OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Regional Science and Urban Economics is 8. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Viewing urban spatial history from tall buildings	116
Roads, transit and spatial patterns of urbanization in São Paulo: Evidence from the second half of the twentieth century	110
Spillover effects from new housing supply	52
Do municipal mergers reduce the cost of waste management? Evidence from Japan	45
European highway networks, transportation costs, and regional income	41
Airbnb and rental markets: Evidence from Berlin	41
Hospital closure in urban and rural areas and patients’ welfare	39
Cities and water quality	36
Editorial Board	35
Firm sorting, clustering, and vertical disintegration: Evidence from China	31
Work-from-home and cities: An elementary spatial model	28
Equal price for equal place? Demand-driven racial discrimination in the housing market	27
Introduction to the Special Issue: "Urban economics and history"	27
Local inequalities of the COVID-19 crisis	24
Brand loyalty, managerial delegation and position choices: Bertrand versus Cournot competition	24
Educational and gender heterogeneity of the rural-urban earnings premium: New evidence from Norway	24
Empirical behaviour of Anselin et al.’s locally robust LM tests for spatial dependence in a panel data setting	24
The virus that devastated tourism: The impact of covid-19 on the housing market	23
Water infrastructure and health in U.S. cities	22
Agglomeration economies in developing countries: A meta-analysis	21
City size, family migration, and gender wage gap: Evidence from rural–urban migrants in China	21
Estimating housing rent depreciation for inflation adjustments	20
Editorial Board	20
Immigrants' clusters and unequal access to healthcare treatments	20
Re-evaluating the urban wage premium: The changing roles of geographical and job transitions for women and men	19

Editorial Board	18
Location of housing and industry around city centre amenities	17
Cumulative impacts in environmental justice: Insights from economics and policy	17
The effects of a FAR regulation in a model of durable building with redevelopment: The case of New York City	17
Birth dearth and local population decline	16
Biodiversity and population density	16
Finding a better job: The geography of socio-professional mobility during working life	16
Spatial wage differentials, geographic frictions and the organization of labor within firms	15
What if you build it and they don't come? How the ghost of transit past haunts transit present	15
Evaluating the long-run effects of zoning reform on urban development	14
Corrigendum to “Location preferences and slum formation: Evidence from a panel of residence histories” [Reg. Sci. Urban Econ., 97 (November 2022) 103816]	14
Inter-municipal cooperation cloud and tax administrative costs	14
Consumer salience and quality provision in (un)regulated public service markets	14
Decarbonizing passenger transportation in developing countries: Lessons and perspectives1	14
Editorial Board	14
Do local businesses benefit from sports facilities? The case of major league sports stadiums and arenas	14
On the economic geography of an aging society	14
High-speed rail opening and urban air quality	13
The economics of China’s between-city height competition: A regression discontinuity approach	13
Interaction of public and private employment: Evidence from a German government move	13
Housing market responses to the mortgage interest deduction	12
The impact of preferential farmland taxation on local public finances	12
The response of regional well-being to place-based policy interventions	12
Backward-bending labor supply and urban location	12
Do households value lower density: Theory, evidence, and implications from Washington, DC	12
The effect of the earthquake in Central Italy on the depopulation of the affected territories	12
High-tech clusters, labor demand, and inequality: Evidence from “Made in China 2025”	12
The impact of urban redevelopment for mitigating earthquake damage risk on land values	12
A welfare analysis of a monocentric city model under monopolistic competition with heterogeneous firms and variable elasticity of substitution preference	11
Information technology and road safety	11
Immigrants and entrepreneurship: A road for talent or just the only road?	11
Editorial Board	11
Learners in cities: Agglomeration and the spatial division of cognition	11
Understanding local government debt in China: A regional competition perspective	10
Editorial Board	10
Reducing ethnic discrimination through formal warning: Evidence from two combined field experiments	10
Data sharing and tax enforcement: Evidence from short-term rentals in Denmark	10
The housing market impacts of bicycle-sharing systems	10
Government policy and land price dynamics: A quantitative assessment of China’s factor market reforms	10
(In)efficient commuting and migration choices: Theory and policy in an urban search model	9
Homeowner associations and city cohesion	9
Teleworking and housing demand	8
Inter-municipal cooperation and tax enforcement capabilities	8
How local is local development? Evidence from casinos	8
Informal land markets and ethnic kinship in West African cities	8
Persistence and variation of schools as housing amenities	8
Employer-provided parking: Departure time choice, investment decision, and welfare effects	8
Industrialization and urbanization in nineteenth century America	8
Aligning incentives: The effect of mortgage servicing rules on foreclosures and delinquency	8