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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Workload, legal doctrine, and judicial review in an authoritarian regime: A study of expropriation judgments in China	23
Law and inequality: A comparative approach to the distributive implications of legal systems	20
Scale and scope economies in first-instance courts: Portuguese specialized vs non-specialized courts	17
Strategic anarchy; a model of prison violence as a means to informal governance and rent extraction	15
Editorial Board	13
AI devices and liability	9
Selling and abandoning legal rights	9
Editorial Board	9
Liability and the incentive to improve information about risk when injurers may be judgment-proof	7
Entrepreneurs’ legal infractions and hidden information: Evidence from small business bankruptcies	6
Editorial Board	6
Reinforcing data protection and competition through art. 6(2) of the Digital Markets Act	6
Editorial Board	6
Competition and the two margins of privacy	6
Proposal convergence and settlement under final offer arbitration	6
Advance disclosure of insider transactions: Empirical evidence from the Vietnamese stock market	5
Fighting free with free: Freemium vs. Piracy	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
Editorial Board	5
“Platform Holdup” and Platform Regulation	5
Collusion in bidding markets: The case of the French public transport industry	5
Borrowers’ discouragement and creditor information	4
Regulation and purchase diversity: Empirical evidence from the U.S. alcohol market	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
Lost in election. How different electoral systems translate the voting gender gap into gender representation bias	4
Citizens united and individual sovereignty: A fresh perspective	4
Which companies pay more (or less) in legal fees? An empirical study of India	3
Recourse restrictions and judicial foreclosures: Effects of mortgage law on loan price and collateralization	3
Litigation with adversarial efforts	3
Corrigendum to “The Priest-Klein hypotheses: Proofs and generality” [Int. Rev. Law Econ. 48 (2016) 59–76]	3
Courts as monitoring agents: The case of China	3
Predicting patent lawsuits with machine learning	3
Allocating the common costs of a public service operator: An axiomatic approach	3
Optimal standards of proof in antitrust	3
State versus federal wiretap orders: A look at the data	3
Crime and the Mariel Boatlift	3
Seemingly irrelevant information? The impact of legal team size on third party perceptions	3
A macrohistory of legal evolution and coevolution: Property, procedure, and contract in early-modern English caselaw	3
Non-compliance of the European Court of Human Rights decisions: A machine learning analysis	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
An inspector calls: On the optimality of warning firms about ongoing inspections in antitrust policy	2
Ethnolinguistic diversity, quality of local public institutions, and firm-level innovation	2
Optimal fine reductions for self-reporting: The impact of loss aversion	2
Hospital multi-dimensional quality competition with medical malpractice	2
Taxing banks leverage and syndicated lending: A cross-country comparison	2
Judiciary-driven finance: Quasi-experimental evidence from specialized financial adjudication institutions in China	2
Ex-ante versus Ex-post in competition law enforcement: Blurred boundaries and economic rationale	2
The effects of reputational sanctions on culpable firms: Evidence from China’s stock markets	2
Editorial Board	2
Crime, credible enforcement, and multiple equilibria	2
Judicial compliance in district courts	2
Editorial Board	2
Ban-the-box laws: Fair and effective?	2
ON THE DECLINE IN STATE POPULATION DISTRIBUTION: A COASEAN ROLE FOR SECTION 111 OF THE AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION?	2
Bayesian persuasion in lawyer–client communication	2
Counteracting offshore tax evasion: Evidence from the foreign account tax compliance act	2
Settled: Patent characteristics and litigation outcomes in the pharmaceutical industry	2
Is transparency a blessing or a curse? An experimental horse race between accountability and extortionary corruption	2
The broken-windows theory of crime: A Bayesian approach	2
A panel-based proxy for gun prevalence in US and Mexico	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
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
Editorial Board	1
How stock market reacts to environmental disasters and judicial decisions: A case study of Mariana’s dam collapse in Brazil	1
Notice-and-takedown as dispute resolution: An empirical analysis of GitHub notices	1
A model of competitive self-regulation	1
Do women drive corporate social responsibility? Evidence from gender diversity reforms around the world	1
Estimating cartel damages with model averaging approaches	1
Conflict and property law: The hidden costs of takings and of liability rule protection	1
The strategic interaction between cartels and anti-trust authorities	1

Editorial Board	1
Using experimental evidence to improve delegated enforcement	1
Beyond courts: Does strategic litigation affect climate change policy support?	1
When do governments attack the judiciary? The explanatory power of political corruption	1
Inter-municipal cooperation in drinking water supply: Trade-offs between transaction costs, efficiency and service quality	1
Ask more, awarded more: Evidence from Taiwan’s courts	1
Estimating the effect of concealed carry laws on murder: A response to Bondy, et al.	1
An ounce of prevention, a pound of cure: The effects of college expansions on crime	1
Elective corporate governance: Does board choice matter?	1
Mandatory employee board representation: Good news for family firms?	1
Strengthening worker benefits or destroying jobs: Effect of the 2008 Labor Contract Law in China	1
Response to “Contracting for sex in the Pacific War” by J. Mark Ramseyer	1
Consent or coordination? assemblies in early medieval Europe	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
Accident avoidance and settlement bargaining: The role of reciprocity	1
Liability law, Defensive medicine and Healthcare quality	1
Focus vs. spread: Police box consolidation and its impact on crime in Korea	1
Has the European Takeover Bids Directive reached its objectives? The cases of Finland, Germany and Spain	1
Where’s Coase? Transaction costs reduction or rent-seeking in determining US environmental policies	1
The performance of corporate legal insider trading in the Korean market	1
Competing with Leviathan: Law and government ownership in China’s public-private partnership market	1
Editorial Board	1
District attorney compensation and performance	1
Populist constitutional backsliding and judicial independence: Evidence from Türkiye	1
An economic rationale for the different methods of feeding enslaved people in the antebellum South and British West Indies	1
Editorial Board	1
Editorial Board	1
Bias in media coverage of antitrust actions	1