OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Political Economy is 7. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	103
Stock returns of federal reserve officials	99
Unpleasant surprises? Elections and tax news shocks	97
Income, growth, and democracy looking for the main causal directions in the nexus	88
Determinants of compliance with fiscal rules: Misplaced efforts or hidden motivations?	58
Spend on what? Insights on military spending efficiency	54
The political economy of firm emissions: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	52
Political competition, party structure and economic growth: Theory and evidence from Indian states	44
Political tenure, term limits and corruption	37
Geopolitical spillover: The Russia–Ukraine invasion and its effects on money market funds	35
Editorial Board	34
Logistic hubs and support for radical-right populism: Evidence from Italy	34
Your vote is (no) secret! How low voter density hurts anonymity and biases elections in Italy	33
Inequality aversion and government health expenditure	27
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	23
The political economy of lockdown: Does free media matter?	22
Restrictions to civil liberties in a pandemic and satisfaction with democracy	22
Term limits and corruption: Evidence from U.S. states	21
Discretion and public procurement outcomes in Europe*	21
When citizens legalize drugs	20
Editorial Board	19
Hawks and Doves: Financial market perception of Western support for Ukraine	18
Editorial Board	18
Judicial independence: Why does de facto diverge from de jure?	18

Education and tolerance towards Homosexuality—Evidence from China	17
Buy when there’s blood in the streets: How geopolitical adverse events can push defense stock returns to the extreme	17
Political connections and participation in global value chains: Evidence from MENA firms	16
The perceived impact of immigration on native workers’ labour market outcomes	16
Democracy favors access to credit of firms	16
Perceived position on the social ladder and redistributive preferences – A survey experiment from the Kyrgyz Republic	16
Editorial Board	15
Preference for redistribution during structural change with labor mobility frictions	15
Black representation and the popular legitimacy of the Federal Reserve	15
Political instability and economic growth: Causation and transmission	15
Geopolitical risk and stock prices	15
Doom loop, trilemma, and moral hazard: Which narrative of the banking union did stock market investors buy?	15
Reform windfall as redistribution: A survey experiment on redistributive preferences in contemporary China	15
Lady Justice: The impact of female judges on jury trial verdicts in North Carolina	15
Chinese aid in Africa: Attitudes and conflict	14
Stock markets and economic uncertainty: Roles of legislative sessions and coalition strength	14
Political competition in dynamic economies	14
Political polarization and international cooperation	14
Threshold of shadows: Unveiling organised crime in Italian municipal public procurement	14
Clearing the smog ceiling: The impact of women’s political empowerment on air quality in European regions	14
Geopolitical Risks, Political Tensions and the European Economy	14
When do more selfish politicians manipulate less, not more?	14
Electoral competition with fake news	14
Corruption and assortative matching of partners in international trade	14
The effect of ethnic diversity on the participation in social groups: Evidence from trade unions	14
The impact of economic sanctions on bilateral mergers and acquisitions	13
Editorial Board	13
Scarring effects of major economic downturns: The role of fiscal policy and government investment	13
The heterogeneous effects of internet voting	13
Farewell President! Political favoritism, economic inequality, and political polarization	13
Macroeconomic effects from media coverage of the China–U.S. trade war on selected EU countries	13
The institutional impact of left-leaning populism in Latin America	13
The consequences of CIA-sponsored regime change in Latin America	13
Editorial Board	13
Why do voters elect criminal politicians?	13
Why do (some) ordinary Americans support tax cuts for the rich? Evidence from a randomised survey experiment	13
Press freedom, market information, and international trade	12
Decomposing migration drivers: Push-pull effects of political, financial, and socioeconomic institutions versus network effects in OECD migration	12
Non-trade provisions in trade agreements and FDI	12
Trading budget deficits for public investment: Optimal deficit rules for present-biased governments	12
Bureaucracy and labor market inefficiency: A contest model	12
Externality, ideology and sphere of influence	12
State building and social control	12
Pension reform preferences in Germany: Does information matter?	11
Electoral corruption cycles: Separating perceptions and experiences across households and experts	11
Dominance and technology war	11
Silver lining of the water: The role of government relief assistance in disaster recovery	11
How do recruiters assess applicants who express a political engagement?	11
Leaders, factions and the determinants of electoral success	11
The transition of education a cross-country macro analysis	11

Party selectors, voters, and the choice of productive representatives under different types of list proportional representation	11
Rules alone won't do: Empirical evidence on sanction mechanisms of fiscal rules and political budget cycles	11
Flooding the vote: Heterogeneous voting responses to a natural disaster in Germany	11
Career incentives of local leaders and crisis response: A case study of COVID-19 lockdowns in China	10
Physical vs. institutional public goods provision: Evidence from China	10
Strategic compromise, policy bundling and interest group power: Theory and evidence on education policy	10
Social mobility and political stability	10
Identity, social media and online political activism	10
Getting it right: Communication, voting, and collective truth finding	10
Corrupt reserve prices	10
Bread and the dilemmas of socialist paternalism in Israel, 1948–1977	10
An unconsidered leave? Inequality aversion and the brexit referendum	10
Do strong oligopolies reverse Green Paradox effects?	10
Does inter-municipal cooperation reduce the intensity of tax competition? Evidence on inter-local industrial parks in Germany	10
Gloomy future, gloomy sky: Promotion incentives and pollution in China	10
Beyond the party push: Gender differences in voters’ persuasion	9
Wage bargaining structure and political budget cycles: A policy game approach	9
Revisiting the relationship between economic freedom and development to account for statistical deception by autocratic regimes	9
Local connectivity and corruption: Micro evidence from China	9
The effect of international development association's (IDA) aid on conflict. A fuzzy regression discontinuity approach	9
Fear of inflation and gender representation in central banking	9
Crafting compliance – The role of inclusion and participation in constitution-making	9
Legislators in the crossfire: Strategic non-voting and the effect of transparency	9
Fiscal federalism and Cohesion Policy in the European Union NUTS-2 regions	9
Political budget cycles in federal systems: The case of India	9
Editorial Board	9
Editorial Board	8
Decentralization, social capital, and regional growth: The case of the Italian North-South divide	8
Islamist terrorism and the status of women	8
Transitive delegation in social networks: Theory and experiment	8
Is local opposition taking the wind out of the energy transition?	8
Distance matters: Geographical proximity and fiscal rules enforcement	8
Social media networks, fake news, and polarization	8
Immigration vs. poverty: Causal impact on demand for redistribution in a survey experiment	8
Debt policies in the aftermath of COVID-19 — The SGP’s debt benchmark revisited	8
Consequences of Thailand’s 2006 military coup: Evidence from the synthetic control method	8
Legislative populism, ideological alignment, and human freedom	8
Editorial Board	8
Does government spending efficiency improve fiscal sustainability?	8
Government size, economic freedom, and homicide rates: A cross-National analysis of 74 countries	8
The “German Vote” and its consequences: (Un)reliable parties in multilateral bargaining under private information	8
Economic freedom and the greenhouse gas Kuznets curve	8
Decoding discourse: Gendered heckling in German Bundestag debates (1949–2021)	8
Googling ‘inflation’: Household inflation attention across the euro area	8
Breaking the silence: The effects of online social movements on gender-based violence	7
Effects of council size under a majority bonus: Evidence from French municipalities	7
Governments manipulate official Statistics: Institutions matter	7
Part-time parliamentarians? Evidence from outside earnings and parliamentary activities	7
The grass is always greener on the other side: (Unfair) inequality and support for democracy	7
Measuring partisan media bias in US newscasts from 2001 to 2012	7
Transition to broader-based politics: The role of suffrage extension in early 20th century Japan	7
OECD pension reform: The role of demographic trends and the business cycle	7
Non-random selection into entrepreneurship in the realm of government decentralization and corruption	7
Avoiding distraction: Newsworthy events and the strategic timing of public policies	7
Choosing not to lead: Monetary incentives and political selection in local parliamentary systems	7
Globalization and fiscal policy after financial crises	7
Defending election victory by attacking company revenues: The impact of elections on the international defense industry	7
The 2015 refugee inflow and concerns over immigration	7
Consistent flexibility: Enforcement of deficit rules through political incentives	7
Short-term rental bans and the hotel industry: Evidence from New York city	7
Assessing the joint risks of fiscal crises and climate change	7
Regime change and critical junctures	7
Are the supporters of socialism the losers of capitalism? Conformism in East Germany and transition success	7