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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Taxation with representation: Understanding natives’ attitudes to foreigners’ voting rights	56
Editorial Board	44
Rewarding good political behavior: US aid, democracy, and human rights	41
Political tenure, term limits and corruption	37
Determinants of compliance with fiscal rules: Misplaced efforts or hidden motivations?	36
The political economy of firm emissions: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	34
Political connections and post-disaster assistance in rural Vietnam	29
Income, growth, and democracy looking for the main causal directions in the nexus	27
Unpleasant surprises? Elections and tax news shocks	27
The price of silence: Media competition, capture, and electoral accountability	27
Logistic hubs and support for radical-right populism: Evidence from Italy	26
Anchored or de-anchored? That is the question	25
Strategic inefficiencies and federal redistribution during uncoordinated response to pandemic waves	25
Spend on what? Insights on military spending efficiency	24
Do personal characteristics of councilors affect municipal budget allocation?	23
Don't shoot yourself in the foot! A (real-effort task) experiment on income redistribution and voting	23
Inequality aversion and government health expenditure	22
Your vote is (no) secret! How low voter density hurts anonymity and biases elections in Italy	21
Gender differences in politician persistence and incumbency advantage	20
Editorial Board	19
The political economy of lockdown: Does free media matter?	19
The COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on voter turnout	18
Regulation and income inequality in the United States	18
Reform windfall as redistribution: A survey experiment on redistributive preferences in contemporary China	17
The perceived impact of immigration on native workers’ labour market outcomes	17

Editorial Board	17
Religion and unproductive entrepreneurship: The role of risk aversion	17
Education and tolerance towards Homosexuality—Evidence from China	17
Restrictions to civil liberties in a pandemic and satisfaction with democracy	16
Perceived position on the social ladder and redistributive preferences – A survey experiment from the Kyrgyz Republic	15
Democracy favors access to credit of firms	15
When citizens legalize drugs	15
Judicial independence: Why does de facto diverge from de jure?	15
Editorial Board	14
Discretion and public procurement outcomes in Europe*	14
Geopolitical risk and stock prices	14
Political instability and economic growth: Causation and transmission	14
The effect of ethnic diversity on the participation in social groups: Evidence from trade unions	13
Black representation and the popular legitimacy of the Federal Reserve	13
Lady Justice: The impact of female judges on jury trial verdicts in North Carolina	12
Geopolitical Risks, Political Tensions and the European Economy	12
Doom loop, trilemma, and moral hazard: Which narrative of the banking union did stock market investors buy?	12
The impact of economic sanctions on bilateral mergers and acquisitions	12
The heterogeneous effects of internet voting	11
Electoral competition with fake news	11
Corruption and assortative matching of partners in international trade	11
When do more selfish politicians manipulate less, not more?	11
Clearing the smog ceiling: The impact of women’s political empowerment on air quality in European regions	10
Preference for redistribution during structural change with labor mobility frictions	10
Editorial Board	10
Rara Avis: Latin American populism in the 21st century	10
Political competition in dynamic economies	10
The consequences of CIA-sponsored regime change in Latin America	10
Stock markets and economic uncertainty: Roles of legislative sessions and coalition strength	10
Editorial Board	10
Political polarization and international cooperation	10
Chinese aid in Africa: Attitudes and conflict	10
Non-trade provisions in trade agreements and FDI	10
Bureaucracy and labor market inefficiency: A contest model	9
Farewell President! Political favoritism, economic inequality, and political polarization	9
Macroeconomic effects from media coverage of the China–U.S. trade war on selected EU countries	9
Inclusive institutions, unequal outcomes: Democracy, state capacity, and income inequality	9
The institutional impact of left-leaning populism in Latin America	9
Scarring effects of major economic downturns: The role of fiscal policy and government investment	9
Press freedom, market information, and international trade	9
Political influence, central bank independence and inflation in Africa: A comparative analysis	9
Territorial state capacity and elite violence from the 6th to the 19th century	9
Why do voters elect criminal politicians?	9
Why do (some) ordinary Americans support tax cuts for the rich? Evidence from a randomised survey experiment	9
Silver lining of the water: The role of government relief assistance in disaster recovery	8
State building and social control	8
How do recruiters assess applicants who express a political engagement?	8
Financial openness, capital rents and income inequality	8
Duration and competing-risks determinants of terrorist hostage-taking incidents	8
The transition of education a cross-country macro analysis	8

Leaders, factions and the determinants of electoral success	8
Electoral corruption cycles: Separating perceptions and experiences across households and experts	8
Too afraid to vote? The effects of COVID-19 on voting behaviour	8
Pension reform preferences in Germany: Does information matter?	8
Party selectors, voters, and the choice of productive representatives under different types of list proportional representation	8
Does a district mandate matter for the behavior of politicians? An analysis of roll-call votes and parliamentary speeches	8
Career incentives of local leaders and crisis response: A case study of COVID-19 lockdowns in China	8
Do strong oligopolies reverse Green Paradox effects?	7
Legislators in the crossfire: Strategic non-voting and the effect of transparency	7
Strategic compromise, policy bundling and interest group power: Theory and evidence on education policy	7
Rules alone won't do: Empirical evidence on sanction mechanisms of fiscal rules and political budget cycles	7
Revisiting the relationship between economic freedom and development to account for statistical deception by autocratic regimes	7
Bread and the dilemmas of socialist paternalism in Israel, 1948–1977	7
Social mobility and political stability	7
Fear of inflation and gender representation in central banking	7
Wage bargaining structure and political budget cycles: A policy game approach	7
Dominance and technology war	7
Identity, social media and online political activism	7
Why do people from wealthy countries migrate?	7
Gloomy future, gloomy sky: Promotion incentives and pollution in China	7
Self-selecting candidates or compelling voters: How organized crime affects political selection	7
Bias and careers: Evidence from the aid effectiveness literature	7
Does international migration impact economic institutions at home?	7
Financial returns to collecting rare political economy books	7
An unconsidered leave? Inequality aversion and the brexit referendum	7
Does inter-municipal cooperation reduce the intensity of tax competition? Evidence on inter-local industrial parks in Germany	7
Debt policies in the aftermath of COVID-19 — The SGP’s debt benchmark revisited	6
Local connectivity and corruption: Micro evidence from China	6
Upstream effects of female political reservations	6
Breaking the silence: The effects of online social movements on gender-based violence	6
Tax liability side equivalence and time delayed externalities	6
Non-random selection into entrepreneurship in the realm of government decentralization and corruption	6
Social media networks, fake news, and polarization	6
Decentralization, social capital, and regional growth: The case of the Italian North-South divide	6
The effect of international development association's (IDA) aid on conflict. A fuzzy regression discontinuity approach	6
Editorial Board	6
The consequences of hosting asylum seekers for citizens’ policy preferences	6
Editorial Board	6
Transitive delegation in social networks: Theory and experiment	6
Economic freedom and the greenhouse gas Kuznets curve	6
Does government spending efficiency improve fiscal sustainability?	6
Editorial Board	6
Islamist terrorism and the status of women	6
Beyond the party push: Gender differences in voters’ persuasion	6
Consequences of Thailand’s 2006 military coup: Evidence from the synthetic control method	6
The grass is always greener on the other side: (Unfair) inequality and support for democracy	6
Regime change and critical junctures	6
Globalization and fiscal policy after financial crises	6
Immigration vs. poverty: Causal impact on demand for redistribution in a survey experiment	6