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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Rules without morals: modeling Buchanan’s relatively absolute absolutes	30
The impact of institutionalized representation: creditors' committees and the resolution of corporate liquidation bankruptcies	30
Severance payments: main effects and determinants on the labour market	20
Stay or flee? Hit-and-run accidents, darkness and probability of punishment	18
Carrots, sticks, and environmental crime in Italy	16
Group causation theories and deterrence of tortious acts	12
Property rights on unused assets and investment incentives: evidence from Brazil	12
Constitutional monarchy and long-run economic growth: friends or foes?	8
Seller liability versus platform liability: optimal liability rule and law enforcement in the platform economy	7
Correction: Dismissal regulation and hiring and dismissal decisions: a decisive factor? the case of the French labor market reforms	7
Product liability for defective AI	7
To comply, or not to comply: the question is why	7
Data portability and interoperability: An E.U.-U.S. comparison	7
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
Assessment of formal proceedings and out-of-court reorganisation: results from a survey among turnaround professionals in Austria	6
Do target-country legal institutions affect cross-border mergers and acquisitions? A quantitative literature survey	5
Minimum wage non-compliance: the role of co-determination	5
The green transition and competition in public procurement	5
Do child support guidelines result in lower inter-judge disparity? The case of the French advisory child support guidelines	5
Law and economics, and the labour market: a comprehensive research agenda	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
Forerunners vs. latecomers—institutional competition in the German federalism during the COVID crisis	4
Reluctance to report criminal incidents: limited access to justice, social exclusion, and gender	4
Legal form affects the performance of a company	4

Credible plea bargaining with the Jury’s rational conviction decision	3
Is the Mafia responsible for technological backwardness in Sicily? An analysis from unification of the Italian Kingdom in 1861 to 1913	3
Postbellum electoral politics in California and the genesis of the Chinese exclusion act of 1882	3
Litigation and settlement under loss aversion	3
Dismissal regulation and hiring and dismissal decisions: a decisive factor? the case of the French labor market reforms	3
The regulation of repugnant goods and the limits of the Alchian–Allen effect	3
Regulatory sandboxes and innovation hubs for FinTech: experiences of the Baltic states	3
Before the hammer falls: an empirical analysis of the market reaction to art thefts	3
Law and economics of minority-language policy	3
You go first!: coordination problems and the burden of proof in inquisitorial prosecution	3
A systematic content analysis of innovation in European competition law	3
Plea bargaining and investigation effort: inquisitorial criminal procedure as a three-player game	3
Correction: The link between board characteristics and EU competition law infringements	2
Capitation taxes and the regulation of professional services	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
Cartels, board gender composition and gender quotas	2
The Covid-19 vaccine passports: a failure of policy	2
Regulatory delays and patent term erosion in medical device innovation: a two-market analysis of EU and US frameworks	2
Is there a European law and economics? A reflection on identity, method, and national traditions	2
The auditing game: the dark side of the private provision of a public good	2
Efficiency analysis of penitentiary centers in Spain using radial and non-radial DEA and its determinants factors 2015–2020	2
Industrial data sharing and data readiness: a law and economics perspective	2
Data portability and competition: Can data portability increase both consumer surplus and profits?	2
The law and economics of indigenous and ethnic minorities: introduction	2
Net neutrality and high-speed broadband networks: evidence from OECD countries	2
Did the merger strategy towards optimal scale go too far? The case of Swedish district courts	2
Decentralization, politics and political legislation cycles: a test on Italian regions	2
Firms’ legality and efficiency: evidence from public procurement	2
Innovating safely: how public policies can prevent regrettable substitutions	2
The adverse effect of trial duration on the use of plea bargaining and penal orders in Italy	2
Inefficient incentives for energy saving in tenancy law and policy options to remedy the landlord-tenant dilemma	2
The judicial response to rent controls in Europe: Protecting property rights against state’s intervention?	2
On the sociology of cartels	2
Personality aspects of tax compliance	2
Spontaneous institutions: a typology	1
The link between board characteristics and EU competition law infringements	1
Does legal freedom satisfy?	1
The effects of market size, wealth, and network effects on digital piracy and profit	1
The effects of audit firm rotations and retentions: an event study in Chile	1
Settlement growth and military conflict in early colonial New England 1620–1700	1
Priming ideology II: presidential elections increasingly affect U.S. judges	1
How to improve consumers’ understanding of online legal information: insights from a behavioral experiment	1
Accounting practitioners and small business clients’ tax compliance: evidence from the survey of Serbian accountants	1
Divorce law reforms and house prices in Europe	1
A hybrid legislative model for the sex market: policy and fiscal insights	1
Law, human capital, and the emergence of free city-states in medieval Italy	1
Intellectual property and fourth industrial revolution technologies: how the patent system is shaping the future in the data-driven economy	1
The limits of hierarchy in the digital platform era; or, the phenomenon of inverted principal-agency	1
Punishing terrorists in the Spanish Supreme Court: has ideology played any role?	1

Does commercial court organisation affect firms’ bankruptcy rate? evidence from the french judicial reform	1
Harmonising cryptocurrency regulation in Europe: opportunities for preventing illicit transactions	1
Does criminalizing the purchase of sex reduce sex-buying? Evidence from a European survey on prostitution	1