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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Perceptions of inequality	38
Perception vs. experience: Explaining differences in corruption measures using microdata	38
Too afraid to vote? The effects of COVID-19 on voting behaviour	34
Entrepreneurship, fear of failure, and economic policy	31
Vertical fiscal imbalance and local fiscal indiscipline: Empirical evidence from China	28
Natural disasters and electoral outcomes	27
Public opinion on immigration in Europe: Preference and salience	26
Social media networks, fake news, and polarization	25
The COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on voter turnout	25
Politically connected firms and privileged access to credit: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe	23
Do unhappy citizens vote for populism?	22
Geopolitics and rare earth metals	21
Low-wage import competition and populist backlash: The case of Italy	21
Trust in the ECB: Drivers and consequences	21
Tax evasion and tax morale: A social network analysis	19
Do fiscal rules need budget transparency to be effective?	19
Political voice on monetary policy: Evidence from the parliamentary hearings of the European Central Bank	19
Do the ECB's introductory statements help predict monetary policy? Evidence from a tone analysis	18
Using Machine Learning for measuring democracy: A practitioners guide and a new updated dataset for 186 countries from 1919 to 2019	18
Exposure to corruption and political participation: Evidence from Italian municipalities	17
Foreign aid and the quality of economic institutions	17
“The mother of all political problems”? On asylum seekers and elections	17
The political economy of IMF conditionality and central bank independence	16
Women and local public finance	15
Inclusive institutions, unequal outcomes: Democracy, state capacity, and income inequality	15

Regulation and income inequality in the United States	15
Savings from public procurement centralization in the healthcare system	15
Unbundling the effect of political instability on income redistribution	14
Does clarity make central banks more engaging? Lessons from ECB communications	14
Corporate tax competition: A meta-analysis	14
Does government spending efficiency improve fiscal sustainability?	14
The political economy of firm emissions: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	14
Political influence, central bank independence and inflation in Africa: A comparative analysis	13
COVID-19 fatalities and internal conflict: Does government economic support matter?	13
Income inequality and income bias in voter turnout	13
Explaining destinations and volumes of international arms transfers: A novel network Heckman selection model	13
Real-time fiscal policy responses in the OECD from 1997 to 2018: Procyclical but sustainable?	12
Investment in trade facilitating infrastructure: A political-economy analysis	11
Sharing the gains of transition: Evaluating changes in income inequality and redistribution in Poland using combined survey and tax return data	11
Russian power and the state-owned enterprise	11
Can internet surveys represent the entire population? A practitioners’ analysis	11
Anchored or de-anchored? That is the question	11
The influence of political fragmentation on public enterprises: Evidence from German municipalities	11
How do the factors determining terrorist groups’ longevity differ from those affecting their success?	11
Perception of corruption and public support for redistribution in Latin America	10
Intragenerational deliberation and intergenerational sustainability dilemma	10
Fear of inflation and gender representation in central banking	10
Revisiting forced migration: A machine learning perspective	10
Attitudes towards euro area reforms: Evidence from a randomized survey experiment	10
Trust and attitudes toward income inequality: Does individualism matter?	10
Terrorism and international economic policy	10
The financial market impact of ECB monetary policy press conferences — A text based approach	10
Believers vs. deniers: Climate change and environmental policy polarization	9
Political forecast cycles	9
Individualism and political instability	9
Political favoritism by powerful politicians: Evidence from chief ministers in India	9
Debt policies in the aftermath of COVID-19 — The SGP’s debt benchmark revisited	9
Politicians at higher levels of government are perceived as more corrupt	9
The political economy of productivity growth	9
Corruption and legislature size: Evidence from Brazil	9
Voting under threat: Evidence from the 2020 French local elections	9
Government response to increased demand for public services: The cyclicality of government health expenditures in the OECD	9
Turnout in concurrent elections: Evidence from two quasi-experiments in Italy	8
Investing in friends: The role of geopolitical alignment in FDI flows	8
Can judicial efficiency improve territorial attractiveness to FDI? The Italian experience	8
To vote, or not to vote? Electoral campaigns and the spread of COVID-19	8
Non-trade provisions in trade agreements and FDI	8
Does international migration impact economic institutions at home?	8
What constitutes a constitutional amendment culture?	8
A corruption risk indicator for public procurement	8
Revisiting the nexus between fiscal decentralization and government size - The role of ethnic fragmentation	8
Political budget cycles revisited: Testing the signalling process	7
Political tenure, term limits and corruption	7
Ideology and monetary policy. The role of political parties’ stances in the European Central Bank’s parliamentary hearings	7
Decentralization, social capital, and regional growth: The case of the Italian North-South divide	7

The economic effects of political disintegration: Lessons from Serbia and Montenegro	7
Policy tolerance of economic crime? An empirical analysis of the effect of counterfeiting on Italian trade	7
The transition of corruption institutions and dynamics	7
Economic, social and political fragmentation: Linking knowledge-biased growth, identity, populism and protectionism	7
Sharks and minnows in a shoal of words: Measuring latent ideological positions based on text mining techniques	6
Political alignment, centralisation, and the sense of government unpreparedness during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Can gender quotas break the glass ceiling? Evidence from Italian municipal elections	6
Political economy of taxation, debt ceilings, and growth	6
Determinants of compliance with fiscal rules: Misplaced efforts or hidden motivations?	6
The political economy of the G20 agenda on financial regulation	6
Democracy favors access to credit of firms	6
Are social and environmental clauses a tool for favoritism? Analysis of French public procurement contracts	6
Religion and unproductive entrepreneurship: The role of risk aversion	6
Love on the rocks: The causal effects of separatist governments in Quebec	6
Why do people from wealthy countries migrate?	6
Rara Avis: Latin American populism in the 21st century	6
Entrepreneurship, trust and corruption	6
Asylum recognition rates in Europe: Policies and performance	6
Environmental regulation, political incentives, and mortality in China	6
Economic growth, equilibrium welfare, and public goods provision with intergenerational altruism	6
Temporary partnership and subcontracting: Pre- vs. post- award outsourcing in public procurement	5
Does democratic progress deter terrorist incidents?	5
Health spending in Italy: The impact of immigrants	5
How economic expectations shape preferences for national independence: Evidence from Greenland	5
Special issue: Central banking in the 21st century - A crisis of accountability?	5
Self-selecting candidates or compelling voters: How organized crime affects political selection	5
Financial returns to collecting rare political economy books	5
The Commission and the Council Presidency in the European Union: Strategic interactions and legislative powers	5
The 2020 US Presidential election and Trump’s wars on trade and health insurance	5
Electoral competition with fake news	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
Official fiscal forecasts in EU member states under the European Semester and Fiscal Compact – An empirical assessment	5
The generation gap in direct democracy: Age vs. cohort effects	5
Delegation and the regulation of U.S. financial markets	5
Taxation with representation: Understanding natives’ attitudes to foreigners’ voting rights	5
Monetary policy decision-making by committee: Why, when and how it can work	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
The causal effects of rule of law & property rights on fiscal capacity	5
Politics of trade protection in an autocracy: Evidence from an EU tariff liberalization in Morocco	5
Do personal characteristics of councilors affect municipal budget allocation?	5
Birthplace favoritism and the distribution of budget amendments in Brazil: Evidence from nondistrict elections	5
Political connections and post-disaster assistance in rural Vietnam	5