Journal of Institutional Economics

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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Career lessons from economists’ life stories: Brian J. Loasby as an Exemplar22
Inclusive national innovation systems: rethinking institutions in the light of inclusion imperatives18
Adaptation, adjudication, and private ordering: Contractual Relations through the Williamson Lens16
The nature of the decentralised autonomous organisation16
On the adapting function of social institutions14
Introduction to the symposium on ‘crisis and persistence: dynamics of institutional changes at the interface between formal and informal institutions’14
Ownership or possession? On Bart Wilson's concept of ownership13
JOI volume 18 issue 1 Cover and Front matter11
JOI volume 18 issue 1 Cover and Back matter11
Mapping inflation to economic freedom in the post-COVID era9
Repugnance and institutions: an introductory essay9
Disruptive innovation in the economic organization of China and the West9
Ancestral institutions and the salience of African ethnicity: Theory and Evidence9
The limits of generality for constitutional design8
Resolving Douglass C. North's ‘puzzle’ concerning China's household responsibility system8
Constitutional catallaxy and indigenous rights: the Australian case8
Repugnance, externalities and subjectivism: a comment on Krawiec8
The German historical school on monetary calculation and the feasibility of socialism8
Theory in closer contact with industrial life: American institutional economists on competition theory and policy7
Diversified firms: existence and behaviors7
Atmosphere, private ordering, and industrial pluralism: Williamson's evolving science of organization7
Worker takeovers: a comparative analysis of employee buyouts, other worker-managed firms, and conventional firms in Uruguay6
Divergence before the division: the colonial origins of separate development paths in Korea – ADDENDUM6
Integrating variable risk preferences, trust, and transaction cost economics – 25 years on: reflections in memory of Oliver Williamson6
Regional financial disparity in India: can it be measured?6
Measuring open access orders6
The political economy of foreign fighter death in the Russo-Ukrainian War: the role of institutions, politics, and international trade6
Culture and institutions: a review of Joel Mokyr'sA Culture of Growth5
Determinants of social norms I – the role of geography5
Uncertainty and the social organization of economic activity5
A needs theory of governance: taking transaction cost theory back to humanistic economics and self-actualisation5
Fiscal capacity in non-democratic states: the origins and expansion of the income tax5
Divergence before the division: the colonial origins of separate development paths in Korea5
JOI volume 17 issue 3 Cover and Back matter5
Global economic freedom during the second year of the pandemic5
Introduction to the special issue on institutions and culture in economic contexts5
JOI volume 17 issue 6 Cover and Front matter4
JOI volume 18 issue 2 Cover and Front matter4
JOI volume 18 issue 6 Cover and Back matter4
No taxation without state-assigned property rights: formalization of individual property rights on land and taxation in sub-Saharan Africa4
JOI volume 18 issue 6 Cover and Front matter4
JOI volume 18 issue 3 Cover and Back matter4
Russia as a great power: from 1815 to the present day Part 14
Individualism, universalism and climate change4
Remittance dependence, support for taxation and quality of public services in Africa4
Fractionalization, polarization and banking stability in Africa4
JOI volume 18 issue 4 Cover and Front matter4
Debt restrictions and municipal indebtedness in American cities: evidence from the Roaring Twenties4
List of Referees4
Two sides of the coin: exploring the duality of corruption in Latin America4
Integrating the exploration-exploitation dilemma and bad institutions to the Austrian theory of destructive entrepreneurship: a new perspective3
Elinor Ostrom on choice, collective action and rationality: a Senian analysis3
Institutions, ideas and economic change: some reflections on Geoffrey Hodgson's ‘Culture and Institutions’3
Pre-colonial centralization and tax compliance norms in contemporary Uganda3
Watch out for words: the wording of constitutions and constitutional compliance3
De jureproperty rights and state capacity: evidence from land specification in the Boer Republics3
Shock me like a Hurricane: how Hurricane Katrina changed Louisiana's formal and informal institutions3
Blockchain networks as constitutional and competitive polycentric orders3
Oliver Williamson and the strategic theory of the firm3
The political economy of China's Belt and Road Initiative3
Understanding the roles of meso-institutions: a comparative approach to urban water provision in seven Asian cities3
On legal bubbles: some thoughts on legal shockwaves at the core of the digital economy3
The legacy of Frank H. Knight for the politics of financial governance3
From hierarchies to markets and partially back again in electricity: responding to decarbonization and security of supply goals3
The institutional environment and gig platform transaction cost solutions3
A further reply to Jean-Philippe Robé on the firm2
Knight, financial institutions, and entrepreneurship in developing economies2
JOI volume 18 issue 2 Cover and Back matter2
Property rights rule: comments on Bart Wilson's ‘The primacy of property; Or, the subordination of property rights’2
The Black Mouth Society and governance on the Great Plains2
Sorting out the aid–corruption nexus2
Coproduction and the crafting of cognitive institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Repugnant innovation2
Role of social aversion in the motivations for tax law compliance2
Economic freedom improves income mobility: evidence from Canadian provinces, 1982–20182
Donald T. Campbell on the institutions of scientific knowledge and the limits to interdisciplinarity2
Determinants of social norms II – religion and family as mediators2
The dynamic efficiency of gifting2
The effect of corruption control on efficiency spillovers2
What is a firm? A reply to Jean-Philippe Robé2
Making reform and stability compatible with each other: elite redeployment in Meiji Japan2
Response to governmental COVID-19 restrictions: the role of informal institutions2
Do partisan politics influence domestic credit?2
Rule of law as a determinant of the export performance of Italian provinces2
Institutions and industry-level employment creation: an empirical analysis of the US metro-level data2
Markets and communities: the social cost of the meritocracy2
The old boy network: are the professional networks of female executives less effective than men's for advancing their careers?2
JOI volume 17 issue 5 Cover and Back matter1
Environmental economics in Classical Athens1
The relationship between institutional quality, trust and private savings1
The economics of cognitive institutions: mapping debates, looking ahead1
The evolution of economies, technologies, and other institutions: exploring W. Brian Arthur's insights1
JOI volume 18 issue 3 Cover and Front matter1
Towards a realistic view of consumer behaviour1
Comparing Ostrom's design principles to Habraken's open-building framework: disentangling a polycentric built environment1
Garnering sympathy: moral appeals and land bargaining under autocracy1
Community and informal institutions in reforms under crises: the odyssey of a 350-year-old functionally credible water commons1
Environmental enforcement, property rights, and violence: evidence from the Brazilian Amazon1
Commemorating Oliver Williamson, a founding father of transaction cost economics1
Liability for robots II: an economic analysis1
To what extent do institutional arrangements shape the excludability of resource systems? Lessons from French farms1
Toward an economic theory of customary measurement1
Editorial report 20221
The economic institutions of artificial intelligence1
Problematizing state capacity: the Rwandan case1
Ideas, institutions, and incompleteness1
Currency regimes and external competitiveness: the role of institutions, trade agreements and monetary frameworks1
Institutions and tax capacity in sub-Saharan Africa1
Political regimes and firms' decisions to pay bribes: theory and evidence from firm-level surveys1
The evolution of the football jersey – an institutional perspective1
Why mission-directed governance risks authoritarianism: lessons from East Asia1
The impact of economic institutions on government policy: does contract-intensive economy promote impartial governance?1
JOI volume 18 issue 4 Cover and Back matter1
Towards polycentric federalism: assessing federal institutional design in multiethnic African states1
Knightian uncertainty in non-market institutional settings: the case of democracy and nonprofit civil society1
Why is there property? A response to Professor Wilson1
The value of political connections: evidence from China's anti-corruption campaign1
The role of culture as an informal institution in cross-border venture capital investments1
Innovation, on-the-job learning, and labor contracts: an organizational equilibria approach1
Geographical indications as global knowledge commons: Ostrom's law on common intellectual property and collective action1
Crafting of cognitive institutions for overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic1
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