OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Review of Law and 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Strategic anarchy; a model of prison violence as a means to informal governance and rent extraction	24
Workload, legal doctrine, and judicial review in an authoritarian regime: A study of expropriation judgments in China	18
Law and inequality: A comparative approach to the distributive implications of legal systems	18
Scale and scope economies in first-instance courts: Portuguese specialized vs non-specialized courts	15
Editorial Board	12
Editorial Board	12
AI devices and liability	10
Selling and abandoning legal rights	10
Embedded courts under campaign-style enforcement: How top-down reforms reshape conditional justice in China	8
Financial innovation and local governments investment	8
Editorial Board	7
Proposal convergence and settlement under final offer arbitration	7
Reinforcing data protection and competition through art. 6(2) of the Digital Markets Act	6
Editorial Board	6
Liability and the incentive to improve information about risk when injurers may be judgment-proof	6
Competition and the two margins of privacy	6
Editorial Board	6
Private enforcement of procurement rules: The heterogeneous effect of the EU remedies directive	6
Fighting free with free: Freemium vs. Piracy	5
Editorial Board	5
Collusion in bidding markets: The case of the French public transport industry	5
“Platform Holdup” and Platform Regulation	5
Advance disclosure of insider transactions: Empirical evidence from the Vietnamese stock market	5
Seemingly irrelevant information? The impact of legal team size on third party perceptions	4
Unequal unification? Income inequality and unification in nineteenth century Italy and Germany	4

Lost in election. How different electoral systems translate the voting gender gap into gender representation bias	4
Crime and the Mariel Boatlift	4
Borrowers’ discouragement and creditor information	4
Estimating the effect of U.S. concealed carry laws on homicide: A replication and sensitivity analysis	4
How acceptable is optimal deterrence?	4
And the law relaxed the rules – A quasi-experimental study of fatal police shootings in Europe	4
Citizens united and individual sovereignty: A fresh perspective	4
Recourse restrictions and judicial foreclosures: Effects of mortgage law on loan price and collateralization	3
Ethnolinguistic diversity, quality of local public institutions, and firm-level innovation	3
State versus federal wiretap orders: A look at the data	3
Which companies pay more (or less) in legal fees? An empirical study of India	3
Optimal standards of proof in antitrust	3
Non-compliance of the European Court of Human Rights decisions: A machine learning analysis	3
Corrigendum to “The Priest-Klein hypotheses: Proofs and generality” [Int. Rev. Law Econ. 48 (2016) 59–76]	3
Predicting patent lawsuits with machine learning	3
A macrohistory of legal evolution and coevolution: Property, procedure, and contract in early-modern English caselaw	3
Allocating the common costs of a public service operator: An axiomatic approach	3
Counteracting offshore tax evasion: Evidence from the foreign account tax compliance act	3
When more isn’t always better: The ambiguity of fully transparent judicial action and unrestricted publication rules	3
Is transparency a blessing or a curse? An experimental horse race between accountability and extortionary corruption	2
Settled: Patent characteristics and litigation outcomes in the pharmaceutical industry	2
An inspector calls: On the optimality of warning firms about ongoing inspections in antitrust policy	2
Ban-the-box laws: Fair and effective?	2
Estimating the effect of concealed carry laws on murder: A response to Bondy, et al.	2
Focus vs. spread: Police box consolidation and its impact on crime in Korea	2
Elective corporate governance: Does board choice matter?	2
Notice-and-takedown as dispute resolution: An empirical analysis of GitHub notices	2
A panel-based proxy for gun prevalence in US and Mexico	2
Optimal fine reductions for self-reporting: The impact of loss aversion	2
Bayesian persuasion in lawyer–client communication	2
ON THE DECLINE IN STATE POPULATION DISTRIBUTION: A COASEAN ROLE FOR SECTION 111 OF THE AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION?	2
Editorial Board	2
Judiciary-driven finance: Quasi-experimental evidence from specialized financial adjudication institutions in China	2
How stock market reacts to environmental disasters and judicial decisions: A case study of Mariana’s dam collapse in Brazil	2
The broken-windows theory of crime: A Bayesian approach	2
Judicial compliance in district courts	2
The effects of reputational sanctions on culpable firms: Evidence from China’s stock markets	2
Editorial Board	2
Ex-ante versus Ex-post in competition law enforcement: Blurred boundaries and economic rationale	2
Taxing banks leverage and syndicated lending: A cross-country comparison	2
The impact of antitrust enforcement on China’s digital platforms: Evidence from SAMR v. Alibaba	2
Inter-municipal cooperation in drinking water supply: Trade-offs between transaction costs, efficiency and service quality	2
Girls Just Wanna Have Funds? The effect of women-friendly legislation on female-led firms’ access to credit	1
Artificial intelligence, inattention and liability rules	1
When do governments attack the judiciary? The explanatory power of political corruption	1
Beyond courts: Does strategic litigation affect climate change policy support?	1
A model of competitive self-regulation	1
Competing with Leviathan: Law and government ownership in China’s public-private partnership market	1
Clearance rates and disposition times: Not the whole story of judicial efficiency	1
Did the French reform of the judicial map affect conciliation activities?	1

Populist constitutional backsliding and judicial independence: Evidence from Türkiye	1
An ounce of prevention, a pound of cure: The effects of college expansions on crime	1
Editorial Board	1
Does court-annexed mediation facilitate case disposition? Evidence from civil and commercial lawsuits	1
Resolution of corporate insolvency during COVID-19 pandemic. Evidence from France	1
Editorial Board	1
Mandatory employee board representation: Good news for family firms?	1
Editorial Board	1
Bias in media coverage of antitrust actions	1
An economic rationale for the different methods of feeding enslaved people in the antebellum South and British West Indies	1
Editorial Board	1
Response to “Contracting for sex in the Pacific War” by J. Mark Ramseyer	1
Liability law, Defensive medicine and Healthcare quality	1
Editorial Board	1
Has the European Takeover Bids Directive reached its objectives? The cases of Finland, Germany and Spain	1
Ask more, awarded more: Evidence from Taiwan’s courts	1
Do women drive corporate social responsibility? Evidence from gender diversity reforms around the world	1
Consent or coordination? assemblies in early medieval Europe	1
Conflict and property law: The hidden costs of takings and of liability rule protection	1
The performance of corporate legal insider trading in the Korean market	1
The strategic interaction between cartels and anti-trust authorities	1
Williamson’s legacy: A lasting influence	1
Using experimental evidence to improve delegated enforcement	1
Where’s Coase? Transaction costs reduction or rent-seeking in determining US environmental policies	1