OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Economic Perspectives is 25. 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Front Matter	306
Credit, Debt-Deflation, and the Great Depression Revisited	304
Occupational Licensing in the United States	229
Popular Personal Financial Advice versus the Professors	215
Migration and Innovation: Learning from Patent and Inventor Data	174
Economic Markets and Pharmaceutical Innovation	147
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and Economic Research	141
Recommendations for Further Reading	138
Physician Competition: Entry and Substitution	135
Financial Sanctions, SWIFT, and the Architecture of the International Payment System	130
US Corporate Bond Markets: Bigger and (Maybe) Better?	87
Why Did the Best Prepared Country in the World Fare So Poorly during COVID?	73
The Failure of Silicon Valley Bank and the Panic of 2023	72
COVID-19, School Closures, and Outcomes	72
Front Matter	70
Retrospectives: W. E. B. Du Bois, Harvard Economics, and Marginalist Wage Theory	65
Early Career Paths of Economists Inside and Outside of Academia	65
Global Labor Mobility between Shrinking and Growing Labor Forces	62
Blending Theory and Data: A Space Odyssey	62
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
How Can Lower-Income Countries Collect More Taxes? The Role of Technology, Tax Agents, and Politics	51
Designing Simple Mechanisms	49
Recommendations for Further Reading	49

Front Matter	46
The Changing Firm and Country Boundaries of US Manufacturers in Global Value Chains	46
From Asia, with Skills	43
Industrial Policy: Lessons from Shipbuilding	43
The Current Era of Health Care Consolidation	43
Front Matter	42
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?	36
Changes in the Distribution of Black and White Wealth since the US Civil War	36
Semiconductors and Modern Industrial Policy	35
Overreaction and Diagnostic Expectations in Macroeconomics	34
Family Institutions and the Global Fertility Transition	33
Seeking the “Missing Women” of Economics with the Undergraduate Women in Economics Challenge	33
Administrative Burdens in the Social Safety Net	32
The Economics of Generic Drug Shortages: The Limits of Competition	32
Retrospectives: Margaret Reid, Chicago, and Permanent Income	31
Evaluating Behavioral Incentive Compatibility: Insights from Experiments	31
Front Matter	31
The Economics of Noncompete Clauses	30
Curbing Rising Housing Costs: A Model-Based Policy Comparison	29
Emerging Market Sovereign Debt in the Aftermath of the Pandemic	29
What Went Wrong with Federal Student Loans?	28
Front Matter	27
Why Is the Fragmented Municipal Bond Market So Costly to Investors and Issuers?	27
The Prices in the Crises: What We Are Learning from 20 Years of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	26
Regulated Competition in Health Insurance Markets on Two Sides of the Atlantic	25