OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of Law and Economics is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Pretrial detention and conviction	26
The impact of institutionalized representation: creditors' committees and the resolution of corporate liquidation bankruptcies	19
Stay or flee? Hit-and-run accidents, darkness and probability of punishment	17
Severance payments: main effects and determinants on the labour market	15
Property rights on unused assets and investment incentives: evidence from Brazil	14
Carrots, sticks, and environmental crime in Italy	14
Group causation theories and deterrence of tortious acts	13
Data portability and interoperability: An E.U.-U.S. comparison	12
Product liability for defective AI	12
Introduction to the special issue on the importance of Simple Rules for a Complex World	11
To comply, or not to comply: the question is why	11
In practice or just on paper? Some insights on using alphabetical rule to assign judges to cases	10
Correction: Dismissal regulation and hiring and dismissal decisions: a decisive factor? the case of the French labor market reforms	9
Seller liability versus platform liability: optimal liability rule and law enforcement in the platform economy	9
Assessment of formal proceedings and out-of-court reorganisation: results from a survey among turnaround professionals in Austria	7
Minimum wage non-compliance: the role of co-determination	6
Forerunners vs. latecomers—institutional competition in the German federalism during the COVID crisis	6
Law and economics, and the labour market: a comprehensive research agenda	6
Do target-country legal institutions affect cross-border mergers and acquisitions? A quantitative literature survey	6
Controlling for fixed effects in studies of income underreporting	6
The impact of law on moral and social norms: evidence from facemask fines in the UK	6
The economics of platform liability	6
Do child support guidelines result in lower inter-judge disparity? The case of the French advisory child support guidelines	5
You go first!: coordination problems and the burden of proof in inquisitorial prosecution	5
Reluctance to report criminal incidents: limited access to justice, social exclusion, and gender	5

The anti-steering provision of Article 5 (4) of the DMA: a law and economics assessment on the business model of gatekeepers and business users	4
Legal form affects the performance of a company	4
Several liability with sequential care: an experiment	3
Dismissal regulation and hiring and dismissal decisions: a decisive factor? the case of the French labor market reforms	3
Litigation and settlement under loss aversion	3
Time efficiency as a measure of court performance: evidence from the Court of Justice of the European Union	3
Postbellum electoral politics in California and the genesis of the Chinese exclusion act of 1882	3
The regulation of repugnant goods and the limits of the Alchian–Allen effect	3
Credible plea bargaining with the Jury’s rational conviction decision	3
Plea bargaining and investigation effort: inquisitorial criminal procedure as a three-player game	3
A systematic content analysis of innovation in European competition law	2
Regulatory sandboxes and innovation hubs for FinTech: experiences of the Baltic states	2
Before the hammer falls: an empirical analysis of the market reaction to art thefts	2
Firms’ legality and efficiency: evidence from public procurement	2
The auditing game: the dark side of the private provision of a public good	2
Damages for infringements of competition law	2
Law and economics of minority-language policy	2
Efficiency analysis of penitentiary centers in Spain using radial and non-radial DEA and its determinants factors 2015–2020	2
Abusive contract terms: Is unenforceability a deterrent sanction?	2
Innovating safely: how public policies can prevent regrettable substitutions	2
Contingent fees and endogenous timing in litigation contests	2
Entrepreneurship during a pandemic	2
Disagreeing in private or dissenting in public: an empirical exploration of possible motivations	2
Market power and journalistic quality	2
Correction: The link between board characteristics and EU competition law infringements	2
Net neutrality and high-speed broadband networks: evidence from OECD countries	1
Inefficient incentives for energy saving in tenancy law and policy options to remedy the landlord-tenant dilemma	1
Fake & original: the case of Japanese food in Southeast Asian countries	1
Motor Vehicle Registration Taxes (MVRT) across EU countries: MNEs’ profitability and the role of market concentration	1
The adverse effect of trial duration on the use of plea bargaining and penal orders in Italy	1
Do presumptions of negligence incentivize optimal precautions?	1
Strict liability, scarce generic input and duopoly competition	1
Cartels, board gender composition and gender quotas	1
The effects of market size, wealth, and network effects on digital piracy and profit	1
Correction to: Social capital and the problem of opportunistic leadership: the example of Koreans in Japan	1
The link between board characteristics and EU competition law infringements	1
The judicial response to rent controls in Europe: Protecting property rights against state’s intervention?	1
Industrial data sharing and data readiness: a law and economics perspective	1
Data portability and competition: Can data portability increase both consumer surplus and profits?	1
A numerus clausus rationale for the privity of contract: the protective function	1
Personality aspects of tax compliance	1
Settlements in corporate bribery cases: an illusion of choice?	1
Market entrance, patents, and preliminary injunctions: a model of pharmaceutical patent litigation	1
The effects of audit firm rotations and retentions: an event study in Chile	1
Spontaneous institutions: a typology	1
The German Facebook case: the law and economics of the relationship between competition and data protection law	1
Intellectual property and fourth industrial revolution technologies: how the patent system is shaping the future in the data-driven economy	1
Does legal freedom satisfy?	1
Money laundering and AML regulatory and judicial system regimes: investigation of FinCEN files	1
Does rigidity matter? Constitutional entrenchment and growth	1

Capitation taxes and the regulation of professional services	1
Premature repayment of fixed interest mortgage loans without compensation, a case of misguided consumer protection in the EU	1
On the sociology of cartels	1
The law and economics of indigenous and ethnic minorities: introduction	1
How to improve consumers’ understanding of online legal information: insights from a behavioral experiment	1
Priming ideology II: presidential elections increasingly affect U.S. judges	1
Accounting practitioners and small business clients’ tax compliance: evidence from the survey of Serbian accountants	1