OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The corruption–growth relationship: does the political regime matter?	36
Determinants of institutional trust: the role of cultural context	28
Commemorating Geert Hofstede, a pioneer in the study of culture and institutions	26
Hybrids: where are we?	22
A polycentric approach for pandemic governance: nested externalities and co-production challenges	22
Uncertainty and dispute resolution for blockchain and smart contract institutions	17
Individualism and attitudes towards reporting corruption: evidence from post-communist economies	16
Response to governmental COVID-19 restrictions: the role of informal institutions	16
Institutions, uncertainty, and entrepreneurial judgment	15
Institutional quality and the capital structure of microfinance institutions: the moderating role of board gender diversity	15
Corruption and SME growth: the roles of institutional networking and financial slack	14
Is tax morale culturally driven?	14
Blockchain networks as constitutional and competitive polycentric orders	14
From hierarchies to markets and partially back again in electricity: responding to decarbonization and security of supply goals	14
Frank Knight, uncertainty and knowledge spillover entrepreneurship	13
The chronic uncertainty of American Indian property rights	12
Economic freedom improves income mobility: evidence from Canadian provinces, 1982–2018	11
The origins of the state: technology, cooperation and institutions	10
Mental models and institutional inertia	9
Who are the champions? Inequality, economic freedom and the Olympics	9
Knight, financial institutions, and entrepreneurship in developing economies	9
Testing Todd: family types and development	9
Coproduction and the crafting of cognitive institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
The primacy of property; or, the subordination of property rights	8
Commemorating Oliver Williamson, a founding father of transaction cost economics	8

Community policing on American Indian reservations: a preliminary investigation	8
Laissez les bons temps rouler? The persistent effect French civil law has on corruption, institutions, and incomes in Louisiana	8
Crafting of cognitive institutions for overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Measuring economic freedom during the Covid-19 pandemic	8
Formal and informal institutions: understanding the shadow economy in transition countries	8
Coevolving institutions and the paradox of informal constraints	8
The market as a process for the discovery of whom not to trust	7
Atmosphere, private ordering, and industrial pluralism: Williamson's evolving science of organization	7
The value of political connections: evidence from China's anti-corruption campaign	7
Liability for robots I: legal challenges	7
On legal bubbles: some thoughts on legal shockwaves at the core of the digital economy	7
Introduction to the special issue on the Centenary of Frank H. Knight's Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit	6
Liability for robots II: an economic analysis	6
Creativity and security as a cultural recipe for entrepreneurship	6
Markets, repugnance, and externalities	6
Sorting out the aid–corruption nexus	6
Beyond behaviorism, positivism, and neo-institutionalism in economics: a conversation with Deirdre Nansen McCloskey	6
Let's do it Frank's way: general principles and historical specificity in the study of entrepreneurship	6
Post-Northian institutional economics: a research agenda for cognitive institutions	5
What is a firm? A reply to Jean-Philippe Robé	5
Culture and institutions: a review of Joel Mokyr'sA Culture of Growth	5
Analyzing institutional changes in community-based management: a case study of a participatory guarantee system for organic labeling in Brazil	5
Financial constraint, trust, and export performances: firm-level evidence from Africa	5
Resilience to economic shrinking in an emerging economy: the role of social capabilities in Indonesia, 1950–2015	5
Deals that start when you sign them	5
Austrian behavioral economics	5
Innovation, on-the-job learning, and labor contracts: an organizational equilibria approach	5
Oliver Williamson: a Hero's journey on the merits	5
The labor-managed firm, Oliver Williamson, and me	4
Hayek's extended mind: on the (im)possibility of Austrian behavioural economics	4
The impact of economic institutions on government policy: does contract-intensive economy promote impartial governance?	4
Institutions and tax capacity in sub-Saharan Africa	4
Financial institutions and the British Industrial Revolution: did financial underdevelopment hold back growth?	4
A time to throw stones, a time to reap: how long does it take for democratic transitions to improve institutional outcomes?	4
Bet against yourself: integrating insurance and entrepreneurship	4
Differences in African banking systems: causes and consequences	4
The dynamic efficiency of gifting	4
Economic freedom reform: does culture matter?	4
Frontier academic research in OECD countries: the role of institutional factors	4
Individual trust and quality of regional government	4
Exchanges with and without the sword: slavery, politics-as-exchange and freedom in James M. Buchanan's institutional economics	4
Geographical indications as global knowledge commons: Ostrom's law on common intellectual property and collective action	4
Institutions, ideas and economic change: some reflections on Geoffrey Hodgson's ‘Culture and Institutions’	4
Fertile soil for intrapreneurship: impartial institutions and human capital	3
Environmental economics in Classical Athens	3
Oliver Williamson and the strategic theory of the firm	3
The old boy network: are the professional networks of female executives less effective than men's for advancing their careers?	3
Elinor Ostrom on choice, collective action and rationality: a Senian analysis	3
On money as a conventional sign: revisiting Aristotle's conception of money	3
Resolving Douglass C. North's ‘puzzle’ concerning China's household responsibility system	3

The authors of economics journals revisited: evidence from a large-scale replication of Hodgson and Rothman (1999)	3
Does democracy cause gender equality?	3
Thinking carefully about inclusiveness: evidence from European guilds	3
Garnering sympathy: moral appeals and land bargaining under autocracy	3
Two sides of the coin: exploring the duality of corruption in Latin America	3
Regional financial disparity in India: can it be measured?	3
The business model as a generative replicator	3
The common sense of economics and divergent approaches in economic thought: a view from Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit	3
Institutional resilience: how the formal legal system sustains informal cooperation	3
Problematizing state capacity: the Rwandan case	3
Institutional incentives and community policing	3
Property rights rule: comments on Bart Wilson's ‘The primacy of property; Or, the subordination of property rights’	3
Introduction to the special issue on institutions and culture in economic contexts	3
The German historical school on monetary calculation and the feasibility of socialism	3
Shock me like a Hurricane: how Hurricane Katrina changed Louisiana's formal and informal institutions	2
Uncertainty and the social organization of economic activity	2
Theory in closer contact with industrial life: American institutional economists on competition theory and policy	2
Religion without doctrine or clergy: the case of Ancient Greece	2
Specific investments, cognitive resources, and specialized nature of research production in academic institutions: why shared governance matters for performance	2
Monopoly as a ‘culture-history fact’: Knight, Menger, and the role of institutions	2
Legitimacy of government and governance	2
Knightian uncertainty in non-market institutional settings: the case of democracy and nonprofit civil society	2
Markets and communities: the social cost of the meritocracy	2
Do partisan politics influence domestic credit?	2
Contractarian ideology and the legitimacy of government	2
Disruptive innovation in the economic organization of China and the West	2
On the primacy of economic property rights	2
Frank Knight and the cognitive diversity of entrepreneurship	2
The Ostroms on self-governance: the importance of cybernetics	2
Shocking resilience? Effects of extreme events on constitutional compliance	2
Introduction to the symposium on institutional analysis, market processes, and interdisciplinary social science	2
Repugnant innovation	2
Donald T. Campbell on the institutions of scientific knowledge and the limits to interdisciplinarity	2
Currency regimes and external competitiveness: the role of institutions, trade agreements and monetary frameworks	2
Adaptation, adjudication, and private ordering: Contractual Relations through the Williamson Lens	2
No taxation without informational foundation: on the role of legibility in tax state development	2
Liberal egalitarian justice in the distribution of a common output. Experimental evidence and implications for effective institution design	2
Choice of slavery institutions in Ancient Greece: Athenian chattels and Spartan helots	2
Legal origins, religion and health outcomes: a cross-country comparison of organ donation laws	2
Managing repugnance: how core-stigma shapes firm behavior	2
The effect of corruption control on efficiency spillovers	2
Ancestral institutions and the salience of African ethnicity: Theory and Evidence	1
Repugnance, externalities and subjectivism: a comment on Krawiec	1
On the adapting function of social institutions	1
Ownership or possession? On Bart Wilson's concept of ownership	1
Introduction to the Oliver E. Williamson memorial issue	1
Fiscal capacity in non-democratic states: the origins and expansion of the income tax	1
Economic analyses of repugnant market transactions: a modest typology	1
Property rights aren't primary; ideas are	1
To what extent do institutional arrangements shape the excludability of resource systems? Lessons from French farms	1
On inequality, growth and trust: some evidence from the lab	1
Pre-colonial centralization and tax compliance norms in contemporary Uganda	1
Role of social aversion in the motivations for tax law compliance	1
Employment preservation and textile regulation in early modern England, 1550–1640	1
Worker takeovers: a comparative analysis of employee buyouts, other worker-managed firms, and conventional firms in Uruguay	1
Divergence before the division: the colonial origins of separate development paths in Korea	1
Integrating variable risk preferences, trust, and transaction cost economics – 25 years on: reflections in memory of Oliver Williamson	1
Global economic freedom during the second year of the pandemic	1
Firms versus corporations: a rebuttal of Simon Deakin, David Gindis, and Geoffrey M. Hodgson	1
‘It was organized from the bottom’: the response from community-based institutions during the 2014 Ebola epidemic	1
Making ideas actionable in institutionalism: the case of trade liberalization in Kennedy's foreign economic policy	1
The economics of cognitive institutions: mapping debates, looking ahead	1
Why is there property? A response to Professor Wilson	1
The economic institutions of artificial intelligence	1
De jureproperty rights and state capacity: evidence from land specification in the Boer Republics	1
JOI volume 18 issue 6 Cover and Back matter	1
Constitutional catallaxy and indigenous rights: the Australian case	1
Diversified firms: existence and behaviors	1
Habraken, Jacobs, and Ostrom on governing the built environment: the case of common interest developments	1
Conceptualizing the fiscal state: implications for sub-Saharan Africa	1
Measuring open access orders	1
Games prisoners do not play: against the Hobbes-Zimbardo approach of unmitigated prison violence	1
Accidental socialism: a natural experiment in Haiti 1796–1820	1
The relationship between institutional quality, trust and private savings	1
A case study of bureaucratic discretion: heterogeneous application of market entry regulation in Germany	1
The legacy of Frank H. Knight for the politics of financial governance	1
The evolution of the football jersey – an institutional perspective	1
The institutional environment and gig platform transaction cost solutions	1