OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Political Economy is 20. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-06-01 to 2023-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Foreign direct investment, economic freedom and growth: new evidence from Latin America	404
The effects of fiscal policy in Italy: Evidence from a VAR model	219
Do domestic firms learn to export from multinationals?	211
FDI from the south: The role of institutional distance and natural resources	146
The determinants of tax morale in comparative perspective: Evidence from European countries	134
The effect of economic freedom on growth revisited: New evidence on causality from a panel of countries 1970–1999	129
Public finances and long-term growth in Europe: Evidence from a panel data analysis	114
On the consistency and effectiveness of central bank communication: Evidence from the ECB	106
Voter involvement, fiscal autonomy and public sector efficiency: Evidence from German municipalities	105
Political corruption, public procurement, and budget composition: Theory and evidence from OECD countries	104
Corruption and economic growth: New empirical evidence	103
Who voted for Brexit? Individual and regional data combined	100
Democracy and growth: Evidence from a machine learning indicator	87
Is there any link between legal central bank independence and inflation? Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean	84
Tax-spending policies and economic growth: Theoretical predictions and evidence from the OECD	77
From royal to parliamentary rule without revolution: The economics of constitutional exchange within divided governments	73
Stock markets and terrorist attacks: Comparative evidence from a large and a small capitalization market	68
Term limits and political budget cycles at the local level: evidence from a young democracy	65
The impact of economic sanctions on international trade: How do threatened sanctions compare with imposed sanctions?	63
Strong politicians, small deficits: evidence from Norwegian local governments	63
Bribery environments and firm performance: Evidence from CEE countries	57
Gender and climate change: Do female parliamentarians make difference?	56
Does corruption slow down innovation? Evidence from a cointegrated panel of U.S. states	53
Lessons from the European economic and financial great crisis: A survey	52
Do mergers of large local governments reduce expenditures? – Evidence from Germany using the synthetic control method	50

Prospects of upward mobility and preferences for redistribution: Evidence from the Life in Transition Survey	48
Job reallocation and productivity growth in a post-socialist economy: Evidence from Slovenian manufacturing	46
Politics and the stock market: Evidence from Germany	46
Morality, institutions and the wealth of nations: Some lessons from ancient Greece	45
The demand for health: results from new measures of health capital	44
Is there a role for macroeconomic policy in fostering structural reforms? Panel evidence from OECD countries over the past two decades	43
Perceptions and attitudes following a terrorist shock: Evidence from the UK	41
Choosing the size of the public sector under rent seeking from state coffers	41
Voting on social security: Evidence from OECD countries	41
Illegal trade in the Iranian economy: Evidence from a structural model	41
Competition as a coordination device: Experimental evidence from a minimum effort coordination game	40
Does corruption hinder investment? Evidence from Russian regions	38
Revisiting the redistribution hypothesis with perceived inequality and redistributive preferences	37
Bailouts in a fiscal federal system: Evidence from Spain	36
Outside earnings, absence, and activity: Evidence from German parliamentarians	34
Political environment and foreign direct investment: Evidence from OECD countries	33
The subversive nature of inequality: Subjective inequality perceptions and attitudes to social inequality	33
Just hire your spouse! Evidence from a political scandal in Bavaria	32
Lessons from the macroeconomic experience of Sweden	32
Deficit sustainability and inflation in EMU: An analysis from the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level	30
Revenue decentralization, central oversight and the political budget cycle: Evidence from Israel	28
Independent fiscal councils: Recent trends and performance	28
The geography of natural resources, ethnic inequality and civil conflicts	27
Do politicians reward core supporters? Evidence from a discretionary grant program	27
Local representation and strategic voting: Evidence from electoral boundary reforms	27
Bureaucratic competition and public corruption: Evidence from transition countries	26
Organized crime and electoral outcomes. Evidence from Sicily at the turn of the XXI century	26
What triggers reforms in OECD countries? Improved reform measurement and evidence from the healthcare sector	26
Corruption and economic activity: Micro level evidence from rural Liberia	25
Fiscal rules to tame the political budget cycle: Evidence from Italian municipalities	25
Coalition governments, cabinet size, and the common pool problem: Evidence from the German states	25
Do politicians shirk when reelection is certain? Evidence from the German parliament	25
Local funds and political competition: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India	24
IMF conditionality and central bank independence	24
The retreat of the state from entrepreneurial activities: A convergence analysis for OECD countries, 1980–2007	23
How the left prospers from prosperity	23
The impact of gender quotas on electoral participation: Evidence from Italian municipalities	23
How quorum rules distort referendum outcomes: Evidence from a pivotal voter model	23
Macroeconomic stabilization, monetary-fiscal interactions, and Europe's monetary union	22
Globalization and taxation: Theory and evidence	22
Incentive effects of fiscal rules on the finance minister's behavior: Evidence from revenue projections in Swiss Cantons	22
Fiscal decentralization and government size: The role of democracy	21
The transition from socialism: An overview from a political economy perspective	21
Local financial development, socio-institutional environment, and firm productivity: Evidence from Italy	21
Tax competition and income sorting: Evidence from the Zurich metropolitan area	20
The social capital legacy of communism-results from the Berlin Wall experiment	20