OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Regional Science and Urban Economics is 7. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	89
Viewing urban spatial history from tall buildings	85
Hospital closure in urban and rural areas and patients’ welfare	78
Do municipal mergers reduce the cost of waste management? Evidence from Japan	58
Spillover effects from new housing supply	46
Airbnb and rental markets: Evidence from Berlin	35
European highway networks, transportation costs, and regional income	34
Roads, transit and spatial patterns of urbanization in São Paulo: Evidence from the second half of the twentieth century	34
Introduction to the Special Issue: "Urban economics and history"	33
Water infrastructure and health in U.S. cities	33
Educational and gender heterogeneity of the rural-urban earnings premium: New evidence from Norway	32
Cities and water quality	30
Agglomeration economies in developing countries: A meta-analysis	30
Local inequalities of the COVID-19 crisis	29
Editorial Board	27
Empirical behaviour of Anselin et al.’s locally robust LM tests for spatial dependence in a panel data setting	27
Firm sorting, clustering, and vertical disintegration: Evidence from China	26
Equal price for equal place? Demand-driven racial discrimination in the housing market	21
Work-from-home and cities: An elementary spatial model	20
The virus that devastated tourism: The impact of covid-19 on the housing market	20
Brand loyalty, managerial delegation and position choices: Bertrand versus Cournot competition	20
Immigrants' clusters and unequal access to healthcare treatments	20
Location of housing and industry around city centre amenities	19
Estimating housing rent depreciation for inflation adjustments	19
City size, family migration, and gender wage gap: Evidence from rural–urban migrants in China	19

Introduction to special issue on rural-urban migration in honor of Harris and Todaro	18
The effects of a FAR regulation in a model of durable building with redevelopment: The case of New York City	18
Cumulative impacts in environmental justice: Insights from economics and policy	18
Editorial Board	16
Editorial Board	16
Consumer salience and quality provision in (un)regulated public service markets	15
Re-evaluating the urban wage premium: The changing roles of geographical and job transitions for women and men	15
What if you build it and they don't come? How the ghost of transit past haunts transit present	15
Do local businesses benefit from sports facilities? The case of major league sports stadiums and arenas	15
The prices of residential land in German counties	15
Inter-municipal cooperation cloud and tax administrative costs	14
On the economic geography of an aging society	13
Corrigendum to “Location preferences and slum formation: Evidence from a panel of residence histories” [Reg. Sci. Urban Econ., 97 (November 2022) 103816]	13
Evaluating the long-run effects of zoning reform on urban development	13
Decarbonizing passenger transportation in developing countries: Lessons and perspectives1	13
The accident externality from trucking: Evidence from shale gas development	12
The refugee wave to Germany and its impact on crime	12
Interaction of public and private employment: Evidence from a German government move	11
The carbon ‘carprint’ of urbanization: New evidence from French cities	11
Backward-bending labor supply and urban location	11
The economics of China’s between-city height competition: A regression discontinuity approach	11
Do households value lower density: Theory, evidence, and implications from Washington, DC	11
Rural-urban migration and house prices in China	11
The effectiveness of job creation tax credits	11
The impact of preferential farmland taxation on local public finances	11
The causal economic effects of Olympic Games on host regions	10
Editorial Board	10
Understanding local government debt in China: A regional competition perspective	10
Government policy and land price dynamics: A quantitative assessment of China’s factor market reforms	10
The response of regional well-being to place-based policy interventions	10
Data sharing and tax enforcement: Evidence from short-term rentals in Denmark	10
Immigrants and entrepreneurship: A road for talent or just the only road?	10
Property tax capitalization, a case study of Dallas County	10
The effect of the earthquake in Central Italy on the depopulation of the affected territories	10
Learners in cities: Agglomeration and the spatial division of cognition	10
Teleworking and housing demand	10
The housing market impacts of bicycle-sharing systems	9
Homeowner associations and city cohesion	9
Reducing ethnic discrimination through formal warning: Evidence from two combined field experiments	9
Industrial structure in urban accounting	9
Persistence and variation of schools as housing amenities	9
(In)efficient commuting and migration choices: Theory and policy in an urban search model	9
Aligning incentives: The effect of mortgage servicing rules on foreclosures and delinquency	8
Industrialization and urbanization in nineteenth century America	8
The impact of Airbnb on residential property values and rents: Evidence from Portugal	8
Vertical migration externalities	7
Recreational cannabis dispensary access effects on prescription opioid use and mortality	7
Willingness to pay for clean air: Evidence from diesel vehicle registration restrictions in Japan	7
Employer-provided parking: Departure time choice, investment decision, and welfare effects	7
Environmental regulation, local labor market, and skill heterogeneity	7

Coal busts and urban recovery: Evidence from China	7
Cities with forking paths? Agglomeration economies in New Zealand 1976–2018	7
Income segregation's impact on local public expenditures: Evidence from municipalities and school districts, 1980–2010	7
“Ghost cities” versus boom towns: Do China's high-speed rail new towns thrive?	7
Editorial Board	7
Local constant-quality housing market liquidity indices	7
Informal land markets and ethnic kinship in West African cities	7
Commuting barriers to low-wage employment	7
Cross-border casino competition, Externalities and Optimal Tax Policy: A Unified Theory with Quantitative Analysis	7