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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Divergence before the division: the colonial origins of separate development paths in Korea	25
Measuring open access orders	23
Repugnance, externalities and subjectivism: a comment on Krawiec	18
The limits of generality for constitutional design	18
JOI volume 18 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	16
From hierarchies to markets and partially back again in electricity: responding to decarbonization and security of supply goals	15
A further reply to Jean-Philippe Robé on the firm	14
Innovation, on-the-job learning, and labor contracts: an organizational equilibria approach	12
Pre-colonial centralization and tax compliance norms in contemporary Uganda	11
Ideas, institutions, and incompleteness	11
Comparing Ostrom's design principles to Habraken's open-building framework: disentangling a polycentric built environment	11
Why is there property? A response to Professor Wilson	10
The economic institutions of artificial intelligence	10
Problematizing state capacity: the Rwandan case	9
JOI volume 17 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	9
The economics of cognitive institutions: mapping debates, looking ahead	8
Formal and informal institutions: understanding the shadow economy in transition countries	8
Exchanges with and without the sword: slavery, politics-as-exchange and freedom in James M. Buchanan's institutional economics	8
On mechanisms of meritocratic recruitment: competence and impartiality	8
Property rights aren't primary; ideas are	8
Towards polycentric federalism: assessing federal institutional design in multiethnic African states	8
Yoram Barzel: commemorating the life of an institutional economist	7
Choice of slavery institutions in Ancient Greece: Athenian chattels and Spartan helots	7
Formal and informal institutions: some problems of meaning, impact, and interaction	7
Do human capital and institutional quality contribute to Brazil's long term real convergence/divergence process? A Markov regime-switching autoregressive approach	7

Introduction to the symposium on institutional analysis, market processes, and interdisciplinary social science	7
JOI volume 18 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	6
Constraints on the executive and tax revenues in the long run	6
Career lessons from economists’ life stories: Brian J. Loasby as an Exemplar	6
Analyzing institutional changes in community-based management: a case study of a participatory guarantee system for organic labeling in Brazil	6
Firms versus corporations: a rebuttal of Simon Deakin, David Gindis, and Geoffrey M. Hodgson	6
The paradox of effective altruism	6
Introduction to the special issue on institutions and culture in economic contexts	6
JOI volume 17 issue 6 Cover and Back matter	6
Deals that start when you sign them	6
Atmosphere, private ordering, and industrial pluralism: Williamson's evolving science of organization	6
Understanding Masahiko Aoki’s comparative institutional analysis	6
JOI volume 18 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	5
The institutional environment and gig platform transaction cost solutions	5
Towards a realistic view of consumer behaviour	5
No taxation without state-assigned property rights: formalization of individual property rights on land and taxation in sub-Saharan Africa	5
Fractionalization, polarization and banking stability in Africa	5
Determinants of social norms I – the role of geography	5
Rule of law as a determinant of the export performance of Italian provinces	5
On the adapting function of social institutions	5
Elinor Ostrom on choice, collective action and rationality: a Senian analysis	5
Heterogeneous effects of economic freedom on human capital in developing countries	5
The dynamic efficiency of gifting	5
Editorial report 2022	4
Liability for robots II: an economic analysis	4
Economic freedom improves income mobility: evidence from Canadian provinces, 1982–2018	4
Managing repugnance: how core-stigma shapes firm behavior	4
JOI volume 18 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
Institutions and industry-level employment creation: an empirical analysis of the US metro-level data	4
Governing entrepreneurial opportunities: a discriminating alignment approach	4
Institutions, ideas and economic change: some reflections on Geoffrey Hodgson's ‘Culture and Institutions’	4
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
Community policing on American Indian reservations: a preliminary investigation	3
The labor-managed firm, Oliver Williamson, and me	3
Frontier academic research in OECD countries: the role of institutional factors	3
To what extent do institutional arrangements shape the excludability of resource systems? Lessons from French farms	3
Liberal egalitarian justice in the distribution of a common output. Experimental evidence and implications for effective institution design – ERRATUM	3
‘It was organized from the bottom’: the response from community-based institutions during the 2014 Ebola epidemic	3
Russia as a great power: from 1815 to the present day Part II	3
Measuring economic freedom during the Covid-19 pandemic	3
The role of reputational incentives in an international currency union: Greek monetary institutions in the classical and Hellenistic periods	3
Hayek's extended mind: on the (im)possibility of Austrian behavioural economics	3
Institutional resilience: how the formal legal system sustains informal cooperation	3
The Ostroms on self-governance: the importance of cybernetics	3
A polycentric approach for pandemic governance: nested externalities and co-production challenges	3
Jaurès’s The New Army (1911): the organisation of democratic institutions as war prevention	3
List of Referees	3
Specific investments, cognitive resources, and specialized nature of research production in academic institutions: why shared governance matters for performance	3

The old boy network: are the professional networks of female executives less effective than men's for advancing their careers?	2
Repugnant innovation	2
Toward an economic theory of customary measurement	2
The Black Mouth Society and governance on the Great Plains	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
List of Referees	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
Geographical indications as global knowledge commons: Ostrom's law on common intellectual property and collective action	2
Property rights rule: comments on Bart Wilson's ‘The primacy of property; Or, the subordination of property rights’	2
Russia as a great power: from 1815 to the present day Part 1	2
The complementarity between automation and flexible labour contracts: firm-level evidence from Italy	2
A needs theory of governance: taking transaction cost theory back to humanistic economics and self-actualisation	2
Mapping inflation to economic freedom in the post-COVID era	2
Institutions and tax capacity in sub-Saharan Africa	2
Coproduction and the crafting of cognitive institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Currency regimes and external competitiveness: the role of institutions, trade agreements and monetary frameworks	2
JOI volume 18 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
Ownership or possession? On Bart Wilson's concept of ownership	2
Disruptive innovation in the economic organization of China and the West	2
Constitutional catallaxy and indigenous rights: the Australian case	2
JOI volume 18 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	1
The political economy of China's Belt and Road Initiative	1
Resolving Douglass C. North's ‘puzzle’ concerning China's household responsibility system	1
Worker takeovers: a comparative analysis of employee buyouts, other worker-managed firms, and conventional firms in Uruguay	1
JOI volume 17 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	1
Economic analyses of repugnant market transactions: a modest typology	1
JOI volume 17 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
Conceptualizing the fiscal state: implications for sub-Saharan Africa	1
Containment or bad detection? Poor state capacity implications on reported Covid-19 cases	1
Individualism, universalism and climate change	1
Repugnance and institutions: an introductory essay	1
Integrating variable risk preferences, trust, and transaction cost economics – 25 years on: reflections in memory of Oliver Williamson	1
Inclusive national innovation systems: rethinking institutions in the light of inclusion imperatives	1
Religion without doctrine or clergy: the case of Ancient Greece	1
Do religious beliefs matter for economic values?	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
Learning like a state organizational learning and state capacity in ancient Greece	1
JOI volume 18 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
JOI volume 17 issue 6 Cover and Front matter	1
Diversified firms: existence and behaviors	1
Introduction to the symposium on ‘crisis and persistence: dynamics of institutional changes at the interface between formal and informal institutions’	1
Ancestral institutions and the salience of African ethnicity: Theory and Evidence	1
Corporate hierarchies and workplace voice	1
Markets, repugnance, and externalities	1
The authors of economics journals revisited: evidence from a large-scale replication of Hodgson and Rothman (1999)	1
Making ideas actionable in institutionalism: the case of trade liberalization in Kennedy's foreign economic policy	1
Introduction to the special issue on the Centenary of Frank H. Knight's Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit	1
Oliver Williamson and the strategic theory of the firm	1