OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Economic Perspectives is 23. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Front Matter	291
Credit, Debt-Deflation, and the Great Depression Revisited	282
Economic Markets and Pharmaceutical Innovation	216
Occupational Licensing in the United States	205
Popular Personal Financial Advice versus the Professors	163
Migration and Innovation: Learning from Patent and Inventor Data	143
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and Economic Research	135
Recommendations for Further Reading	135
Physician Competition: Entry and Substitution	123
COVID-19, School Closures, and Outcomes	121
US Corporate Bond Markets: Bigger and (Maybe) Better?	82
Why Did the Best Prepared Country in the World Fare So Poorly during COVID?	70
The Failure of Silicon Valley Bank and the Panic of 2023	69
Financial Sanctions, SWIFT, and the Architecture of the International Payment System	68
Front Matter	65
Blending Theory and Data: A Space Odyssey	61
Global Labor Mobility between Shrinking and Growing Labor Forces	61
Retrospectives: W. E. B. Du Bois, Harvard Economics, and Marginalist Wage Theory	60
Early Career Paths of Economists Inside and Outside of Academia	57
How Economists Could Help Inform Economic and Budget Analysis Used by the US Congress	57
Building Costs and House Prices	56
How Can Lower-Income Countries Collect More Taxes? The Role of Technology, Tax Agents, and Politics	50
Recommendations for Further Reading	48
How Regional Inequality and Migration Drive Housing Prices and Rents	48
Designing Simple Mechanisms	46

Front Matter	45
The Current Era of Health Care Consolidation	43
From Asia, with Skills	43
Industrial Policy: Lessons from Shipbuilding	40
The Changing Firm and Country Boundaries of US Manufacturers in Global Value Chains	39
Front Matter	38
Government Data of the People, by the People, for the People: Navigating Citizen Privacy Concerns	38
Overreaction and Diagnostic Expectations in Macroeconomics	34
Semiconductors and Modern Industrial Policy	33
Export-Led Industrial Policy for Developing Countries: Is There a Way to Pick Winners?	32
Changes in the Distribution of Black and White Wealth since the US Civil War	32
The Economics of Generic Drug Shortages: The Limits of Competition	31
Family Institutions and the Global Fertility Transition	31
Seeking the “Missing Women” of Economics with the Undergraduate Women in Economics Challenge	31
Front Matter	30
Administrative Burdens in the Social Safety Net	30
What Went Wrong with Federal Student Loans?	29
The Economics of Noncompete Clauses	28
Retrospectives: Margaret Reid, Chicago, and Permanent Income	28
Why Is the Fragmented Municipal Bond Market So Costly to Investors and Issuers?	28
Curbing Rising Housing Costs: A Model-Based Policy Comparison	27
Emerging Market Sovereign Debt in the Aftermath of the Pandemic	27
Evaluating Behavioral Incentive Compatibility: Insights from Experiments	26
Front Matter	26
Regulated Competition in Health Insurance Markets on Two Sides of the Atlantic	25
Sweeping Changes and an Uncertain Legacy: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017	23
Sovereign Debt and Fiscal Integration in the European Union	23