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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The impact of institutionalized representation: creditors' committees and the resolution of corporate liquidation bankruptcies	24
Stay or flee? Hit-and-run accidents, darkness and probability of punishment	23
Severance payments: main effects and determinants on the labour market	20
Rules without morals: modeling Buchanan’s relatively absolute absolutes	18
Carrots, sticks, and environmental crime in Italy	17
Property rights on unused assets and investment incentives: evidence from Brazil	16
Group causation theories and deterrence of tortious acts	12
Data portability and interoperability: An E.U.-U.S. comparison	10
Constitutional monarchy and long-run economic growth: friends or foes?	10
Product liability for defective AI	8
Seller liability versus platform liability: optimal liability rule and law enforcement in the platform economy	7
Assessment of formal proceedings and out-of-court reorganisation: results from a survey among turnaround professionals in Austria	6
Correction: Dismissal regulation and hiring and dismissal decisions: a decisive factor? the case of the French labor market reforms	6
Controlling for fixed effects in studies of income underreporting	6
To comply, or not to comply: the question is why	6
The impact of law on moral and social norms: evidence from facemask fines in the UK	6
Minimum wage non-compliance: the role of co-determination	5
Do child support guidelines result in lower inter-judge disparity? The case of the French advisory child support guidelines	5
Reluctance to report criminal incidents: limited access to justice, social exclusion, and gender	5
Law and economics, and the labour market: a comprehensive research agenda	5
You go first!: coordination problems and the burden of proof in inquisitorial prosecution	5
Do target-country legal institutions affect cross-border mergers and acquisitions? A quantitative literature survey	5
Legal form affects the performance of a company	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
Dismissal regulation and hiring and dismissal decisions: a decisive factor? the case of the French labor market reforms	4

Forerunners vs. latecomers—institutional competition in the German federalism during the COVID crisis	4
Credible plea bargaining with the Jury’s rational conviction decision	4
Postbellum electoral politics in California and the genesis of the Chinese exclusion act of 1882	3
Contingent fees and endogenous timing in litigation contests	3
Litigation and settlement under loss aversion	3
Plea bargaining and investigation effort: inquisitorial criminal procedure as a three-player game	3
The regulation of repugnant goods and the limits of the Alchian–Allen effect	3
Law and economics of minority-language policy	3
Several liability with sequential care: an experiment	3
A systematic content analysis of innovation in European competition law	3
Regulatory sandboxes and innovation hubs for FinTech: experiences of the Baltic states	3
Efficiency analysis of penitentiary centers in Spain using radial and non-radial DEA and its determinants factors 2015–2020	2
The auditing game: the dark side of the private provision of a public good	2
Personality aspects of tax compliance	2
Capitation taxes and the regulation of professional services	2
Data portability and competition: Can data portability increase both consumer surplus and profits?	2
Regulatory delays and patent term erosion in medical device innovation: a two-market analysis of EU and US frameworks	2
Decentralization, politics and political legislation cycles: a test on Italian regions	2
Correction: The link between board characteristics and EU competition law infringements	2
Innovating safely: how public policies can prevent regrettable substitutions	2
On the sociology of cartels	2
Motor Vehicle Registration Taxes (MVRT) across EU countries: MNEs’ profitability and the role of market concentration	2
Money laundering and AML regulatory and judicial system regimes: investigation of FinCEN files	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
A numerus clausus rationale for the privity of contract: the protective function	2
Is there a European law and economics? A reflection on identity, method, and national traditions	2
The adverse effect of trial duration on the use of plea bargaining and penal orders in Italy	2
Fake & original: the case of Japanese food in Southeast Asian countries	2
On Coase and COVID-19	1
The limits of hierarchy in the digital platform era; or, the phenomenon of inverted principal-agency	1
The link between board characteristics and EU competition law infringements	1
The law and economics of indigenous and ethnic minorities: introduction	1
Inefficient incentives for energy saving in tenancy law and policy options to remedy the landlord-tenant dilemma	1
The effects of market size, wealth, and network effects on digital piracy and profit	1
Law and economics in Italy: an overview	1
Settlement growth and military conflict in early colonial New England 1620–1700	1
Does criminalizing the purchase of sex reduce sex-buying? Evidence from a European survey on prostitution	1
Does commercial court organisation affect firms’ bankruptcy rate? evidence from the french judicial reform	1
Does legal freedom satisfy?	1
Spontaneous institutions: a typology	1
The Covid-19 vaccine passports: a failure of policy	1
Cartels, board gender composition and gender quotas	1
Intellectual property and fourth industrial revolution technologies: how the patent system is shaping the future in the data-driven economy	1
How to improve consumers’ understanding of online legal information: insights from a behavioral experiment	1
The German Law and Economics Association and the evolution of European Law and Economics	1
Law, human capital, and the emergence of free city-states in medieval Italy	1
A hybrid legislative model for the sex market: policy and fiscal insights	1
Divorce law reforms and house prices in Europe	1
Accounting practitioners and small business clients’ tax compliance: evidence from the survey of Serbian accountants	1

Priming ideology II: presidential elections increasingly affect U.S. judges	1
Industrial data sharing and data readiness: a law and economics perspective	1
The judicial response to rent controls in Europe: Protecting property rights against state’s intervention?	1
Net neutrality and high-speed broadband networks: evidence from OECD countries	1
Punishing terrorists in the Spanish Supreme Court: has ideology played any role?	1
Counting offenders’ gains? Economic and moral considerations in the determination of criminality	1
Harmonising cryptocurrency regulation in Europe: opportunities for preventing illicit transactions	1
The effects of audit firm rotations and retentions: an event study in Chile	1