OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of the European Economic Association is 4. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Managing Relational Contracts	137
Transfer Payment Systems and Financial Distress: Insights from Health Insurance Premium Subsidies	69
Strategic Fertility, Education Choices, and Conflicts in Deeply Divided Societies	68
Talents and Cultures: Immigrant Inventors and Ethnic Diversity in the Age of Mass Migration	64
Regulatory Interventions in Consumer Financial Markets: The Case of Credit Cards	62
Intergovernmental Conflict and Censorship: Evidence from China’s Anti-Corruption Campaign	54
The Return of Greenspan: Mumbling with Great Incoherence	49
Housing Insecurity and Homelessness: Evidence from the United Kingdom	46
The Impact of NGO-Provided Aid on Government Capacity: Evidence from Uganda	45
Habit Formation and the Misallocation of Labor: Evidence from Forced Migrations	45
Inattention Matters: An Analysis of Consumers’ Inaction in Choosing a Water Tariff	42
Using Preference Estimates to Customize Incentives: An Application to Polio Vaccination Drives in Pakistan	36
Workers’ Bargaining Power and the Phillips Curve: A Micro–Macro Analysis	34
Hard-to-Interpret Signals	34
Global Externalities, Local Policies, and Firm Selection	33
Downside and Upside Uncertainty Shocks	32
Dissecting Idiosyncratic Earnings Risk	31
Preventing Violence in the Most Violent Contexts: Behavioral and Neurophysiological Evidence from El Salvador	28
Imperfect Competition in Firm-to-Firm Trade	27
False Narratives and Political Mobilization	27
Maternal Mortality and Women’s Political Power	26
Do Police Maximize Arrests or Minimize Crime? Evidence from Racial Profiling in U.S. Cities	25
Limited Nominal Indexation of Optimal Financial Contracts	25
Information Nudges, Subsidies, and Crowding Out of Attention: Field Evidence from Energy Efficiency Investments	24
The Effect of Asset Encumbrance on Bank Behavior: Evidence from the Introduction of Covered Bonds in Norway	24

Personality Traits and Cognitive Ability in Political Selection	23
Firm Expectations and Economic Activity	22
Social Conflict and the Evolution of Unequal Conventions	19
Learning About One’s Self	19
Das House Kapital: A Long-Run Theory of House Prices and Housing Wealth	19
Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation	19
Mass Migration and Technological Change	18
The persistent effect of competition on prosociality	18
Welfare Analysis of Regulations on Media Platform Advertising	18
Regulating Platform Fees	16
Productivity and the Welfare of Nations	16
Examining Income Expectations in the College and Early Post-College Periods: New Distributional Tests of Rational Expectations	16
Do Research Joint Ventures Serve a Collusive Function?	16
Marshall Lecture 2023: Behavioral Macroeconomics via Sparse Dynamic Programming	16
Export-Led Decay: The Trade Channel in the Gold Standard Era	16
Coordination and Incumbency Advantage in Multi-Party Systems—Evidence from French Elections	16
Firms’ Inflation Expectations: New Evidence from France	16
Debt Overhang, Rollover Risk, and Corporate Investment: Evidence from the European Crisis	15
Both Judge and Party? Investigating the Political Unbiasedness of Fact-Checkers	15
Information Technology, Improved Access, and Use of Prescription Drugs	15
Dynamics of Large Multinationals	14
Reflecting on the First 20 Years of the Journal of the European Economic Association	14
Values as Luxury Goods and Political Behavior	13
Debt Crises, Fast and Slow	13
Mobile Apps and Targeted Advertising: Competitive Effects of Data Sharing	13
Inattention and the Taxation Bias	13
The Dynamic Impact of Exporting on Firm R&D Investment	13
Presidential Address 2022: Economic Development and the Organisation Of Labour: Evidence from the Jobs of the World Project	13
Forward Guidance and Household Expectations	13
“Marshall Lecture 2020: The Measure of Monopsony”	12
FBBVA Lecture 2024: The Uncharted Waters of International Trade	12
Experimental Evidence from a Conditional Cash Transfer Program: Schooling, Learning, Fertility, and Labor Market Outcomes after 10 Years	11
Ethnic Conflict and the Informational Dividend of Democracy	11
Safe Spaces for Teenage Girls in a Time of Crisis	11
Erratum: Social Norms and Fertility	11
Reporting Peers’ Wrongdoing: Evidence on the Effect of Incentives on Morally Controversial Behavior	11
Time to Grow Up? Adult Children as Determinants of Parental Labor Supply	11
Chain Restaurant Calorie Posting Laws, Obesity, and Consumer Welfare	11
Risky Gravity	10
When in Rome... On Local Norms and Sentencing Decisions	10
Monetary Policy and Sovereign Debt Sustainability	10
The Hard Problem of Prediction for Conflict Prevention	10
Carbon Taxation and Greenflation: Evidence from Europe and Canada	10
The Quran and the Sword	10
The Gender Gap in Earnings Losses After Job Displacement	10
Reconciling Relational Contracting and Hold-up: A Model of Repeated Negotiations	10
Life Out of the Shadows: the Impacts of Regularization Programs on the Lives of Forced Migrants	9
Early Stimulation and Nutrition: The Impacts of a Scalable Intervention	9
Application Barriers and the Socioeconomic Gap in Child Care Enrollment	9
Spending Allocation under Nominal Uncertainty: A Model of Effective Price Rigidity	9

Engineering Growth	9
Bubbles and Stagnation	9
Forced Migration and Local Public Policies: Evidence from Post-War West Germany	9
Social Interactions and Legislative Activity	9
Bureaucrats and Policies in Equilibrium Administrations	8
Traumatic Experiences Adversely Affect Life Cycle Labor Market Outcomes of the Next Generation—Evidence from Wwii Nazi Raids	8
Priors Rule: When Do Malfeasance Revelations Help Or Hurt Incumbent Parties?	8
Cohabitation vs. Marriage: Mating Strategies by Education in The USA	8
Improving Parenting Practices for Early Child Development: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda	8
Contracting for Coordination	8
Higher Education and Mortality: Legacies of an Authoritarian College Contraction	8
The Human Cost of Collusion: Health Effects of a Mexican Insulin Cartel	8
Stereotypes and Belief Updating	8
Global Profit Shifting of Multinational Companies: Evidence from Country-by-Country Reporting Micro Data	7
Formation of College Plans: Expected Returns, Preferences, and Adjustment Process	7
The Effect of Pension Subsidies on the Retirement Timing of Older Women	7
Social Benefits and Private Costs of Driving Restriction Policies: The Impact of Madrid Central on Congestion, Pollution, and Consumer Spending	7
Regulating Platform Fees under Price Parity	7
Make Hay While the Sun Shines: an Empirical Study of Maximum Price, Regret, and Trading Decisions	7
Gross Capital Flows by Banks, Corporates, and Sovereigns	7
Social Capital, Government Expenditures, and Growth	7
Can Good Products Drive Out Bad? A Randomized Intervention in the Antimalarial Medicine Market in Uganda	7
The Political Economy Consequences of China’s Export Slowdown	7
Collective Information Acquisition	7
The Life-Cycle Effects of Pension Reforms: A Structural Approach	6
Can Simple Psychological Interventions Increase Preventive Health Investment?	6
FBBVA Lecture 2023. The Importance of Modeling Income Taxes over Time: U.S. Reforms and Outcomes	6
Price Setting and Price Stickiness: A Behavioral Foundation of Inaction Bands	6
The Supply of Skill and Endogenous Technical Change: Evidence from a College Expansion Reform	6
Bank Capital Regulation in a Zero Interest Environment	6
How Allowing a Little Bit of Dissent Helps Control Social Media: Impact of Market Structure on Censorship Compliance	6
European Firm Concentration and Aggregate Productivity	6
American Indian Casinos and Native American Self-Identification	6
Correction To: Structural Reforms and Elections: Evidence from a World-Wide New Dataset	6
Law Enforcement and Bargaining over Illicit Drug Prices: Structural Evidence from a Gang’s Ledger	6
Absenteeism, Productivity, and Relational Contracts Inside the Firm	6
Structural Reforms and Elections: Evidence from a World-Wide New Dataset	6
Unintended Consequences of the Global Derivatives Market Reform	6
Monetary Policy in a World of Cryptocurrencies	6
Experimental Evidence on the Acceptance of Males Falling Behind	5
Testing Models of Strategic Uncertainty: Equilibrium Selection in Repeated Games	5
Optimal Time-Consistent Government Debt Maturity, Fiscal Policy, and Default	5
Discretion and Favoritism in Public Procurement	5
Consumer Credit with Over-Optimistic Borrowers	5
The Effect of Social Media on Elections: Evidence from The United States	5
Liquidity and Discipline. Bank due Diligence Over the Business Cycle	5
Inattentive Inference	5
How To Discipline Financial Markets: Reputation Is Not Enough	4
A Worker’s Backpack as an Alternative to PAYG Pension Systems	4
The Side Effects of Safe Asset Creation	4
Women’s Fertility and Labor Market Responses to a Health Innovation	4
Structural Change within the Services Sector and the Future of Cost Disease	4
The One-Child Policy and Household Saving	4
What’s Wrong with Annuity Markets?	4
Judge Bias in Labor Courts and Firm Performance	4
Marshall Lecture 2022: The Economics of Women’s Rights	4
The Making of Social Democracy: the Economic and Electoral Consequences of Norway’s 1936 Folk School Reform	4
Reservation Wages and Workers’ Valuation of Job Flexibility: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment	4
Motherhood and the Gender Productivity Gap	4