OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Economic Geography is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
(The Struggle for) Refugee integration into the labour market: evidence from Europe	73
Housing supply elasticity and growth: evidence from Italian cities	59
Immigration and preferences for redistribution in Europe	53
Does the fossil fuel divestment movement impact new oil and gas fundraising?	44
The urbanising force of global warming: the role of climate change in the spatial distribution of population	38
Institutions and the productivity challenge for European regions	37
Local sectoral specialization in a warming world	35
Putting the case for a pluralistic economic geography	29
The urban–rural education gap: do cities indeed make us smarter?	28
Left-behind versus unequal places: interpersonal inequality, economic decline and the rise of populism in the USA and Europe	27
Liability or opportunity? Reconceptualizing the periphery and its role in innovation	27
Technological knowledge spaces and the resilience of European regions	24
Migration and invention in the Age of Mass Migration	23
Colonial legacies: Shaping African cities	22
Do new housing units in your backyard raise your rents?	21
Hurricanes, flood risk and the economic adaptation of businesses	18
Historical industrialisation, path dependence and contemporary culture: the lasting imprint of economic heritage on local communities	17
Immigrant diversity, integration and worker productivity: uncovering the mechanisms behind ‘diversity spillover’ effects	16
Does foreign investment hurt job creation at home? The geography of outward FDI and employment in the USA	15
What does the state do in China’s state-led infrastructure financialisation?	15
Automobiles and urban density	14
The (fuzzy) digital divide: the effect of universal broadband on firm performance	14
Can foundational economy save regions in crisis?	13
Congestion in highways when tolls and railroads matter: evidence from European cities	13
How do firms in co-located clusters interact? Evidence from Greater Montreal	13

Impasse or mutation? Austerity and (de)financialisation of local governments in Britain	12
The unintended consequences of increasing returns to scale in geographical economics	12
Road capacity, domestic trade and regional outcomes	11
The congestion relief benefit of public transit: evidence from Rome	11
Path dependency, regional variety and the dynamics of new firm creation in rooted and pioneering industries	10
The ties that bind and transform: knowledge remittances, relatedness and the direction of technical change	9
Local border reforms and economic activity	9
The long-term impact of Italian colonial roads in the Horn of Africa, 1935–2015	9
Police trust and domestic violence among immigrants: evidence from VAWA self-petitions	9
Commuting time and the gender gap in labor market participation	9
Weather shocks and migration intentions in Western Africa: insights from a multilevel analysis	9
Brexit and the discursive construction of the corporation	9
Medium-run local economic effects of a major earthquake	8
To be connected or not to be connected? The role of long-haul economies	8
The billion pound drop: the Blitz and agglomeration economies in London	8
Rethinking resource enclavity in developing countries: Embedding Global Production Networks in gold mining regions	7
Spillovers and strategic interaction in immigration policies	7
Rival guests or defiant hosts? The local economic impact of hosting refugees	7
Limits of buyer-driven governance for sustainability: inherent challenges of fragmented supplier networks	7
Do border effects alter regional development: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	7
Who with whom? Untangling the effect of high-skilled immigration on innovation*	7
The ‘China Shock’ revisited: insights from value added trade flows	6
Exposure to OFDI and regional labour markets: evidence for routine and non-routine jobs in Great Britain	6
Illicit innovation and institutional folding: From purity to naturalness in the Bavarian brewing industry	6
Stars as catalysts: an event-study analysis of the impact of star-scientist recruitment on local research performance in a small open economy	6
National elections, sub-national growth: the politics of Turkey’s provincial economic dynamics under AKP rule	6
Immigration history, entry jobs and the labor market integration of immigrants	6
Accident externality of driving: evidence from the London Congestion Charge	6
International knowledge spillovers	6
State de-financialisation through incorporating local government bonds in the budgetary process in China	5
Frontier workers and the seedbeds of inequality and prosperity	5
Do preferences for urban amenities differ by skill?	5
The role of community–private sector partnerships in the diffusion of environmental innovation: renewable energy in Southern Israel	5
Multinational production and investment provisions in preferential trade agreements	5
Global value chains, private governance and multiple end-markets: insights from Kenyan leather	5
The price of distance: pricing-to-market and geographic barriers	5
Analyzing industrial policy regimes within global production networks: the Ethiopian leather industry	5
Cycles of regional innovative growth	5
The Zoom city: working from home, urban productivity and land use	4
Institutional work: how lenders transform land titles into collateral in urban Tanzania	4
The persistence of apartheid regional wage disparities in South Africa	4
Technological diversification of U.S. cities during the great historical crises	4
Close competitors? Bilateral bank competition and spatial variation in firms’ access to credit	4
Not welcome anymore: the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees	4
Moving to opportunity? The geography of the foreclosure crisis and the importance of location	4
Urban wage premia, cost of living, and collective bargaining	4
Boosting, sorting and complexity—urban scaling of innovation around the world	4
Who stays and who leaves? Immigration and the selection of natives across locations	4
Financialization, securitization and the decline of pubs in Britain	4
Bridge to bigpush or backwash? Market integration, reallocation and productivity effects of Jamuna Bridge in Bangladesh	4

To move or not to move? Immigration and natives’ neighborhood choices in Seoul, Korea	4
Ancient colonialism and the economic geography of the Mediterranean	4
How to enter high-opportunity places? The role of social contacts for residential mobility	3
International family migration and the dual-earner model	3
The long-term effects of mass layoffs: do local economies (ever) recover?	3
Impact of a guaranteed minimum income program on rural–urban migration in China	3
The end of the great inversion: offshore national banks and the global financial crisis	3
Leveraging the digital layer: the strength of weak and strong ties in bridging geographic and cognitive distances	3
On the economic geography of climate change	3
Crime-time: how ambient light affects crime	3
Agglomeration effects in a developing economy: evidence from Turkey	3
Wage variations and commuting distance	3
Austerity urbanism, local government debt-drive, and post COVID predicaments in Britain	2
Natural disasters, risk and migration: evidence from the 2017 Pohang earthquake in Korea	2
Capital shocks and the great urban divide	2
‘Manufacturers without factories’ and economic development in the Global South: India’s pharmaceutical firms	2
Making markets ‘decisive’: a firm-level evaluation of state-led development in the China–Myanmar border region	2
Financial centre primacy around the world: international analysis based on mergers and acquisitions data	2
South–south migration and female labor supply in the Dominican Republic	2
A world divided: refugee centers, house prices and household preferences	2
The nature, causes, and consequences of inter-regional inequality	2
Matching global service standards—the role of intermediaries in economic upgrading of support-service firms in global production networks	2
Congestion and scheduling preferences of car commuters in California: estimates using big data	2
Are richer neighborhoods always better for the kids?	2
How do financialised agri-corporate investors acquire farmland? Analysing land investment in an Australian agricultural region, 2004–2019	2
International knowledge connectivity and the increasing concentration of innovation in major global cities	2
Populist resentments and identities and their repercussions on firms and regions. The example of East Thuringia	2
Quantifying land-use regulation and its determinants	2
Community development with externalities and corrective taxation	2
Fertility implications of family-based regularizations	2
Do highway widenings reduce congestion?	2
Killer citiesandindustrious cities? New data and evidence on 250 years of urban growth	2
Geographies of dissociation: informality, ethical codes and fragmented labour regimes in the Sri Lankan apparel industry	2