OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Political Economy is 5. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Perceptions of inequality	34
Perception vs. experience: Explaining differences in corruption measures using microdata	33
Too afraid to vote? The effects of COVID-19 on voting behaviour	31
Entrepreneurship, fear of failure, and economic policy	28
Vertical fiscal imbalance and local fiscal indiscipline: Empirical evidence from China	28
Natural disasters and electoral outcomes	26
Public opinion on immigration in Europe: Preference and salience	24
Politically connected firms and privileged access to credit: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe	23
The COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on voter turnout	22
Social media networks, fake news, and polarization	20
Gender, attractiveness, and judgment of impropriety: The case of accountants	20
Do unhappy citizens vote for populism?	19
Low-wage import competition and populist backlash: The case of Italy	18
Do fiscal rules need budget transparency to be effective?	18
Using Machine Learning for measuring democracy: A practitioners guide and a new updated dataset for 186 countries from 1919 to 2019	18
Tax evasion and tax morale: A social network analysis	18
Trust in the ECB: Drivers and consequences	17
Do the ECB's introductory statements help predict monetary policy? Evidence from a tone analysis	17
Foreign aid and the quality of economic institutions	17
Exposure to corruption and political participation: Evidence from Italian municipalities	16
Political accountability and public service delivery in decentralized Indonesia: Incumbency advantage and the performance of second term mayors	16
“The mother of all political problems”? On asylum seekers and elections	16
Political voice on monetary policy: Evidence from the parliamentary hearings of the European Central Bank	15
Fiscal rules and budget forecast errors of Italian municipalities	15
Inclusive institutions, unequal outcomes: Democracy, state capacity, and income inequality	15

Mortgage market credit conditions and U.S. Presidential elections	14
Geopolitics and rare earth metals	14
Corporate tax competition: A meta-analysis	14
The political economy of IMF conditionality and central bank independence	14
Does government spending efficiency improve fiscal sustainability?	14
The effects of mafia infiltration on public procurement performance	14
Savings from public procurement centralization in the healthcare system	14
Women and local public finance	14
Regulation and income inequality in the United States	14
COVID-19 fatalities and internal conflict: Does government economic support matter?	13
The political economy of firm emissions: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	12
Are Democracies Cleaner?	12
The influence of political fragmentation on public enterprises: Evidence from German municipalities	11
Political influence, central bank independence and inflation in Africa: A comparative analysis	11
Race to burn the last ton of carbon and the risk of stranded assets	11
How do the factors determining terrorist groups’ longevity differ from those affecting their success?	11
Does clarity make central banks more engaging? Lessons from ECB communications	11
Investment in trade facilitating infrastructure: A political-economy analysis	11
Explaining destinations and volumes of international arms transfers: A novel network Heckman selection model	11
The political and institutional determinants of fiscal adjustments and expansions: Evidence for a large set of countries	11
Real-time fiscal policy responses in the OECD from 1997 to 2018: Procyclical but sustainable?	11
Income inequality and income bias in voter turnout	11
Unbundling the effect of political instability on income redistribution	11
Revisiting forced migration: A machine learning perspective	10
Sharing the gains of transition: Evaluating changes in income inequality and redistribution in Poland using combined survey and tax return data	10
Russian power and the state-owned enterprise	10
Fiscal consolidations and electoral outcomes in emerging economies: Does the policy mix matter? Macro and micro level evidence from Latin America	10
Perception of corruption and public support for redistribution in Latin America	9
Terrorism and international economic policy	9
The financial market impact of ECB monetary policy press conferences — A text based approach	9
Believers vs. deniers: Climate change and environmental policy polarization	9
Can internet surveys represent the entire population? A practitioners’ analysis	9
Anchored or de-anchored? That is the question	9
Attitudes towards euro area reforms: Evidence from a randomized survey experiment	9
Debt policies in the aftermath of COVID-19 — The SGP’s debt benchmark revisited	9
Trust and attitudes toward income inequality: Does individualism matter?	8
Election systems, the “beauty premium” in politics, and the beauty of dissent	8
Fear of inflation and gender representation in central banking	8
What constitutes a constitutional amendment culture?	8
Corruption and legislature size: Evidence from Brazil	8
Can judicial efficiency improve territorial attractiveness to FDI? The Italian experience	8
Depression of the deprived or eroding enthusiasm of the elites: What has shifted the support for international trade?	8
Government response to increased demand for public services: The cyclicality of government health expenditures in the OECD	8
Intragenerational deliberation and intergenerational sustainability dilemma	8
Voting under threat: Evidence from the 2020 French local elections	8
Revisiting the nexus between fiscal decentralization and government size - The role of ethnic fragmentation	8
Individualism and political instability	7
To vote, or not to vote? Electoral campaigns and the spread of COVID-19	7
A corruption risk indicator for public procurement	7
The transition of corruption institutions and dynamics	7

The political economy of productivity growth	7
Policy tolerance of economic crime? An empirical analysis of the effect of counterfeiting on Italian trade	7
Political forecast cycles	7
Politicians at higher levels of government are perceived as more corrupt	7
Turnout in concurrent elections: Evidence from two quasi-experiments in Italy	7
Political favoritism by powerful politicians: Evidence from chief ministers in India	7
Does international migration impact economic institutions at home?	7
Economic, social and political fragmentation: Linking knowledge-biased growth, identity, populism and protectionism	7
The political economy of the G20 agenda on financial regulation	6
Rara Avis: Latin American populism in the 21st century	6
Asylum recognition rates in Europe: Policies and performance	6
Why do people from wealthy countries migrate?	6
Love on the rocks: The causal effects of separatist governments in Quebec	6
Ideology and monetary policy. The role of political parties’ stances in the European Central Bank’s parliamentary hearings	6
Sharks and minnows in a shoal of words: Measuring latent ideological positions based on text mining techniques	6
Political economy of taxation, debt ceilings, and growth	6
Property rights revisited	6
On the political economy of minority rights. Three ways to manipulate a minority: Goals, rules, and border poles	6
Non-trade provisions in trade agreements and FDI	6
Are social and environmental clauses a tool for favoritism? Analysis of French public procurement contracts	6
Politics of trade protection in an autocracy: Evidence from an EU tariff liberalization in Morocco	6
Democracy favors access to credit of firms	6
The economic effects of political disintegration: Lessons from Serbia and Montenegro	6
Entrepreneurship, trust and corruption	5
Political tenure, term limits and corruption	5
The Commission and the Council Presidency in the European Union: Strategic interactions and legislative powers	5
Does democratic progress deter terrorist incidents?	5
How do electoral and voice accountability affect corruption? Experimental evidence from Egypt	5
Immigration vs. poverty: Causal impact on demand for redistribution in a survey experiment	5
Can gender quotas break the glass ceiling? Evidence from Italian municipal elections	5
Environmental regulation, political incentives, and mortality in China	5
Religion and unproductive entrepreneurship: The role of risk aversion	5
Financial returns to collecting rare political economy books	5
Economic growth, equilibrium welfare, and public goods provision with intergenerational altruism	5
Taxation with representation: Understanding natives’ attitudes to foreigners’ voting rights	5
Teachers and politics	5
Health spending in Italy: The impact of immigrants	5
Official fiscal forecasts in EU member states under the European Semester and Fiscal Compact – An empirical assessment	5
The causal effects of rule of law & property rights on fiscal capacity	5
Self-selecting candidates or compelling voters: How organized crime affects political selection	5
The generation gap in direct democracy: Age vs. cohort effects	5
Political connections and post-disaster assistance in rural Vietnam	5
Determinants of compliance with fiscal rules: Misplaced efforts or hidden motivations?	5
Delegation and the regulation of U.S. financial markets	5
Temporary partnership and subcontracting: Pre- vs. post- award outsourcing in public procurement	5
The consequences of hosting asylum seekers for citizens’ policy preferences	5
Coherence of output gaps in the euro area: The impact of the COVID-19 shock	5
The persistence of political myths and ideologies	5
Decentralization, social capital, and regional growth: The case of the Italian North-South divide	5
Do personal characteristics of councilors affect municipal budget allocation?	5