OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Political Economy is 6. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Income, growth, and democracy looking for the main causal directions in the nexus	63
Rewarding good political behavior: US aid, democracy, and human rights	56
Taxation with representation: Understanding natives’ attitudes to foreigners’ voting rights	47
Determinants of compliance with fiscal rules: Misplaced efforts or hidden motivations?	42
Editorial Board	41
Spend on what? Insights on military spending efficiency	38
Political connections and post-disaster assistance in rural Vietnam	30
Editorial Board	29
Geopolitical spillover: The Russia–Ukraine invasion and its effects on money market funds	29
Logistic hubs and support for radical-right populism: Evidence from Italy	28
Unpleasant surprises? Elections and tax news shocks	28
Political tenure, term limits and corruption	27
The political economy of firm emissions: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	26
Editorial Board	25
Do personal characteristics of councilors affect municipal budget allocation?	24
Inequality aversion and government health expenditure	24
Gender differences in politician persistence and incumbency advantage	24
Don't shoot yourself in the foot! A (real-effort task) experiment on income redistribution and voting	24
The political economy of lockdown: Does free media matter?	22
The COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on voter turnout	22
Religion and unproductive entrepreneurship: The role of risk aversion	20
Your vote is (no) secret! How low voter density hurts anonymity and biases elections in Italy	19
The perceived impact of immigration on native workers’ labour market outcomes	18
Regulation and income inequality in the United States	18
Education and tolerance towards Homosexuality—Evidence from China	17

Hawks and Doves: Financial market perception of Western support for Ukraine	17
Reform windfall as redistribution: A survey experiment on redistributive preferences in contemporary China	16
When citizens legalize drugs	16
Perceived position on the social ladder and redistributive preferences – A survey experiment from the Kyrgyz Republic	16
Political connections and participation in global value chains: Evidence from MENA firms	16
Judicial independence: Why does de facto diverge from de jure?	15
Discretion and public procurement outcomes in Europe*	15
Restrictions to civil liberties in a pandemic and satisfaction with democracy	14
Editorial Board	14
Lady Justice: The impact of female judges on jury trial verdicts in North Carolina	13
Political instability and economic growth: Causation and transmission	13
Doom loop, trilemma, and moral hazard: Which narrative of the banking union did stock market investors buy?	13
Democracy favors access to credit of firms	13
Editorial Board	13
Geopolitical risk and stock prices	13
The impact of economic sanctions on bilateral mergers and acquisitions	12
Geopolitical Risks, Political Tensions and the European Economy	12
Black representation and the popular legitimacy of the Federal Reserve	12
Political competition in dynamic economies	11
The heterogeneous effects of internet voting	11
The consequences of CIA-sponsored regime change in Latin America	11
The effect of ethnic diversity on the participation in social groups: Evidence from trade unions	11
Electoral competition with fake news	11
Rara Avis: Latin American populism in the 21st century	11
Stock markets and economic uncertainty: Roles of legislative sessions and coalition strength	11
Editorial Board	10
When do more selfish politicians manipulate less, not more?	10
Bureaucracy and labor market inefficiency: A contest model	10
Editorial Board	10
Scarring effects of major economic downturns: The role of fiscal policy and government investment	10
Macroeconomic effects from media coverage of the China–U.S. trade war on selected EU countries	10
Corruption and assortative matching of partners in international trade	10
Preference for redistribution during structural change with labor mobility frictions	10
Territorial state capacity and elite violence from the 6th to the 19th century	10
Inclusive institutions, unequal outcomes: Democracy, state capacity, and income inequality	10
Farewell President! Political favoritism, economic inequality, and political polarization	10
Chinese aid in Africa: Attitudes and conflict	10
Clearing the smog ceiling: The impact of women’s political empowerment on air quality in European regions	10
Political polarization and international cooperation	10
Why do voters elect criminal politicians?	10
Why do (some) ordinary Americans support tax cuts for the rich? Evidence from a randomised survey experiment	10
Pension reform preferences in Germany: Does information matter?	9
Electoral corruption cycles: Separating perceptions and experiences across households and experts	9
Leaders, factions and the determinants of electoral success	9
Non-trade provisions in trade agreements and FDI	9
Silver lining of the water: The role of government relief assistance in disaster recovery	9
Does a district mandate matter for the behavior of politicians? An analysis of roll-call votes and parliamentary speeches	9
Flooding the vote: Heterogeneous voting responses to a natural disaster in Germany	9
Career incentives of local leaders and crisis response: A case study of COVID-19 lockdowns in China	9
Press freedom, market information, and international trade	9

State building and social control	9
Duration and competing-risks determinants of terrorist hostage-taking incidents	9
Party selectors, voters, and the choice of productive representatives under different types of list proportional representation	9
How do recruiters assess applicants who express a political engagement?	9
Rules alone won't do: Empirical evidence on sanction mechanisms of fiscal rules and political budget cycles	9
The institutional impact of left-leaning populism in Latin America	9
The transition of education a cross-country macro analysis	9
Financial openness, capital rents and income inequality	8
Does inter-municipal cooperation reduce the intensity of tax competition? Evidence on inter-local industrial parks in Germany	8
Wage bargaining structure and political budget cycles: A policy game approach	8
Why do people from wealthy countries migrate?	8
Dominance and technology war	8
Self-selecting candidates or compelling voters: How organized crime affects political selection	8
Social mobility and political stability	8
An unconsidered leave? Inequality aversion and the brexit referendum	8
Revisiting the relationship between economic freedom and development to account for statistical deception by autocratic regimes	8
Identity, social media and online political activism	8
Bread and the dilemmas of socialist paternalism in Israel, 1948–1977	8
Do strong oligopolies reverse Green Paradox effects?	8
Islamist terrorism and the status of women	7
The effect of international development association's (IDA) aid on conflict. A fuzzy regression discontinuity approach	7
Transitive delegation in social networks: Theory and experiment	7
Financial returns to collecting rare political economy books	7
Gloomy future, gloomy sky: Promotion incentives and pollution in China	7
Debt policies in the aftermath of COVID-19 — The SGP’s debt benchmark revisited	7
Legislators in the crossfire: Strategic non-voting and the effect of transparency	7
Decentralization, social capital, and regional growth: The case of the Italian North-South divide	7
Economic freedom and the greenhouse gas Kuznets curve	7
Editorial Board	7
Strategic compromise, policy bundling and interest group power: Theory and evidence on education policy	7
Beyond the party push: Gender differences in voters’ persuasion	7
Local connectivity and corruption: Micro evidence from China	7
Immigration vs. poverty: Causal impact on demand for redistribution in a survey experiment	7
Social media networks, fake news, and polarization	7
Bias and careers: Evidence from the aid effectiveness literature	7
Fear of inflation and gender representation in central banking	7
Fiscal federalism and Cohesion Policy in the European Union NUTS-2 regions	7
Does government spending efficiency improve fiscal sustainability?	7
The grass is always greener on the other side: (Unfair) inequality and support for democracy	6
Googling ‘inflation’: Household inflation attention across the euro area	6
The “German Vote” and its consequences: (Un)reliable parties in multilateral bargaining under private information	6
Household expectations and dissent among policymakers	6
Electoral democracy, corruption, and tax evasion	6
Political voice on monetary policy: Evidence from the parliamentary hearings of the European Central Bank	6
Part-time parliamentarians? Evidence from outside earnings and parliamentary activities	6
The consequences of hosting asylum seekers for citizens’ policy preferences	6
Transition to broader-based politics: The role of suffrage extension in early 20th century Japan	6
Can women's performance in elections determine the engagement of adolescent girls in politics?	6
Breaking the silence: The effects of online social movements on gender-based violence	6
Upstream effects of female political reservations	6
Consequences of Thailand’s 2006 military coup: Evidence from the synthetic control method	6
Regime change and critical junctures	6
Are the supporters of socialism the losers of capitalism? Conformism in East Germany and transition success	6
Revisiting forced migration: A machine learning perspective	6
Measuring partisan media bias in US newscasts from 2001 to 2012	6
Tax liability side equivalence and time delayed externalities	6
Short-term rental bans and the hotel industry: Evidence from New York city	6
Governments manipulate official Statistics: Institutions matter	6
Editorial Board	6
Choosing not to lead: Monetary incentives and political selection in local parliamentary systems	6
Editorial Board	6
Non-random selection into entrepreneurship in the realm of government decentralization and corruption	6
Pro-growth inefficiency: Rents and moral hazard in infrastructure contests in China	6
Defending election victory by attacking company revenues: The impact of elections on the international defense industry	6
The 2015 refugee inflow and concerns over immigration	6
Consistent flexibility: Enforcement of deficit rules through political incentives	6
OECD pension reform: The role of demographic trends and the business cycle	6
Globalization and fiscal policy after financial crises	6