OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Economic Perspectives 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Front Matter	323
Occupational Licensing in the United States	319
Migration and Innovation: Learning from Patent and Inventor Data	244
Economic Markets and Pharmaceutical Innovation	223
Popular Personal Financial Advice versus the Professors	180
Credit, Debt-Deflation, and the Great Depression Revisited	150
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and Economic Research	146
Recommendations for Further Reading	145
Physician Competition: Entry and Substitution	142
US Corporate Bond Markets: Bigger and (Maybe) Better?	136
Why Did the Best Prepared Country in the World Fare So Poorly during COVID?	89
The Failure of Silicon Valley Bank and the Panic of 2023	75
COVID-19, School Closures, and Outcomes	73
Financial Sanctions, SWIFT, and the Architecture of the International Payment System	73
Front Matter	72
Early Career Paths of Economists Inside and Outside of Academia	69
Retrospectives: W. E. B. Du Bois, Harvard Economics, and Marginalist Wage Theory	68
Global Labor Mobility between Shrinking and Growing Labor Forces	64
Blending Theory and Data: A Space Odyssey	64
How Regional Inequality and Migration Drive Housing Prices and Rents	61
Building Costs and House Prices	60
How Economists Could Help Inform Economic and Budget Analysis Used by the US Congress	54
Recommendations for Further Reading	53
How Can Lower-Income Countries Collect More Taxes? The Role of Technology, Tax Agents, and Politics	53
The Changing Firm and Country Boundaries of US Manufacturers in Global Value Chains	49

Designing Simple Mechanisms	49
Front Matter	48
From Asia, with Skills	46
Industrial Policy: Lessons from Shipbuilding	46
The Current Era of Health Care Consolidation	46
Front Matter	43
Government Data of the People, by the People, for the People: Navigating Citizen Privacy Concerns	42
Export-Led Industrial Policy for Developing Countries: Is There a Way to Pick Winners?	38
Overreaction and Diagnostic Expectations in Macroeconomics	37
Semiconductors and Modern Industrial Policy	37
Changes in the Distribution of Black and White Wealth since the US Civil War	36
Seeking the “Missing Women” of Economics with the Undergraduate Women in Economics Challenge	34
Family Institutions and the Global Fertility Transition	34
Administrative Burdens in the Social Safety Net	34
The Economics of Generic Drug Shortages: The Limits of Competition	33
Evaluating Behavioral Incentive Compatibility: Insights from Experiments	32
Front Matter	32
Why Is the Fragmented Municipal Bond Market So Costly to Investors and Issuers?	32
Emerging Market Sovereign Debt in the Aftermath of the Pandemic	31
Retrospectives: Margaret Reid, Chicago, and Permanent Income	31
Curbing Rising Housing Costs: A Model-Based Policy Comparison	31
The Economics of Noncompete Clauses	29
What Went Wrong with Federal Student Loans?	29
Front Matter	28
Regulated Competition in Health Insurance Markets on Two Sides of the Atlantic	26
The Prices in the Crises: What We Are Learning from 20 Years of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	26
Sovereign Debt and Fiscal Integration in the European Union	25
What Can Historically Black Colleges and Universities Teach about Improving Higher Education Outcomes for Black Students?	24
Sweeping Changes and an Uncertain Legacy: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017	24
Danish Flexicurity: Rights and Duties	23
The World Bank’s East Asian Miracle : Too Much a Product of Its Time?	23
Front Matter	22
Front Matter	22
Skilled Immigrants, Firms, and the Global Geography of Innovation	22
On the Economics of Extinction and Possible Mass Extinctions	22
Are Opportunity Zones an Effective Place-Based Policy?	22
Behavioral Incentive Compatibility and Empirically Informed Welfare Analysis: An Introductory Guide	22
How US Treasuries Can Remain the World’s Safe Haven	20
China’s Lending to Developing Countries: From Boom to Bust	20
Recommendations for Further Reading	19
Recommendations for Further Reading	19
Protecting Antiquities: A Role for Long-Term Leases?	18
Lessons for the United States from Pharmaceutical Regulation Abroad	18
Measuring Human Capital	17
America’s Continuing Struggle with Mental Illnesses: Economic Considerations	17
Front Matter	16
Recommendations for Further Reading	16
The 2023 Merger Guidelines and the Arc of Antitrust History	13
Carbon Border Adjustments, Climate Clubs, and Subsidy Races When Climate Policies Vary	13
Anticompetitive Contracts Between Insurers and Providers in Health Care	13

Recommendations for Further Reading	13
Basel Endgame: Bank Capital Requirements and the Future of International Standard Setting	13
Facts and Fantasies about Wage Setting and Collective Bargaining	12
Compensating Wage Differentials in Labor Markets: Empirical Challenges and Applications	11
Measuring Income and Income Inequality	11
Is Pay Transparency Good?	10
Debt Revenue and the Sustainability of Public Debt	9
The Economics of Electricity Reliability	9
Recommendations for Further Reading	9
A Linear Panel Model with Heterogeneous Coefficients and Variation in Exposure	9
The Importance of Financial Literacy: Opening a New Field	9
Four Facts about Human Capital	9
Retrospectives: Friedman and Schwartz, Disaggregated	8
Retrospectives: Yair Mundlak and the Fixed Effects Estimator	7
Did Welfare Reform End the Safety Net as We Knew It? The Record since 1996	7
Why Do Retired Households Draw Down Their Wealth So Slowly?	7
Front Matter	7
Is There Any Future for a US Labor Movement?	6
Acquisitions to Enter New Markets	6
Are Developed Countries Outsourcing Pollution?	6
Recommendations for Further Reading	6
Public Finance Implications of Economic Inequality	6
Global Transportation Decarbonization	6
Quantitative Urban Models: From Theory to Data	6
Retrospectives: Sadie T.M. Alexander: Black Women and a “Taste of Freedom in the Economic World”	6
Unraveling the Hispanic Health Paradox	6
The US Individual Income Tax: Recent Evolution and Evidence	6
Intangible Capital and Modern Economies	6