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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Divergence before the division: the colonial origins of separate development paths in Korea	26
The limits of generality for constitutional design	23
Measuring open access orders	18
Repugnance, externalities and subjectivism: a comment on Krawiec	16
JOI volume 18 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	12
A further reply to Jean-Philippe Robé on the firm	12
Pre-colonial centralization and tax compliance norms in contemporary Uganda	11
Comparing Ostrom's design principles to Habraken's open-building framework: disentangling a polycentric built environment	11
The economic institutions of artificial intelligence	10
Ideas, institutions, and incompleteness	10
Why is there property? A response to Professor Wilson	10
Problematizing state capacity: the Rwandan case	9
Property rights aren't primary; ideas are	9
JOI volume 17 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	9
On mechanisms of meritocratic recruitment: competence and impartiality	9
Towards polycentric federalism: assessing federal institutional design in multiethnic African states	9
Exchanges with and without the sword: slavery, politics-as-exchange and freedom in James M. Buchanan's institutional economics	8
Introduction to the symposium on institutional analysis, market processes, and interdisciplinary social science	7
Formal and informal institutions: some problems of meaning, impact, and interaction	7
Analyzing institutional changes in community-based management: a case study of a participatory guarantee system for organic labeling in Brazil	7
Yoram Barzel: commemorating the life of an institutional economist	7
The economics of cognitive institutions: mapping debates, looking ahead	7
Do human capital and institutional quality contribute to Brazil's long term real convergence/divergence process? A Markov regime-switching autoregressive approach	7
Formal and informal institutions: understanding the shadow economy in transition countries	7
JOI volume 18 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	6

Constraints on the executive and tax revenues in the long run	6
Choice of slavery institutions in Ancient Greece: Athenian chattels and Spartan helots	6
The paradox of effective altruism	6
JOI volume 17 issue 6 Cover and Back matter	6
Firms versus corporations: a rebuttal of Simon Deakin, David Gindis, and Geoffrey M. Hodgson	6
Career lessons from economists’ life stories: Brian J. Loasby as an Exemplar	5
JOI volume 18 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	5
On the adapting function of social institutions	5
Deals that start when you sign them	5
Determinants of social norms I – the role of geography	5
Fractionalization, polarization and banking stability in Africa	5
Atmosphere, private ordering, and industrial pluralism: Williamson's evolving science of organization	5
Introduction to the special issue on institutions and culture in economic contexts	5
Elinor Ostrom on choice, collective action and rationality: a Senian analysis	5
Understanding Masahiko Aoki’s comparative institutional analysis	5
Heterogeneous effects of economic freedom on human capital in developing countries	4
No taxation without state-assigned property rights: formalization of individual property rights on land and taxation in sub-Saharan Africa	4
The dynamic efficiency of gifting	4
Towards a realistic view of consumer behaviour	4
Institutions, ideas and economic change: some reflections on Geoffrey Hodgson's ‘Culture and Institutions’	4
Institutions and industry-level employment creation: an empirical analysis of the US metro-level data	4
The institutional environment and gig platform transaction cost solutions	4
Rule of law as a determinant of the export performance of Italian provinces	4
Economic freedom improves income mobility: evidence from Canadian provinces, 1982–2018	4
Editorial report 2022	3
Managing repugnance: how core-stigma shapes firm behavior	3
JOI volume 18 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	3
‘It was organized from the bottom’: the response from community-based institutions during the 2014 Ebola epidemic	3
Institutional resilience: how the formal legal system sustains informal cooperation	3
Governing entrepreneurial opportunities: a discriminating alignment approach	3
Corruption and informal practices in the Middle East and North Africa: a pooled cross-sectional analysis	3
Measuring economic freedom during the Covid-19 pandemic	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
To what extent do institutional arrangements shape the excludability of resource systems? Lessons from French farms	3
Shocking resilience? Effects of extreme events on constitutional compliance	3
Individual trust and quality of regional government	3
Late colonial antecedents of modern democracy	3
A needs theory of governance: taking transaction cost theory back to humanistic economics and self-actualisation	2
List of Referees	2
Specific investments, cognitive resources, and specialized nature of research production in academic institutions: why shared governance matters for performance	2
Russia as a great power: from 1815 to the present day Part II	2
The Ostroms on self-governance: the importance of cybernetics	2
Disruptive innovation in the economic organization of China and the West	2
Ownership or possession? On Bart Wilson's concept of ownership	2
JOI volume 18 issue 6 Cover and Back matter	2
The political economy of foreign fighter death in the Russo-Ukrainian War: the role of institutions, politics, and international trade	2
The role of reputational incentives in an international currency union: Greek monetary institutions in the classical and Hellenistic periods	2
Hayek's extended mind: on the (im)possibility of Austrian behavioural economics	2

Frontier academic research in OECD countries: the role of institutional factors	2
Mapping inflation to economic freedom in the post-COVID era	2
The complementarity between automation and flexible labour contracts: firm-level evidence from Italy	2
JOI volume 18 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
List of Referees	2
Jaurès’s The New Army (1911): the organisation of democratic institutions as war prevention	2
Community policing on American Indian reservations: a preliminary investigation	2
Constitutional catallaxy and indigenous rights: the Australian case	2
Resolving Douglass C. North's ‘puzzle’ concerning China's household responsibility system	1
Introduction to the symposium on ‘crisis and persistence: dynamics of institutional changes at the interface between formal and informal institutions’	1
JOI volume 18 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
Corporate hierarchies and workplace voice	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
JOI volume 18 issue 6 Cover and Front matter	1
Conceptualising knowledge governance: knowledge regimes and institutions	1
Markets, repugnance, and externalities	1
Geographical indications as global knowledge commons: Ostrom's law on common intellectual property and collective action	1
Repugnance and institutions: an introductory essay	1
Inclusive national innovation systems: rethinking institutions in the light of inclusion imperatives	1
JOI volume 18 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	1
JOI volume 17 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	1
Where lies the bundle of sticks? A comment on Bart Wilson's ‘The Primacy of Property’	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
Coproduction and the crafting of cognitive institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
The old boy network: are the professional networks of female executives less effective than men's for advancing their careers?	1
Debt restrictions and municipal indebtedness in American cities: evidence from the Roaring Twenties	1
Institutions and tax capacity in sub-Saharan Africa	1
Learning like a state organizational learning and state capacity in ancient Greece	1
Diversified firms: existence and behaviors	1
Ancestral institutions and the salience of African ethnicity: Theory and Evidence	1
Worker takeovers: a comparative analysis of employee buyouts, other worker-managed firms, and conventional firms in Uruguay	1
The authors of economics journals revisited: evidence from a large-scale replication of Hodgson and Rothman (1999)	1
The Black Mouth Society and governance on the Great Plains	1
Conceptualizing the fiscal state: implications for sub-Saharan Africa	1
Repugnant innovation	1
Property rights rule: comments on Bart Wilson's ‘The primacy of property; Or, the subordination of property rights’	1
Russia as a great power: from 1815 to the present day Part 1	1
‘A public economy approach to education: school choice and co-production’ revisited	1
Containment or bad detection? Poor state capacity implications on reported Covid-19 cases	1