OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Comparative Economics is 2. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Clans, entrepreneurship, and development of the private sector in China	80
Political connection, corporate philanthropy and efficiency: Evidence from China’s anti-corruption campaign	63
The Washington consensus works: Causal effects of reform, 1970-2015	45
Austerity and anarchy: Budget cuts and social unrest in Europe, 1919–2008	42
Local financial development and constraints on domestic private-firm exports: Evidence from city commercial banks in China	41
The effects of trade, aid, and investment on China's image in Latin America	36
The great Chinese inequality turnaround	36
Which sanctions matter? analysis of the EU/russian sanctions of 2014	35
Social heterogeneity and local bias in peer-to-peer lending – evidence from China	28
Coups d’état and the cost of debt	24
Lineage networks, urban migration and income inequality: Evidence from rural China	24
Corruption and growth: Historical evidence, 1790–2010	23
The deep historical roots of modern culture: A comparative perspective	23
Educated dictators attract more foreign direct investment	23
Gender discrimination in China: Experimental evidence from the job market for college graduates	21
Does foreign technology transfer spur domestic innovation? Evidence from the high-speed rail sector in China	20
Capitalist systems and income inequality	19
Convergence, divergence, or multiple steady states? New evidence on the institutional development within the European Union	19
Corruption and re-election: how much can politicians steal before getting punished?	19
Non-commercial goals and financial performance of state-owned enterprises – some evidence from the electricity sector in the EU countries	18
The joint effects of financial development and the business environment on firm growth: Evidence from Vietnam	17
Is international tax competition only about taxes? A market-based perspective	17
Political elites and hometown favoritism in famine-stricken China	17
Political hierarchy and urban primacy: Evidence from China	17
Scientific personnel reallocation and firm innovation: Evidence from China’s college expansion	16

The varying shadow of China's banking system	15
Estimating returns to education in urban China: Evidence from a natural experiment in schooling reform	15
Culture, diversity, and the welfare state	15
How local leaders matter: Inter-provincial leadership transfers and land transactions in China	14
Post-materialism and economic growth: Cultural backlash, 1981–2019	14
Domestic segment of global value chains in China under state capitalism	14
Can bribery buy health? Evidence from post-communist countries	14
Women's political leadership and economic empowerment: Evidence from public works in India	13
Roman roads to prosperity: Persistence and non-persistence of public infrastructure	13
The impact of non-cognitive skills and risk preferences on rural-to-urban migration in Ukraine	13
Authoritarian transparency: China's missing cases in court disclosure	12
Corporate governance and investment-cash flow sensitivity: Evidence from Russian unlisted firms	12
Government ideology and economic freedom	12
A model of tournament incentives with corruption	12
Fear Not For Man? Armed conflict and social capital in Mali	12
Coups, regime transitions, and institutional consequences	12
Anti-muslim bias in the Chinese labor market	11
How fast does product market reform pay off? New evidence from non-manufacturing industry deregulation in advanced economies	11
Democratic transitions can attract foreign direct investment: Effect, trajectories, and the role of political risk	11
School entry age and educational attainment in developing countries: Evidence from China's compulsory education law	11
The PRC's long-run growth through the lens of the export-led growth model	11
The gender gap in competitive chess across countries: Commanding queens in command economies	10
The political agenda effect and state centralization	10
The role of firms in the gender wage gap	10
The role of oil in the allocation of foreign aid: The case of the G7 donors	10
Fertility and maternal labor supply: Evidence from the new two-child policies in urban China	10
The competence-loyalty tradeoff in China's political selection	10
Unfair inequality, governance and individual beliefs	10
The impact of foreign direct investment on innovation: Evidence from patent filings and citations in China	10
Does violence against civilians depress voter turnout? Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina	9
The origins of political institutions and property rights	9
The legacy of state socialism on attitudes toward immigration	9
Rich or alive? Political (in)stability, political leader selection and economic growth	9
The long-term effects of Protestant activities in China	9
The moderating role of culture on the benefits of economic freedom: Cross-country analysis	9
Violence exposure and poverty: Evidence from the Burundi civil war	9
You are suffocating me: Firm-level analysis of state-owned enterprises and private investment	9
Firms and wage inequality in Central and Eastern Europe	9
The intergenerational transmission of historical conflicts: An application to China’s trade	8
Religious rules as a means of strengthening family ties: Theory and evidence from the Amish	8
Enfranchising non-citizens: What drives natives’ willingness to share power?	8
Shutdown policies and conflict worldwide	8
The effects of labor regulation on firms and exports: Evidence from Indian apparel manufacturing	8
The trade effects of skilled versus unskilled migration	7
Road to productivity: Effects of roads on total factor productivity in Indian manufacturing	7
The effect of regulating political connections: Evidence from China's board of directors ban	7
The politics of experimentation: Political competition and randomized controlled trials	7
Mapping the theory of political representation to the empirics: An investigation for proportional and majoritarian rules	7
Media’s role in the making of a democrat: Evidence from East Germany	7
The effects of elections on macroprudential policy	7

Exchange rate disconnect and financial constraints —evidence from Chinese firms	7
Distressed acquisitions: Evidence from European emerging markets	6
More federal legislators lead to more resources for their constituencies: Evidence from exogenous differences in seat allocations	6
Does competition cause government decentralization? The case of state-owned enterprises	6
Θ The cultural transmission of trust norms: Evide	6
Access to local citizenship and internal migration in a developing country: Evidence from a Hukou reform in China	6
Reducing tariff evasion: The role of trade facilitation	6
Sexual exploitation of trafficked children: Survey evidence from child sex workers in Bangladesh	6
Riding out of a financial crisis: The joint effect of trust and corporate ownership	5
Trust in government in times of crisis: A quasi-experiment during the two world wars✰	5
Touch thee not: Group conflict, caste power and untouchability in rural India	5
Foreign investment regulation and firm productivity: Granular evidence from Indonesia	5
The origins of agricultural inheritance traditions	5
Wage and unemployment: Evidence from online job vacancy data	5
Bribes vs. taxes: Market structure and incentives	5
Picking winners? Government subsidies and firm productivity in China	5
Labor market dynamics in urban China and the role of the state sector	5
The effect of non-employment-based health insurance program on firm's offering of health insurance: Evidence from the social health insurance system in China	5
Historical legacies in savings: Evidence from Romania	5
The wise, the politician, and the strongman: Types of national leaders and quality of governance	4
Measuring human capital in middle income countries	4
Past exposure to macroeconomic shocks and populist attitudes in Europe	4
The trade-off between risk and incentives in fiscal federalism: Evidence from China	4
Markups and income inequality: Causal links, 1975-2011	4
The causal effects of parents’ schooling on children's schooling in urban China	4
Learning from processing trade: Firm evidence from China	4
Unveiling the effects of a headscarf ban: Evidence from municipal jobs in Turkey	4
Has globalization shrunk manufacturing labor share in transition economies?	4
Decentralization of firms in a country with weak institutions: Evidence from Russia	4
Human capital accumulation: Evidence from immigrants in low-income countries	4
Rules versus norms: How formal and informal institutions shape judicial sentencing cycles	4
The economic effects of international sanctions: An event study	4
Political survival, local accountability, and long-term development: Evidence from an authoritarian country	4
The welfare effects of FDI: A quantitative analysis	4
Foreign direct investment and industrial agglomeration: Evidence from China	4
Outsiders, insiders and interventions in the housing market	3
Current expenditure upswings in good times and public investment downswings in bad times? New evidence from developing countries	3
The effects of immigration restriction laws on immigrant segregation in the early twentieth century U.S.	3
How does stock liquidity affect corporate tax noncompliance? Evidence from China✰	3
Farewell to the God of Plague: Estimating the effects of China's Universal Salt Iodization on educational outcomes	3
Do wages grow with experience? Deciphering the Russian puzzle	3
Redistribution of Economic Resources due to Conflict: The Maoist Uprising in Nepal	3
The influence of colonialism on Africa's welfare: An anthropometric study	3
Your misfortune is also mine: Land expropriation, property rights insecurity, and household behaviors in rural China	3
Going postal: State capacity and violent dispute resolution	3
Informal institution meets child development: Clan culture and child labor in China	3
The effect of primary school type on the high school opportunities of migrant children in China	3
Political salaries, electoral selection and the incumbency advantage: Evidence from a wage reform	3
The impact of health insurance on job location choice: Evidence from rural China	3
Regional (in)stability in Europe a quantitative model of state fragmentation	3
Defective democracy and the political budget cycle	3
Ancestry and international trade	2
Regional migration and wage inequality in the West African economic and monetary union	2
Effects of corruption on foreign direct investment: Evidence from Swedish multinational enterprises	2
Perception of political instability in election periods: Evidence from African firms	2
Firms’ access to finance in resource-based countries and the financial resource curse	2
Does the early bird catch the worm? The effect of school starting age on educational attainment and labor market outcomes: Evidence from Chinese urban twins data	2
Stuck outside the single market; Evidence from firms in central and eastern Europe	2
The puzzling politics of R&D: Signaling competence through risky projects	2
Import competition, fast-track authority and U.S. policy toward China	2
Political economy of real exchange rate levels	2
The effects of EU-funded enterprise grants on firms and workers	2
Mass protests, security-elite defection, and revolution	2
The timing of first marriage and subsequent life outcomes: Evidence from a natural experiment	2
The unintended harms of infrastructure: Opium and road construction in Afghanistan	2
Wage inequality and skill supplies in a globalised world	2
Pandemic knowledge and regulation effectiveness: Evidence from COVID-19	2
Beyond climate and conflict relationships: New evidence from a Copula-based analysis on an historical perspective	2
When the message hurts: The unintended impacts of nudges on saving	2
The company you keep: Satisfaction with life, economic freedom, and preference-policy mismatch	2
A rising tide that lifts all boats: An analysis of economic freedom and inequality using matching methods	2
Divesting under Pressure: U.S. firms’ exit in response to Russia’s war against Ukraine	2
The East-West German gap in revenue productivity:Just a tale of output prices?	2