Journal of Institutional Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Institutional 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Beyond state capacity: bureaucratic performance, policy implementation and reform31
Economic cognitive institutions30
The corruption–growth relationship: does the political regime matter?24
Commemorating Geert Hofstede, a pioneer in the study of culture and institutions21
The Ostroms and the contestable nature of goods: beyond taxonomies and toward institutional polycentricity20
The evolution of the Offshore US-Dollar System: past, present and four possible futures18
Determinants of institutional trust: the role of cultural context18
Blockchain and institutional complexity: an extended institutional approach17
A machine-learning history of English caselaw and legal ideas prior to the Industrial Revolution I: generating and interpreting the estimates16
A polycentric approach for pandemic governance: nested externalities and co-production challenges16
Hybrids: where are we?16
Uncertainty and dispute resolution for blockchain and smart contract institutions14
Is tax morale culturally driven?14
Is Bitcoin a decentralized payment mechanism?13
Spectrum anarchy: why self-governance of the radio spectrum works better than we think13
Frank Knight, uncertainty and knowledge spillover entrepreneurship12
Corruption and SME growth: the roles of institutional networking and financial slack12
Institutions, uncertainty, and entrepreneurial judgment12
Cultural roots of family ties12
Institutional quality and the capital structure of microfinance institutions: the moderating role of board gender diversity12
A machine-learning history of English caselaw and legal ideas prior to the Industrial Revolution II: applications11
From hierarchies to markets and partially back again in electricity: responding to decarbonization and security of supply goals11
Digital protectionism and national planning in the age of the internet: the case of Iran10
Blockchain networks as constitutional and competitive polycentric orders10
Response to governmental COVID-19 restrictions: the role of informal institutions10
On the limits of markets10
The fundamental Coase of development: property rights foundations of the effective state9
Individualism and attitudes towards reporting corruption: evidence from post-communist economies9
Trust and R&D investments: evidence from OECD countries9
The origins of the state: technology, cooperation and institutions9
The chronic uncertainty of American Indian property rights9
Economic freedom improves income mobility: evidence from Canadian provinces, 1982–20188
A new understanding of the history of limited liability: an invitation for theoretical reframing8
The primacy of property; or, the subordination of property rights8
Traditional law in times of the nation state: why is it so prevalent?8
Burning the Rechtsstaat: legal institutions and protection of the rule of law8
Who are the champions? Inequality, economic freedom and the Olympics8
The market as a process for the discovery of whom not to trust7
The change in social norms in the Mafia's territories: the anti-racket movement of Addiopizzo7
Mental models and institutional inertia7
Coproduction and the crafting of cognitive institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic7
Testing Todd: family types and development7
Measuring economic freedom during the Covid-19 pandemic7
Crafting of cognitive institutions for overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic7
Collaborative innovation blocs and antifragility7
Political instability, institutional change and economic growth in Brazil since 18706
Formal and informal institutions: understanding the shadow economy in transition countries6
Creativity and security as a cultural recipe for entrepreneurship6
Beyond behaviorism, positivism, and neo-institutionalism in economics: a conversation with Deirdre Nansen McCloskey6
Commemorating Oliver Williamson, a founding father of transaction cost economics6
Carl Menger:Contribution to the Theory of Capital(1888), Section V6
Community policing on American Indian reservations: a preliminary investigation6
Resilience to economic shrinking in an emerging economy: the role of social capabilities in Indonesia, 1950–20156
Possession is Nine-Tenths of the Law: possession, property, and coordination in a Hawk–Dove Experiment5
Liability for robots II: an economic analysis5
Financial constraint, trust, and export performances: firm-level evidence from Africa5
Institutions, the social capital structure, and multilevel marketing companies5
Atmosphere, private ordering, and industrial pluralism: Williamson's evolving science of organization5
Deals that start when you sign them5
Conceptualizing the business corporation: insights from history5
Let's do it Frank's way: general principles and historical specificity in the study of entrepreneurship5
On legal bubbles: some thoughts on legal shockwaves at the core of the digital economy5
Oliver Williamson: a Hero's journey on the merits5
Liability for robots I: legal challenges5
Austrian behavioral economics5
Knight, financial institutions, and entrepreneurship in developing economies5
Culture and institutions: a review of Joel Mokyr'sA Culture of Growth5
The labor-managed firm, Oliver Williamson, and me4
The role of collective action for the emergence and consolidation of democracy4
Institutions, ideas and economic change: some reflections on Geoffrey Hodgson's ‘Culture and Institutions’4
The value of political connections: evidence from China's anti-corruption campaign4
Coevolving institutions and the paradox of informal constraints4
Markets, repugnance, and externalities4
If you can do it for free, there's some way to do it for money4
Innovation, on-the-job learning, and labor contracts: an organizational equilibria approach4
Financial globalization and institutions in Africa: the case of foreign direct investment, central bank independence and political institutions4
Please, open the windows!4
Introduction to the special issue on the Centenary of Frank H. Knight's Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit4
Bet against yourself: integrating insurance and entrepreneurship4
What is a firm? A reply to Jean-Philippe Robé4
Economic freedom and antisemitism4
Economic freedom reform: does culture matter?4
Institutional incentives and community policing3
Financial institutions and the British Industrial Revolution: did financial underdevelopment hold back growth?3
Post-Northian institutional economics: a research agenda for cognitive institutions3
Individual trust and quality of regional government3
The dynamic efficiency of gifting3
Sorting out the aid–corruption nexus3
Regional financial disparity in India: can it be measured?3
A time to throw stones, a time to reap: how long does it take for democratic transitions to improve institutional outcomes?3
The impact of economic institutions on government policy: does contract-intensive economy promote impartial governance?3
Thinking carefully about inclusiveness: evidence from European guilds3
Property rights rule: comments on Bart Wilson's ‘The primacy of property; Or, the subordination of property rights’3
The common sense of economics and divergent approaches in economic thought: a view from Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit3
Laissez les bons temps rouler? The persistent effect French civil law has on corruption, institutions, and incomes in Louisiana3
Introduction to the symposium on institutional analysis, market processes, and interdisciplinary social science2
Differences in African banking systems: causes and consequences2
Garnering sympathy: moral appeals and land bargaining under autocracy2
Repugnant innovation2
Uncertainty and the social organization of economic activity2
Institutional analysis and the gift: an introduction to the symposium2
Monopoly as a ‘culture-history fact’: Knight, Menger, and the role of institutions2
The authors of economics journals revisited: evidence from a large-scale replication of Hodgson and Rothman (1999)2
Does democracy cause gender equality?2
Knightian uncertainty in non-market institutional settings: the case of democracy and nonprofit civil society2
Geographical indications as global knowledge commons: Ostrom's law on common intellectual property and collective action2
Oliver Williamson and the strategic theory of the firm2
Resolving Douglass C. North's ‘puzzle’ concerning China's household responsibility system2
On money as a conventional sign: revisiting Aristotle's conception of money2
Frank Knight and the cognitive diversity of entrepreneurship2
Legal origins, religion and health outcomes: a cross-country comparison of organ donation laws2
Analyzing institutional changes in community-based management: a case study of a participatory guarantee system for organic labeling in Brazil2
Managing repugnance: how core-stigma shapes firm behavior2
Currency regimes and external competitiveness: the role of institutions, trade agreements and monetary frameworks2
The old boy network: are the professional networks of female executives less effective than men's for advancing their careers?2
Two sides of the coin: exploring the duality of corruption in Latin America2
Introduction to the special issue on institutions and culture in economic contexts2
Contractarian ideology and the legitimacy of government2
The relative importance of regional institutions and external finance for small business investment: evidence from Vietnam2
Fertile soil for intrapreneurship: impartial institutions and human capital2
Why is there property? A response to Professor Wilson1
Collective action, opportunism, and class agency under ineffective state enforcement: Marx on English Factory Laws1
The evolution of the football jersey – an institutional perspective1
Pre-colonial centralization and tax compliance norms in contemporary Uganda1
Liberal egalitarian justice in the distribution of a common output. Experimental evidence and implications for effective institution design1
Employment preservation and textile regulation in early modern England, 1550–16401
Cascading expert failure1
Global economic freedom during the second year of the pandemic1
Firms versus corporations: a rebuttal of Simon Deakin, David Gindis, and Geoffrey M. Hodgson1
Diversified firms: existence and behaviors1
Economic analyses of repugnant market transactions: a modest typology1
Theory in closer contact with industrial life: American institutional economists on competition theory and policy1
‘It was organized from the bottom’: the response from community-based institutions during the 2014 Ebola epidemic1
Adaptation, adjudication, and private ordering: Contractual Relations through the Williamson Lens1
Environmental economics in Classical Athens1
Property rights aren't primary; ideas are1
Do partisan politics influence domestic credit?1
Role of social aversion in the motivations for tax law compliance1
Institutions and tax capacity in sub-Saharan Africa1
No taxation without informational foundation: on the role of legibility in tax state development1
Market dominance and endogenous decline: the contribution of historical analysis1
Introduction to the Oliver E. Williamson memorial issue1
Economics is whatever the comparative advantage of economists is: a comment on Leeson (2020)1
On the primacy of economic property rights1
Integrating variable risk preferences, trust, and transaction cost economics – 25 years on: reflections in memory of Oliver Williamson1
Specific investments, cognitive resources, and specialized nature of research production in academic institutions: why shared governance matters for performance1
On the adapting function of social institutions1
Institutional resilience: how the formal legal system sustains informal cooperation1
Disruptive innovation in the economic organization of China and the West1
Shocking resilience? Effects of extreme events on constitutional compliance1
A case study of bureaucratic discretion: heterogeneous application of market entry regulation in Germany1
To what extent do institutional arrangements shape the excludability of resource systems? Lessons from French farms1
The legacy of Frank H. Knight for the politics of financial governance1
Donald T. Campbell on the institutions of scientific knowledge and the limits to interdisciplinarity1
Markets and communities: the social cost of the meritocracy1
Frontier academic research in OECD countries: the role of institutional factors1
JOI volume 18 issue 6 Cover and Back matter1
Religion without doctrine or clergy: the case of Ancient Greece1
De jure property rights and state capacity: evidence from land specification in the Boer Republics1
Institutions, social order and wealth in ancient India1
Repugnance, externalities and subjectivism: a comment on Krawiec1
Games prisoners do not play: against the Hobbes-Zimbardo approach of unmitigated prison violence1
The German historical school on monetary calculation and the feasibility of socialism1
Choice of slavery institutions in Ancient Greece: Athenian chattels and Spartan helots1
Ownership or possession? On Bart Wilson's concept of ownership1
Making ideas actionable in institutionalism: the case of trade liberalization in Kennedy's foreign economic policy1
Problematizing state capacity: the Rwandan case1
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