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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Workload, legal doctrine, and judicial review in an authoritarian regime: A study of expropriation judgments in China	20
Strategic anarchy; a model of prison violence as a means to informal governance and rent extraction	17
Law and inequality: A comparative approach to the distributive implications of legal systems	16
Scale and scope economies in first-instance courts: Portuguese specialized vs non-specialized courts	14
Selling and abandoning legal rights	11
Editorial Board	11
Editorial Board	10
Editorial Board	10
Liability and the incentive to improve information about risk when injurers may be judgment-proof	9
Editorial Board	9
Proposal convergence and settlement under final offer arbitration	8
Entrepreneurs’ legal infractions and hidden information: Evidence from small business bankruptcies	6
Competition and the two margins of privacy	6
Advance disclosure of insider transactions: Empirical evidence from the Vietnamese stock market	5
“Platform Holdup” and Platform Regulation	5
The internet echo chamber and the misinformation of judges: The case of judges’ perception of public support for the death penalty in China	5
Reinforcing data protection and competition through art. 6(2) of the Digital Markets Act	5
Fighting free with free: Freemium vs. Piracy	5
Lost in election. How different electoral systems translate the voting gender gap into gender representation bias	5
Seemingly irrelevant information? The impact of legal team size on third party perceptions	4
Borrowers’ discouragement and creditor information	4
Editorial Board	4
And the law relaxed the rules – A quasi-experimental study of fatal police shootings in Europe	4
Estimating the effect of U.S. concealed carry laws on homicide: A replication and sensitivity analysis	4
How acceptable is optimal deterrence?	4

Regulation and purchase diversity: Empirical evidence from the U.S. alcohol market	4
Citizens united and individual sovereignty: A fresh perspective	4
Crime and the Mariel Boatlift	3
Optimal standards of proof in antitrust	3
When more isn’t always better: The ambiguity of fully transparent judicial action and unrestricted publication rules	3
Unequal unification? Income inequality and unification in nineteenth century Italy and Germany	3
Predicting patent lawsuits with machine learning	3
State versus federal wiretap orders: A look at the data	3
Authorial control of the Supreme Court: Chief Justice Roberts and the Obamacare surprise	3
Non-compliance of the European Court of Human Rights decisions: A machine learning analysis	3
Courts as monitoring agents: The case of China	3
A macrohistory of legal evolution and coevolution: Property, procedure, and contract in early-modern English caselaw	3
Recourse restrictions and judicial foreclosures: Effects of mortgage law on loan price and collateralization	3
Which companies pay more (or less) in legal fees? An empirical study of India	3
Counteracting offshore tax evasion: Evidence from the foreign account tax compliance act	2
Ethnolinguistic diversity, quality of local public institutions, and firm-level innovation	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
Settled: Patent characteristics and litigation outcomes in the pharmaceutical industry	2
Allocating supervisory responsibilities to central bankers: Does national culture matter?	2
The effects of reputational sanctions on culpable firms: Evidence from China’s stock markets	2
Allocating the common costs of a public service operator: An axiomatic approach	2
Editorial Board	2
Is transparency a blessing or a curse? An experimental horse race between accountability and extortionary corruption	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
Litigation with adversarial efforts	2
Corrigendum to “The Priest-Klein hypotheses: Proofs and generality” [Int. Rev. Law Econ. 48 (2016) 59–76]	2
Crime, credible enforcement, and multiple equilibria	2
Optimal fine reductions for self-reporting: The impact of loss aversion	2
Should environment be a concern for competition policy when firms face environmental liability?	2
A panel-based proxy for gun prevalence in US and Mexico	2
Editorial Board	1
Do women drive corporate social responsibility? Evidence from gender diversity reforms around the world	1
Bias in media coverage of antitrust actions	1
Mandatory employee board representation: Good news for family firms?	1
A model of competitive self-regulation	1
Judiciary-driven finance: Quasi-experimental evidence from specialized financial adjudication institutions in China	1
Editorial Board	1
Response to “Contracting for sex in the Pacific War” by J. Mark Ramseyer	1
Resolution of corporate insolvency during COVID-19 pandemic. Evidence from France	1
The impact of antitrust enforcement on China’s digital platforms: Evidence from SAMR v. Alibaba	1
Using experimental evidence to improve delegated enforcement	1
Artificial intelligence, inattention and liability rules	1
An economic rationale for the different methods of feeding enslaved people in the antebellum South and British West Indies	1
Ask more, awarded more: Evidence from Taiwan’s courts	1
Accident avoidance and settlement bargaining: The role of reciprocity	1
Consent or coordination? assemblies in early medieval Europe	1
Estimating the effect of concealed carry laws on murder: A response to Bondy, et al.	1
Competing with Leviathan: Law and government ownership in China’s public-private partnership market	1

Editorial Board	1
Taxing banks leverage and syndicated lending: A cross-country comparison	1
Ex-ante versus Ex-post in competition law enforcement: Blurred boundaries and economic rationale	1
Elective corporate governance: Does board choice matter?	1
Conflict and property law: The hidden costs of takings and of liability rule protection	1
Beyond courts: Does strategic litigation affect climate change policy support?	1
An ounce of prevention, a pound of cure: The effects of college expansions on crime	1
Notice-and-takedown as dispute resolution: An empirical analysis of GitHub notices	1
Did the French reform of the judicial map affect conciliation activities?	1
Has the European Takeover Bids Directive reached its objectives? The cases of Finland, Germany and Spain	1
Focus vs. spread: Police box consolidation and its impact on crime in Korea	1
When do governments attack the judiciary? The explanatory power of political corruption	1
Judicial compliance in district courts	1
Editorial Board	1
The performance of corporate legal insider trading in the Korean market	1
How stock market reacts to environmental disasters and judicial decisions: A case study of Mariana’s dam collapse in Brazil	1
The broken-windows theory of crime: A Bayesian approach	1
Hospital multi-dimensional quality competition with medical malpractice	1
Editorial Board	1
Liability law, Defensive medicine and Healthcare quality	1
Could Chapter 11 redeem itself? Wealth and welfare effects of the redemption option	1
The strategic interaction between cartels and anti-trust authorities	1
Editorial Board	1
Girls Just Wanna Have Funds? The effect of women-friendly legislation on female-led firms’ access to credit	1