OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Kyklos 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Piracy: Do the Special 301 Pressures Matter?	16
Time to Graduate Level Employment for New Graduates in the United Kingdom	14
Sovereign Debt in a Warming World: Are Credit Ratings Responding to Climate Risks?	14
The Baby Club: Paternity and Performance in a High‐Pressure Setting	13
Capitalism and Femicide: an Empirical Inquiry	13
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Islam and democracy	13
Government Spending and Civic Engagement: Exploring the Role of Civil Society Participation and Voting in 28 Democracies	13
Regulatory Burdens, Corruption, and Informal Competition: Determinants of Incorporation in Bangladesh	12
The judicial superego: Implicit egoism, internalized racism, and prejudice in three million sentencing decisions	12
Behavioral Factors in Tax Preparer and Tax Compliance Choices	12
Downgrading Estimates Controlling for a Key Confounder: Evidence From PIAAC	10
Statute of Limitations for Tax Evasion	10
The Law is the Last to Know: Evidence That De Facto Progress Drives De Jure Women's Rights	10
Does women's political empowerment matter in military spending?	10
To Equality: Gendered Outcomes, Economic Freedom & Gender Laws	9
Competition Within the Church: Market Entry and the Rise of Traditional Catholicism in the United States	9
Free riding on short‐time work allowances? Results from an experimental survey design	9
Hidden Income: An Analysis of Tenant Benefits in Subsidized Housing in Austria	9
Education and domestic violence: Evidence from a natural experiment in Turkey	9
Variable Payment Schemes and Productivity: Do Individual‐Based Schemes Really Have a Stronger Influence Than Collective Ones?	8
Competitive federalism, individual autonomy, and citizen sovereignty	8
Explaining the Path of the Democratic Transition	7
Louis Bachelier's Théorie de la Spéculation : The Missing Piece in Walras's General Equilibrium	7

Inside the ‘Black Box’ of the Nexus Between Economic Conditions and Crime: Can the Relationship Be Mitigated?	7
Citizens' attitudes towards climate mitigation policies: The role of occupational exposure in EU countries	7
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The Returns to Education: A Meta‐Study	7
Females in Corporate Business: Do Ownership and Homophily Matter in the Context of Tax Avoidance?	7
Pronoun Drop as an Instrumental Variable	7
Forging Monetary Hawks: Early‐Life Inflation Experiences and Government Debt in Africa	6
Freedom Types and Life Satisfaction: Empirical Evidence on the Role of Individual and Civic‐Oriented Values	6
The Effect of Swiss Free Trade Agreements on Agricultural Trade	6
Financial Inclusion: Does Cultural Heterogeneity Matter?	6
Sunlight, culture and state capacity	6
Neutral Theory, Stochasticity, and the Efficiency of Social Institutions	6
Why Do Prosocial People Dislike Markets in Some Countries and Like Them in Others?	6
Are Business Students More Self‐Interested Than Law Students? A Longitudinal Study	6
Feeling the heat? Fear of failure and performance	5
Does Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Affect Voting Behavior? Evidence From Taiwan's 2018 Referendum and Local Government Elections	5
Public Debt in a Federal State: Warnings From Belgium	5
The election campaign for parliament in the age of the Internet	5
Ownership and media slant: Evidence from Swedish newspapers	5
Public Goods Provision and Democratic Legitimacy in Latin America: Does Citizen Satisfaction With Local and Political Public Goods Matter?	5
“The Quartet” and Reform of the Exchange Rate System, 1945–73: A Reconstitution	5
An Empirical Analysis of Institutional Coevolution in the European Union	5
The shape of business cycles: A cross‐country analysis of Friedman's plucking theory	5
Revisiting the impact of corruption on income inequality worldwide	5
Rent Seekers in the Interest of Society? Civil Organizations and Regional Innovation in China	4
Reassessing the Role of Financial Knowledge and Confidence for Financial Outcomes Across Income Groups in the EU	4
Citizenship, Math and Gender: Exploring Immigrant Students' Choice of Majors	4
Dynamic panel analysis of the EU's fiscal reaction function with threshold effects	4
Economics is beautiful!	4
Parental education and child health: The exploration of the cross‐gender intergenerational transmission mechanism	4
Constitutional Political Economy and the Nature and Effects of Rights	4
Corporate philanthropy, political connections, and costs of equity capital	4
Economic policy uncertainty and local government debt: Evidence from China	4
Net Fiscal Contributions in the EU—The Role of Indirect Taxation and In‐Kind Benefits	4
Do Anglo‐Saxon directors affect leverage?	4
Interdependent Preferences for Financing and Providing Public Goods—The Case of National Defense	4
Systematic Literature Review on the Determinants of Demand and Supply at the Combat Aircraft Market	4
Do Science Kardashians Get Citation Premium? Self‐Fulfilling Effects of Social Media on Scientific Impact	4
Institutions as predictors of government discrimination	4
Eudaimonic wellbeing and life expectancy	4
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Bribery and Its Effect on Innovation: When Bank Finance Matters	3
Issue Information	3
Early Evidence of “Finance for Normal People” in the First Era of Globalization	3
Polluting Local Government Bond: The Effect of Air Pollution on Public Financing Costs in China	3
Is Individual Tax Compliance a Matter of Meritocracy? The Role of Perceived Social Mobility on Tax Morale	3
Learning from corporate governance: First conceptualization of a liability for political decision‐making	3
Too Much of a Good Thing? Telework Intensity and Workplace Experiences	3
Weaned off public money: The effect of discontinued reception of public cash on firm outcomes	3
Serial Position Bias Among Experts: Evidence From a Cooking Competition Show	3

The case for independence: Does central bank independence curb the spread of the underground economy?	3
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Is pain associated with subsequent job loss? A panel study for Germany	3
A family member's death increases religious activity: Evidence from Germany	3
Are government expenditures more cyclical the more they finance the provision of public goods?	3
Trade Liberalization, IMF Conditionality, and Policy Substitution in Developing Countries	3
Forever young: Relative age effects in Belgian political selection	3
Do White Saviour perceptions reduce charitable giving? Evidence from five online studies	3
Framing Effects in Intertemporal Choices: 3 Two‐Step Experiments	3
Women's Electoral Success and Female Voter Turnout: Evidence From Individual Voting Data for Germany	3
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Economic freedom and the quality of education	2
Underperforming reformers: Examining disappointing cases of economic reforms	2
Misrepresentation and migration	2
Income distribution and nudity on social media: Attention economics of Instagram stars	2
Issue Information	2
Does food import contribute to rising obesity in low‐ and middle‐income countries?	2
Towards a Responsible Liberalism	2
State history and political instability: The disadvantage of early state development	2
Satisfaction with public goods provision and citizen preferences for institutional changes: Evidence from the dictatorship‐era constitution in Chile	2
Vertical Transfers, Political Alignment, and Efficiency in Local Government	2
Abstract Moral Decisions Are Unchanged After Oxytocin Administration	2
Have Autocrats Governed for the Long Term?	2
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Beyond the Tax‐the‐Rich Narrative: How Italians Consider Taxing Wealth	2
Effects of Teaching Practices on Life Satisfaction and Test Scores: Evidence From the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)	2
Revisiting the Relationship Between Corruption and Press Freedom	2
E‐Verify Mandates and Voting Behavior of Naturalized Citizens in the United States	2
AI and the Law	2
Academic Achievement and Emotional Education Using Music Learning in Spain	2
Patriarchy, development, and the divergence of women's empowerment	2
Between fearmongers and Samaritans: Does information provision affect attitudes towards the right of asylum in Germany?	2
Indirect Consequences of Locally Observed Corruption on Taxpayers' Motivation to Cheat on Taxes	2
Public goods and diversity in democracies and non‐democracies	2
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Extending Cliometrics to Ancient History Using Complexity	1
Social media effects on well‐being: The hypothesis of addiction of a new variety	1
Slave trades, kinship structures and women's political participation in Africa	1
Tactical Refereeing and Signaling by Publishing	1
Is there a happy culture? Multiple paths to national subjective well‐being	1
Rot‐Jaune‐Verde: On linguistic bias of referees in Swiss soccer*	1
North Meets Hofstede: Effects of Individualistic Culture on Property Rights	1
Temperature and Productivity in Soccer	1
Trust plays no role in regional U.S. economic development—And five other problems with the trust literature	1
Parental Gender Stereotypes and Student Well‐Being in China	1
Do Fiscal Rules Enhance States' Fiscal Capacity?	1
Cultural Capital Externalities: Causal Evidence From a Danish Ticket Scheme for Theatres	1
Language Structure and Political Ideology: Evidence From the World Value Survey	1
Psychological Wellness and Altruism: How Early‐Life Risks Shape Adult Preferences	1
A market for citizenships: Should citizenship be commodified?	1
Work organization in social enterprises: A source of job satisfaction?	1
The Sounds of Trust: The Bouba–Kiki Effect in Political Leaders' Names	1
Self‐love, growth, and competition in a public good game	1
Cultural Aspects of Tax Preferences in Transition Economies	1
Data transparency and growth in developing economies during and after the global financial crisis	1
Preference evolution, attention, and happiness	1
Labor mobility agreements and exit of migrants: Evidence from Europe	1
The Dissociative Effects of Institutional Versus Personal and General Social Trust on Democracy	1
The Cost of Hegemony: The Interplay Between Urban Concentration and Growth (1400–1800)	1
On a Transformation of the Gini Coefficient into a Well‐Behaved Social Welfare Function	1
Does War Make States? Military Spending and the Italian State‐Building, 1861–1945	1
Social capital, social heterogeneity, and electoral turnout	1
Do Promarket Reforms Prevent Firms' Environmental Misconduct? The Role of Political Ties and Returnee Directors in Emerging Economies	1
Does Public Expenditure on Education Improve Well‐Being? International Evidence	1
Do 2 weeks of instruction time matter? Using a natural experiment to estimate the effect of a calendar change on students' performance	1
The impact of recentralization reform on corruption: evidence from a quasi‐natural experiment	1
The electoral consequences of the political divide on climate change	1
Does Character Matter When Everyone Cheats? Peer Influence and Environmental Drivers of Academic Misconduct	1
Education and the Shadow Economy: A Panel Cointegration Analysis	1
Homophily in voting behavior: Evidence from preferential voting	1
The sun's position at birth is unrelated to subjective well‐being: Debunking astrological claims	1
Dying to die: New micro and macro evidence that suicide terrorists are suicidal	1
Where Informal Institutions Lead, Innovation Follows: Role of Local Creative Culture on Bank Financial Innovation	1
Seventy‐five years West German currency reform: Crisis as catalyst for the erosion of the market order	1
Split personalities? Behavioral effects of temperature on financial decision‐making	1