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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
(The Struggle for) Refugee integration into the labour market: evidence from Europe	47
Housing supply elasticity and growth: evidence from Italian cities	41
Immigration and preferences for redistribution in Europe	37
Does the fossil fuel divestment movement impact new oil and gas fundraising?	36
The urbanising force of global warming: the role of climate change in the spatial distribution of population	32
Local sectoral specialization in a warming world	29
Impact of air pollution on short-term movements: evidence from air travels in China	27
Putting the case for a pluralistic economic geography	25
Institutions and the productivity challenge for European regions	25
How do house prices respond to mortgage supply?	24
The urban–rural education gap: do cities indeed make us smarter?	23
Do new housing units in your backyard raise your rents?	17
Tales of the city: what do agglomeration cases tell us about agglomeration in general?	17
Crowdfunding in a not-so-flat world	17
Migration and invention in the Age of Mass Migration	16
Technological knowledge spaces and the resilience of European regions	16
Liability or opportunity? Reconceptualizing the periphery and its role in innovation	15
Historical industrialisation, path dependence and contemporary culture: the lasting imprint of economic heritage on local communities	14
Left-behind versus unequal places: interpersonal inequality, economic decline and the rise of populism in the USA and Europe	13
Immigrant diversity, integration and worker productivity: uncovering the mechanisms behind ‘diversity spillover’ effects	13
Colonial legacies: Shaping African cities	13
Does foreign investment hurt job creation at home? The geography of outward FDI and employment in the USA	12
Multinational enterprises, industrial relatedness and employment in European regions	12
How do firms in co-located clusters interact? Evidence from Greater Montreal	12
The Singaporean natural gas hub: reassembling global production networks and markets in Asia	10

The congestion relief benefit of public transit: evidence from Rome	10
Hurricanes, flood risk and the economic adaptation of businesses	10
The effects of highway tolls on private business activity—results from a natural experiment	10
Congestion in highways when tolls and railroads matter: evidence from European cities	9
An urban labor market with frictional housing markets: theory and an application to the Paris urban area	9
Automobiles and urban density	9
What does the state do in China’s state-led infrastructure financialisation?	9
The unintended consequences of increasing returns to scale in geographical economics	8
The (fuzzy) digital divide: the effect of universal broadband on firm performance	8
Brexit and the discursive construction of the corporation	8
Impasse or mutation? Austerity and (de)financialisation of local governments in Britain	8
Path dependency, regional variety and the dynamics of new firm creation in rooted and pioneering industries	8
Police trust and domestic violence among immigrants: evidence from VAWA self-petitions	8
Road capacity, domestic trade and regional outcomes	7
The ties that bind and transform: knowledge remittances, relatedness and the direction of technical change	7
Human capital portability and international student migration	7
Border effects in European public procurement	7
Can foundational economy save regions in crisis?	7
Rival guests or defiant hosts? The local economic impact of hosting refugees	6
To be connected or not to be connected? The role of long-haul economies	6
Accident externality of driving: evidence from the London Congestion Charge	6
Who with whom? Untangling the effect of high-skilled immigration on innovation*	6
The long-term impact of Italian colonial roads in the Horn of Africa, 1935–2015	6
The price of distance: pricing-to-market and geographic barriers	5
Analyzing industrial policy regimes within global production networks: the Ethiopian leather industry	5
Medium-run local economic effects of a major earthquake	5
Exposure to OFDI and regional labour markets: evidence for routine and non-routine jobs in Great Britain	5
Cycles of regional innovative growth	5
The impacts of refugee repatriation on receiving communities	5
Do border effects alter regional development: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	5
Limits of buyer-driven governance for sustainability: inherent challenges of fragmented supplier networks	5
Spillovers and strategic interaction in immigration policies	5
The billion pound drop: the Blitz and agglomeration economies in London	4
Financialization, securitization and the decline of pubs in Britain	4
Local labor markets and the persistence of population shocks: evidence from West Germany, 1939–1970	4
Weather shocks and migration intentions in Western Africa: insights from a multilevel analysis	4
Local border reforms and economic activity	4
To move or not to move? Immigration and natives’ neighborhood choices in Seoul, Korea	3
Do preferences for urban amenities differ by skill?	3
The ‘China Shock’ revisited: insights from value added trade flows	3
Who stays and who leaves? Immigration and the selection of natives across locations	3
The persistence of apartheid regional wage disparities in South Africa	3
Moving to opportunity? The geography of the foreclosure crisis and the importance of location	3
Ancient colonialism and the economic geography of the Mediterranean	3
National elections, sub-national growth: the politics of Turkey’s provincial economic dynamics under AKP rule	3
Illicit innovation and institutional folding: From purity to naturalness in the Bavarian brewing industry	3
Global value chains, private governance and multiple end-markets: insights from Kenyan leather	3
The end of the great inversion: offshore national banks and the global financial crisis	3
The role of community–private sector partnerships in the diffusion of environmental innovation: renewable energy in Southern Israel	3
Specialization versus competition: an anatomy of increasing returns to scale	3

Matching global service standards—the role of intermediaries in economic upgrading of support-service firms in global production networks	2
Killer citiesandindustrious cities? New data and evidence on 250 years of urban growth	2
Multinational production and investment provisions in preferential trade agreements	2
Immigration history, entry jobs and the labor market integration of immigrants	2
Wage variations and commuting distance	2
How to enter high-opportunity places? The role of social contacts for residential mobility	2
International knowledge spillovers	2
State de-financialisation through incorporating local government bonds in the budgetary process in China	2
Institutional work: how lenders transform land titles into collateral in urban Tanzania	2
Stars as catalysts: an event-study analysis of the impact of star-scientist recruitment on local research performance in a small open economy	2
On the economic geography of climate change	2
South–south migration and female labor supply in the Dominican Republic	2
Commuting time and the gender gap in labor market participation	2
Not welcome anymore: the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees	2
Financial centre primacy around the world: international analysis based on mergers and acquisitions data	2
Community development with externalities and corrective taxation	2
Frontier workers and the seedbeds of inequality and prosperity	2
Bridge to bigpush or backwash? Market integration, reallocation and productivity effects of Jamuna Bridge in Bangladesh	2
Technological diversification of U.S. cities during the great historical crises	2