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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Divergence before the division: the colonial origins of separate development paths in Korea	29
Measuring open access orders	27
A further reply to Jean-Philippe Robé on the firm	14
Repugnance, externalities and subjectivism: a comment on Krawiec	14
JOI volume 18 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	14
The limits of generality for constitutional design	14
Pre-colonial centralization and tax compliance norms in contemporary Uganda	13
Ideas, institutions, and incompleteness	12
Comparing Ostrom's design principles to Habraken's open-building framework: disentangling a polycentric built environment	12
The economic institutions of artificial intelligence	12
Towards polycentric federalism: assessing federal institutional design in multiethnic African states	11
Why is there property? A response to Professor Wilson	11
Property rights aren't primary; ideas are	11
Exchanges with and without the sword: slavery, politics-as-exchange and freedom in James M. Buchanan's institutional economics	10
On mechanisms of meritocratic recruitment: competence and impartiality	10
Problematizing state capacity: the Rwandan case	10
Formal and informal institutions: some problems of meaning, impact, and interaction	9
The economics of cognitive institutions: mapping debates, looking ahead	9
Formal and informal institutions: understanding the shadow economy in transition countries	9
Introduction to the symposium on institutional analysis, market processes, and interdisciplinary social science	8
Yoram Barzel: commemorating the life of an institutional economist	8
Choice of slavery institutions in Ancient Greece: Athenian chattels and Spartan helots	7
The paradox of effective altruism	7
Analyzing institutional changes in community-based management: a case study of a participatory guarantee system for organic labeling in Brazil	7
JOI volume 18 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	7

Do human capital and institutional quality contribute to Brazil's long term real convergence/divergence process? A Markov regime-switching autoregressive approach	7
Understanding Masahiko Aoki’s comparative institutional analysis	6
Recurrent exchange rate shocks and Anfal in Iran	6
Constraints on the executive and tax revenues in the long run	6
JOI volume 18 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	5
Norms are relational: cognitive institutions, practices, and the ‘where’ question	5
The words that keep people apart: official language and accountability	5
No taxation without state-assigned property rights: formalization of individual property rights on land and taxation in sub-Saharan Africa	5
On the adapting function of social institutions	5
Career lessons from economists’ life stories: Brian J. Loasby as an Exemplar	5
Elinor Ostrom on choice, collective action and rationality: a Senian analysis	5
The institutional environment and gig platform transaction cost solutions	5
Determinants of social norms I – the role of geography	5
Towards a realistic view of consumer behaviour	5
Heterogeneous effects of economic freedom on human capital in developing countries	5
The dynamic efficiency of gifting	4
Banking on research: Who leads? Who follows? Who cares?	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
To what extent do institutional arrangements shape the excludability of resource systems? Lessons from French farms	4
Institutions and industry-level employment creation: an empirical analysis of the US metro-level data	4
Editorial report 2022	4
Governing entrepreneurial opportunities: a discriminating alignment approach	4
Russia as a great power: from 1815 to the present day Part II	3
Managing repugnance: how core-stigma shapes firm behavior	3
Jaurès’s The New Army (1911): the organisation of democratic institutions as war prevention	3
Enacting the future: institutions, temporal affordances, and the formation of expectations	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
Measuring economic freedom during the Covid-19 pandemic	3
Liberal egalitarian justice in the distribution of a common output. Experimental evidence and implications for effective institution design – ERRATUM	3
List of Referees	3
The Ostroms on self-governance: the importance of cybernetics	3
‘It was organized from the bottom’: the response from community-based institutions during the 2014 Ebola epidemic	3
Community policing on American Indian reservations: a preliminary investigation	3
Hayek's extended mind: on the (im)possibility of Austrian behavioural economics	3
Shocking resilience? Effects of extreme events on constitutional compliance	3
Debt restrictions and municipal indebtedness in American cities: evidence from the Roaring Twenties	2
JOI volume 18 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
Disruptive innovation in the economic organization of China and the West	2
The complementarity between automation and flexible labour contracts: firm-level evidence from Italy	2
JOI volume 18 issue 6 Cover and Back matter	2
Conceptualising knowledge governance: knowledge regimes and institutions	2
JOI volume 18 issue 6 Cover and Front matter	2
Coproduction and the crafting of cognitive institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic	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
Constitutional catallaxy and indigenous rights: the Australian case	2
Frontier academic research in OECD countries: the role of institutional factors	2
Mapping inflation to economic freedom in the post-COVID era	2

‘A public economy approach to education: school choice and co-production’ revisited	2
Repugnant innovation	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
A needs theory of governance: taking transaction cost theory back to humanistic economics and self-actualisation	2
Ownership or possession? On Bart Wilson's concept of ownership	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
Implementation of the Brazilian Forest Code: a meso-institutional approach	2
Institutions and tax capacity in sub-Saharan Africa	2
Role of social aversion in the motivations for tax law compliance	1
Corporate hierarchies and workplace voice	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
Ancestral institutions and the salience of African ethnicity: Theory and Evidence	1
Learning like a state organizational learning and state capacity in ancient Greece	1
The Black Mouth Society and governance on the Great Plains	1
Markets, repugnance, and externalities	1
Worker takeovers: a comparative analysis of employee buyouts, other worker-managed firms, and conventional firms in Uruguay	1
The primacy of property; or, the subordination of property rights	1
The evolution of economies, technologies, and other institutions: exploring W. Brian Arthur's insights	1
Countless ways to count: the functional heterogeneity of number systems	1
The political economy of China's Belt and Road Initiative	1
What do women get from a successful revolution?	1
The authors of economics journals revisited: evidence from a large-scale replication of Hodgson and Rothman (1999)	1
Theorizing polycentric governance of global socio-ecological challenges through a meso-institutional perspective	1
Introduction to the symposium on ‘crisis and persistence: dynamics of institutional changes at the interface between formal and informal institutions’	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
Legitimacy of government and governance	1
Inclusive national innovation systems: rethinking institutions in the light of inclusion imperatives	1
Why mission-directed governance risks authoritarianism: lessons from East Asia	1
Community and informal institutions in reforms under crises: the odyssey of a 350-year-old functionally credible water commons	1
Containment or bad detection? Poor state capacity implications on reported Covid-19 cases	1
Individualism, universalism and climate change	1
Conceptualizing the fiscal state: implications for sub-Saharan Africa	1
Repugnance and institutions: an introductory essay	1
Economic analyses of repugnant market transactions: a modest typology	1
Shock me like a Hurricane: how Hurricane Katrina changed Louisiana's formal and informal institutions	1
The old boy network: are the professional networks of female executives less effective than men's for advancing their careers?	1
JOI volume 18 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	1
Bringing emotions into post-Northian institutional economics: a reading inspired by John Dewey	1
Polycentric governance in collusive agreements	1
Institutions and development in a fragile limited access order of late-medieval Lithuania	1
Environmental economics in Classical Athens	1