
Talents and Cultures: Immigrant Inventors and Ethnic Diversity in the Age of Mass Migration	62
Housing Insecurity and Homelessness: Evidence from the United Kingdom	57
Intergovernmental Conflict and Censorship: Evidence from China’s Anti-Corruption Campaign	54
Regulatory Interventions in Consumer Financial Markets: The Case of Credit Cards	50
The Return of Greenspan: Mumbling with Great Incoherence	45
The Impact of NGO-Provided Aid on Government Capacity: Evidence from Uganda	44
Habit Formation and the Misallocation of Labor: Evidence from Forced Migrations	43
Workers’ Bargaining Power and the Phillips Curve: A Micro–Macro Analysis	42
Inattention Matters: An Analysis of Consumers’ Inaction in Choosing a Water Tariff	34
Hard-to-Interpret Signals	33
Using Preference Estimates to Customize Incentives: An Application to Polio Vaccination Drives in Pakistan	33
Global Externalities, Local Policies, and Firm Selection	31
Maternal Mortality and Women’s Political Power	30
Imperfect Competition in Firm-to-Firm Trade	29
Downside and Upside Uncertainty Shocks	26
Preventing Violence in the Most Violent Contexts: Behavioral and Neurophysiological Evidence from El Salvador	26
Dissecting Idiosyncratic Earnings Risk	26
False Narratives and Political Mobilization	24
Das House Kapital: A Long-Run Theory of House Prices and Housing Wealth	24
Limited Nominal Indexation of Optimal Financial Contracts	24
Do Police Maximize Arrests or Minimize Crime? Evidence from Racial Profiling in U.S. Cities	23
The Effect of Asset Encumbrance on Bank Behavior: Evidence from the Introduction of Covered Bonds in Norway	23

Firm Expectations and Economic Activity	23
Information Nudges, Subsidies, and Crowding Out of Attention: Field Evidence from Energy Efficiency Investments	21
Personality Traits and Cognitive Ability in Political Selection	20
Social Conflict and the Evolution of Unequal Conventions	19
Learning About One’s Self	19
Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation	19
Export-Led Decay: The Trade Channel in the Gold Standard Era	18
Welfare Analysis of Regulations on Media Platform Advertising	18
Marshall Lecture 2023: Behavioral Macroeconomics via Sparse Dynamic Programming	18
Mass Migration and Technological Change	18
Productivity and the Welfare of Nations	16
Examining Income Expectations in the College and Early Post-College Periods: New Distributional Tests of Rational Expectations	16
Do Research Joint Ventures Serve a Collusive Function?	16
Regulating Platform Fees	16
Firms’ Inflation Expectations: New Evidence from France	15
Explaining Wage Losses After Job Displacement: Employer Size and Lost Firm Wage Premiums	15
Both Judge and Party? Investigating the Political Unbiasedness of Fact-Checkers	15
The Dynamic Impact of Exporting on Firm R&D Investment	14
Debt Overhang, Rollover Risk, and Corporate Investment: Evidence from the European Crisis	14
Reflecting on the First 20 Years of the Journal of the European Economic Association	14
Coordination and Incumbency Advantage in Multi-Party Systems—Evidence from French Elections	14
Information Technology, Improved Access, and Use of Prescription Drugs	14
Dynamics of Large Multinationals	13
Presidential Address 2022: Economic Development and the Organisation Of Labour: Evidence from the Jobs of the World Project	13
Forward Guidance and Household Expectations	13
Ethnic Conflict and the Informational Dividend of Democracy	13
Values as Luxury Goods and Political Behavior	13
Debt Crises, Fast and Slow	13
Reporting Peers’ Wrongdoing: Evidence on the Effect of Incentives on Morally Controversial Behavior	12
“Marshall Lecture 2020: The Measure of Monopsony”	12
Inattention and the Taxation Bias	12
Erratum: Social Norms and Fertility	11
FBBVA Lecture 2024: The Uncharted Waters of International Trade	11
Monetary Policy and Sovereign Debt Sustainability	11
Chain Restaurant Calorie Posting Laws, Obesity, and Consumer Welfare	11
The Quran and the Sword	10
Time to Grow Up? Adult Children as Determinants of Parental Labor Supply	10
The Hard Problem of Prediction for Conflict Prevention	10
Risky Gravity	10
Safe Spaces for Teenage Girls in a Time of Crisis	10
When in Rome... On Local Norms and Sentencing Decisions	10
Carbon Taxation and Greenflation: Evidence from Europe and Canada	10
Experimental Evidence from a Conditional Cash Transfer Program: Schooling, Learning, Fertility, and Labor Market Outcomes after 10 Years	10
The Gender Gap in Earnings Losses After Job Displacement	10
Cohabitation vs. Marriage: Mating Strategies by Education in The USA	9
Application Barriers and the Socioeconomic Gap in Child Care Enrollment	9
Forced Migration and Local Public Policies: Evidence from Post-War West Germany	9
Early Stimulation and Nutrition: The Impacts of a Scalable Intervention	9
Reconciling Relational Contracting and Hold-up: A Model of Repeated Negotiations	9
Social Interactions and Legislative Activity	9

Life Out of the Shadows: the Impacts of Regularization Programs on the Lives of Forced Migrants	9
Bubbles and Stagnation	9
Engineering Growth	9
Bureaucrats and Policies in Equilibrium Administrations	8
Can Good Products Drive Out Bad? A Randomized Intervention in the Antimalarial Medicine Market in Uganda	8
Stereotypes and Belief Updating	8
Regulating Platform Fees under Price Parity	8
Contracting for Coordination	8
Improving Parenting Practices for Early Child Development: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda	8
Traumatic Experiences Adversely Affect Life Cycle Labor Market Outcomes of the Next Generation—Evidence from Wwii Nazi Raids	8
Higher Education and Mortality: Legacies of an Authoritarian College Contraction	8
The Human Cost of Collusion: Health Effects of a Mexican Insulin Cartel	8
Priors Rule: When Do Malfeasance Revelations Help Or Hurt Incumbent Parties?	8
Social Benefits and Private Costs of Driving Restriction Policies: The Impact of Madrid Central on Congestion, Pollution, and Consumer Spending	7
Gross Capital Flows by Banks, Corporates, and Sovereigns	7
Collective Information Acquisition	7
Formation of College Plans: Expected Returns, Preferences, and Adjustment Process	7
The Effect of Pension Subsidies on the Retirement Timing of Older Women	7
Global Profit Shifting of Multinational Companies: Evidence from Country-by-Country Reporting Micro Data	7
The Political Economy Consequences of China’s Export Slowdown	7
Make Hay While the Sun Shines: an Empirical Study of Maximum Price, Regret, and Trading Decisions	7
Law Enforcement and Bargaining over Illicit Drug Prices: Structural Evidence from a Gang’s Ledger	7
The Life-Cycle Effects of Pension Reforms: A Structural Approach	6
Absenteeism, Productivity, and Relational Contracts Inside the Firm	6
Monetary Policy in a World of Cryptocurrencies	6
Price Setting and Price Stickiness: A Behavioral Foundation of Inaction Bands	6
American Indian Casinos and Native American Self-Identification	6
Can Simple Psychological Interventions Increase Preventive Health Investment?	6
Bank Capital Regulation in a Zero Interest Environment	6
How Allowing a Little Bit of Dissent Helps Control Social Media: Impact of Market Structure on Censorship Compliance	6
Correction To: Structural Reforms and Elections: Evidence from a World-Wide New Dataset	6
European Firm Concentration and Aggregate Productivity	6
Targeting Credit through Community Members	6
Social Capital, Government Expenditures, and Growth	6
Structural Reforms and Elections: Evidence from a World-Wide New Dataset	6
FBBVA Lecture 2023. The Importance of Modeling Income Taxes over Time: U.S. Reforms and Outcomes	6
Unintended Consequences of the Global Derivatives Market Reform	6
The Supply of Skill and Endogenous Technical Change: Evidence from a College Expansion Reform	6
Testing Models of Strategic Uncertainty: Equilibrium Selection in Repeated Games	5
Liquidity and Discipline. Bank due Diligence Over the Business Cycle	5
Women’s Fertility and Labor Market Responses to a Health Innovation	5
Experimental Evidence on the Acceptance of Males Falling Behind	5
Consumer Credit with Over-Optimistic Borrowers	5
Structural Change within the Services Sector and the Future of Cost Disease	5
Discretion and Favoritism in Public Procurement	5
Inattentive Inference	5
Optimal Time-Consistent Government Debt Maturity, Fiscal Policy, and Default	5
The Effect of Social Media on Elections: Evidence from The United States	5
Motherhood and the Gender Productivity Gap	4
Judge Bias in Labor Courts and Firm Performance	4
Smart Cap	4
The Making of Social Democracy: the Economic and Electoral Consequences of Norway’s 1936 Folk School Reform	4
The One-Child Policy and Household Saving	4
What’s Wrong with Annuity Markets?	4
The Private and External Costs of Germany’s Nuclear Phase-Out	4
How To Discipline Financial Markets: Reputation Is Not Enough	4
Marshall Lecture 2022: The Economics of Women’s Rights	4
The Side Effects of Safe Asset Creation	4