OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Institutional 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Divergence before the division: the colonial origins of separate development paths in Korea	27
Measuring open access orders	26
Repugnance, externalities and subjectivism: a comment on Krawiec	23
The limits of generality for constitutional design	15
A further reply to Jean-Philippe Robé on the firm	13
JOI volume 18 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	13
Pre-colonial centralization and tax compliance norms in contemporary Uganda	12
Ideas, institutions, and incompleteness	12
Comparing Ostrom's design principles to Habraken's open-building framework: disentangling a polycentric built environment	12
Towards polycentric federalism: assessing federal institutional design in multiethnic African states	11
Property rights aren't primary; ideas are	11
The economic institutions of artificial intelligence	11
Problematizing state capacity: the Rwandan case	11
Why is there property? A response to Professor Wilson	11
On mechanisms of meritocratic recruitment: competence and impartiality	11
Formal and informal institutions: some problems of meaning, impact, and interaction	10
Exchanges with and without the sword: slavery, politics-as-exchange and freedom in James M. Buchanan's institutional economics	10
The economics of cognitive institutions: mapping debates, looking ahead	9
Formal and informal institutions: understanding the shadow economy in transition countries	9
Yoram Barzel: commemorating the life of an institutional economist	8
Choice of slavery institutions in Ancient Greece: Athenian chattels and Spartan helots	7
Introduction to the symposium on institutional analysis, market processes, and interdisciplinary social science	7
Analyzing institutional changes in community-based management: a case study of a participatory guarantee system for organic labeling in Brazil	7
Do human capital and institutional quality contribute to Brazil's long term real convergence/divergence process? A Markov regime-switching autoregressive approach	7
JOI volume 17 issue 6 Cover and Back matter	6

Understanding Masahiko Aoki’s comparative institutional analysis	6
Recurrent exchange rate shocks and Anfal in Iran	6
Career lessons from economists’ life stories: Brian J. Loasby as an Exemplar	6
JOI volume 18 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	6
The paradox of effective altruism	6
Constraints on the executive and tax revenues in the long run	6
Heterogeneous effects of economic freedom on human capital in developing countries	5
Determinants of social norms I – the role of geography	5
The institutional environment and gig platform transaction cost solutions	5
Elinor Ostrom on choice, collective action and rationality: a Senian analysis	5
On the adapting function of social institutions	5
No taxation without state-assigned property rights: formalization of individual property rights on land and taxation in sub-Saharan Africa	5
JOI volume 18 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	5
Institutions and industry-level employment creation: an empirical analysis of the US metro-level data	4
JOI volume 18 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
Rule of law as a determinant of the export performance of Italian provinces	4
The dynamic efficiency of gifting	4
Norms are relational: cognitive institutions, practices, and the ‘where’ question	4
To what extent do institutional arrangements shape the excludability of resource systems? Lessons from French farms	4
The words that keep people apart: official language and accountability	4
Economic freedom improves income mobility: evidence from Canadian provinces, 1982–2018	4
Editorial report 2022	4
Governing entrepreneurial opportunities: a discriminating alignment approach	4
Towards a realistic view of consumer behaviour	4
‘It was organized from the bottom’: the response from community-based institutions during the 2014 Ebola epidemic	3
Individual trust and quality of regional government	3
The Ostroms on self-governance: the importance of cybernetics	3
Institutional resilience: how the formal legal system sustains informal cooperation	3
Corruption and informal practices in the Middle East and North Africa: a pooled cross-sectional analysis	3
A polycentric approach for pandemic governance: nested externalities and co-production challenges	3
Liberal egalitarian justice in the distribution of a common output. Experimental evidence and implications for effective institution design – ERRATUM	3
Liability for robots II: an economic analysis	3
Managing repugnance: how core-stigma shapes firm behavior	3
Measuring economic freedom during the Covid-19 pandemic	3
Russia as a great power: from 1815 to the present day Part II	2
Community policing on American Indian reservations: a preliminary investigation	2
Ownership or possession? On Bart Wilson's concept of ownership	2
Constitutional catallaxy and indigenous rights: the Australian case	2
JOI volume 18 issue 6 Cover and Back matter	2
Russia as a great power: from 1815 to the present day Part 1	2
The political economy of foreign fighter death in the Russo-Ukrainian War: the role of institutions, politics, and international trade	2
Frontier academic research in OECD countries: the role of institutional factors	2
Jaurès’s The New Army (1911): the organisation of democratic institutions as war prevention	2
A needs theory of governance: taking transaction cost theory back to humanistic economics and self-actualisation	2
List of Referees	2
Disruptive innovation in the economic organization of China and the West	2
JOI volume 18 issue 6 Cover and Front matter	2
Debt restrictions and municipal indebtedness in American cities: evidence from the Roaring Twenties	2
The role of reputational incentives in an international currency union: Greek monetary institutions in the classical and Hellenistic periods	2
List of Referees	2

Hayek's extended mind: on the (im)possibility of Austrian behavioural economics	2
Shocking resilience? Effects of extreme events on constitutional compliance	2
Mapping inflation to economic freedom in the post-COVID era	2
JOI volume 18 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
‘A public economy approach to education: school choice and co-production’ revisited	2
The complementarity between automation and flexible labour contracts: firm-level evidence from Italy	2
Enacting the future: institutions, temporal affordances, and the formation of expectations	2
Why mission-directed governance risks authoritarianism: lessons from East Asia	1
Shock me like a Hurricane: how Hurricane Katrina changed Louisiana's formal and informal institutions	1
The political economy of China's Belt and Road Initiative	1
JOI volume 17 issue 6 Cover and Front matter	1
Where lies the bundle of sticks? A comment on Bart Wilson's ‘The Primacy of Property’	1
Markets, repugnance, and externalities	1
Learning like a state organizational learning and state capacity in ancient Greece	1
Geographical indications as global knowledge commons: Ostrom's law on common intellectual property and collective action	1
Introduction to the symposium on ‘crisis and persistence: dynamics of institutional changes at the interface between formal and informal institutions’	1
Coproduction and the crafting of cognitive institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
JOI volume 18 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	1
Institutions and tax capacity in sub-Saharan Africa	1
The old boy network: are the professional networks of female executives less effective than men's for advancing their careers?	1
Worker takeovers: a comparative analysis of employee buyouts, other worker-managed firms, and conventional firms in Uruguay	1
The evolution of economies, technologies, and other institutions: exploring W. Brian Arthur's insights	1
Community and informal institutions in reforms under crises: the odyssey of a 350-year-old functionally credible water commons	1
Corporate hierarchies and workplace voice	1
Inclusive national innovation systems: rethinking institutions in the light of inclusion imperatives	1
Bringing emotions into post-Northian institutional economics: a reading inspired by John Dewey	1
Economic analyses of repugnant market transactions: a modest typology	1
Toward an economic theory of customary measurement	1
Individualism, institutions, and patriarchal attitudes	1
JOI volume 18 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
Property rights rule: comments on Bart Wilson's ‘The primacy of property; Or, the subordination of property rights’	1
Repugnance and institutions: an introductory essay	1
Conceptualising knowledge governance: knowledge regimes and institutions	1
Conceptualizing the fiscal state: implications for sub-Saharan Africa	1
Institutions and development in a fragile limited access order of late-medieval Lithuania	1
Making reform and stability compatible with each other: elite redeployment in Meiji Japan	1
Role of social aversion in the motivations for tax law compliance	1
Environmental economics in Classical Athens	1
The authors of economics journals revisited: evidence from a large-scale replication of Hodgson and Rothman (1999)	1
Do religious beliefs matter for economic values?	1
Making ideas actionable in institutionalism: the case of trade liberalization in Kennedy's foreign economic policy	1
Implementation of the Brazilian Forest Code: a meso-institutional approach	1
Ancestral institutions and the salience of African ethnicity: Theory and Evidence	1
Repugnant innovation	1
Individualism, universalism and climate change	1
Containment or bad detection? Poor state capacity implications on reported Covid-19 cases	1
The Black Mouth Society and governance on the Great Plains	1