OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Economic Perspectives is 36. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Credit, Debt-Deflation, and the Great Depression Revisited	276
Migration and Innovation: Learning from Patent and Inventor Data	266
Front Matter	209
Popular Personal Financial Advice versus the Professors	200
Economic Markets and Pharmaceutical Innovation	158
American Enslavement and the Recovery of Black Economic History	136
Occupational Licensing in the United States	134
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and Economic Research	131
Recommendations for Further Reading	116
The Failure of Silicon Valley Bank and the Panic of 2023	107
Why Did the Best Prepared Country in the World Fare So Poorly during COVID?	92
COVID-19, School Closures, and Outcomes	82
US Corporate Bond Markets: Bigger and (Maybe) Better?	69
Financial Sanctions, SWIFT, and the Architecture of the International Payment System	67
Blending Theory and Data: A Space Odyssey	66
Front Matter	66
Global Labor Mobility between Shrinking and Growing Labor Forces	64
Retrospectives: W. E. B. Du Bois, Harvard Economics, and Marginalist Wage Theory	59
How Regional Inequality and Migration Drive Housing Prices and Rents	58
Early Career Paths of Economists Inside and Outside of Academia	58
Building Costs and House Prices	56
How Economists Could Help Inform Economic and Budget Analysis Used by the US Congress	54
Children and the US Social Safety Net: Balancing Disincentives for Adults and Benefits for Children	51
How Can Lower-Income Countries Collect More Taxes? The Role of Technology, Tax Agents, and Politics	50
Recommendations for Further Reading	48

Designing Simple Mechanisms	48
Front Matter	46
From Asia, with Skills	46
The Changing Firm and Country Boundaries of US Manufacturers in Global Value Chains	45
Industrial Policy: Lessons from Shipbuilding	43
Front Matter	42
Export-Led Industrial Policy for Developing Countries: Is There a Way to Pick Winners?	41
Government Data of the People, by the People, for the People: Navigating Citizen Privacy Concerns	39
Overreaction and Diagnostic Expectations in Macroeconomics	37
Changes in the Distribution of Black and White Wealth since the US Civil War	37
Semiconductors and Modern Industrial Policy	37
The Economics of Generic Drug Shortages: The Limits of Competition	36