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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Divergence before the division: the colonial origins of separate development paths in Korea	34
Measuring open access orders	20
The limits of generality for constitutional design	19
Repugnance, externalities and subjectivism: a comment on Krawiec	17
Institutional trust and the confiscation of real estate assets from organised crime	15
List of Referees	15
Comparing Ostrom's design principles to Habraken's open-building framework: disentangling a polycentric built environment	14
Pre-colonial centralization and tax compliance norms in contemporary Uganda	13
Ideas, institutions, and incompleteness	12
Towards polycentric federalism: assessing federal institutional design in multiethnic African states	11
Why is there property? A response to Professor Wilson	11
The economic institutions of artificial intelligence	11
AI adoption in bureaucracies	10
The economics of cognitive institutions: mapping debates, looking ahead	10
Property rights aren't primary; ideas are	10
Formal and informal institutions: understanding the shadow economy in transition countries	10
Social debt and the quasi-contract: the solidarism of Léon Bourgeois as a form of liberal solidarity	9
Formal and informal institutions: some problems of meaning, impact, and interaction	8
Exchanges with and without the sword: slavery, politics-as-exchange and freedom in James M. Buchanan's institutional economics	8
On mechanisms of meritocratic recruitment: competence and impartiality	8
Problematizing state capacity: the Rwandan case	8
Do human capital and institutional quality contribute to Brazil's long term real convergence/divergence process? A Markov regime-switching autoregressive approach	7
Sludge, transaction benefits, and cognitive institutions	7
Yoram Barzel: commemorating the life of an institutional economist	7
Choice of slavery institutions in Ancient Greece: Athenian chattels and Spartan helots	7

Property versus possession, ten years on: assessing the lexical impact of the 2015 JOIE debate	6
Recurrent exchange rate shocks and Anfal in Iran	6
Constraints on the executive and tax revenues in the long run	6
JOI volume 18 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	6
Understanding Masahiko Aoki’s comparative institutional analysis	6
The paradox of effective altruism	6
Career lessons from economists’ life stories: Brian J. Loasby as an Exemplar	6
On the adapting function of social institutions	5
The institutional environment and gig platform transaction cost solutions	5
The dynamic efficiency of gifting	5
Banking on research: Who leads? Who follows? Who cares?	5
The words that keep people apart: official language and accountability	5
Heterogeneous effects of economic freedom on human capital in developing countries	5
Norms are relational: cognitive institutions, practices, and the ‘where’ question	5
Rule of law as a determinant of the export performance of Italian provinces	5
Determinants of social norms I – the role of geography	5
No taxation without state-assigned property rights: formalization of individual property rights on land and taxation in sub-Saharan Africa	5
Elinor Ostrom on choice, collective action and rationality: a Senian analysis	5
Institutions and industry-level employment creation: an empirical analysis of the US metro-level data	5
Towards a realistic view of consumer behaviour	5
Governing entrepreneurial opportunities: a discriminating alignment approach	4
Corruption and informal practices in the Middle East and North Africa: a pooled cross-sectional analysis	4
Editorial report 2022	4
Managing repugnance: how core-stigma shapes firm behavior	4
‘It was organized from the bottom’: the response from community-based institutions during the 2014 Ebola epidemic	4
JOI volume 18 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
To what extent do institutional arrangements shape the excludability of resource systems? Lessons from French farms	4
Hayek's extended mind: on the (im)possibility of Austrian behavioural economics	3
Meso-institutions: why we need them (introduction to the symposium on meso-institutions)	3
The past, present, and future of polycentric legal order: a comparative institutional analysis of lex mercatoria and blockchain	3
The Ostroms on self-governance: the importance of cybernetics	3
List of Referees	3
Frontier academic research in OECD countries: the role of institutional factors	3
Measuring economic freedom during the Covid-19 pandemic	3
Shocking resilience? Effects of extreme events on constitutional compliance	3
Liberal egalitarian justice in the distribution of a common output. Experimental evidence and implications for effective institution design – ERRATUM	3
The role of reputational incentives in an international currency union: Greek monetary institutions in the classical and Hellenistic periods	3
The complementarity between automation and flexible labour contracts: firm-level evidence from Italy	3
Russia as a great power: from 1815 to the present day Part II	3
Jaurès’s The New Army (1911): the organisation of democratic institutions as war prevention	3
Institutional resilience: how the formal legal system sustains informal cooperation	3
Enacting the future: institutions, temporal affordances, and the formation of expectations	3
Ownership or possession? On Bart Wilson's concept of ownership	2
Mapping inflation to economic freedom in the post-COVID era	2
JOI volume 18 issue 6 Cover and Front matter	2
Institutions and tax capacity in sub-Saharan Africa	2
Implementation of the Brazilian Forest Code: a meso-institutional approach	2
Conceptualising knowledge governance: knowledge regimes and institutions	2
Disruptive innovation in the economic organization of China and the West	2
Constitutional catallaxy and indigenous rights: the Australian case	2

List of Referees	2
Repugnant innovation	2
‘A public economy approach to education: school choice and co-production’ revisited	2
Theorizing polycentric governance of global socio-ecological challenges through a meso-institutional perspective	2
Debt restrictions and municipal indebtedness in American cities: evidence from the Roaring Twenties	2
Deliberative preferences for collective adaptation: evidence from the Philippines and Viet Nam	2
The political economy of foreign fighter death in the Russo-Ukrainian War: the role of institutions, politics, and international trade	2
A needs theory of governance: taking transaction cost theory back to humanistic economics and self-actualisation	2
JOI volume 18 issue 6 Cover and Back matter	2
Russia as a great power: from 1815 to the present day Part 1	2
The Black Mouth Society and governance on the Great Plains	2
Individualism, institutions, and patriarchal attitudes	2
Property rights rule: comments on Bart Wilson's ‘The primacy of property; Or, the subordination of property rights’	2
JOI volume 18 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
Countless ways to count: the functional heterogeneity of number systems	1
The political economy of China's Belt and Road Initiative	1
Inclusive national innovation systems: rethinking institutions in the light of inclusion imperatives	1
Conceptualizing the fiscal state: implications for sub-Saharan Africa	1
Corporate hierarchies and workplace voice	1
Where lies the bundle of sticks? A comment on Bart Wilson's ‘The Primacy of Property’	1
Bringing emotions into post-Northian institutional economics: a reading inspired by John Dewey	1
Markets, repugnance, and externalities	1
Ancestral institutions and the salience of African ethnicity: Theory and Evidence	1
Polycentric governance in collusive agreements	1
The evolution of economies, technologies, and other institutions: exploring W. Brian Arthur's insights	1
Community and informal institutions in reforms under crises: the odyssey of a 350-year-old functionally credible water commons	1
The corporation from the Middle Ages to intellectual monopoly capitalism	1
The authors of economics journals revisited: evidence from a large-scale replication of Hodgson and Rothman (1999)	1
Shock me like a Hurricane: how Hurricane Katrina changed Louisiana's formal and informal institutions	1
The promise and perils of exclusion: using institutional design principles and the theory of clubs to analyse regional transmission organization governance	1
Do religious beliefs matter for economic values?	1
Economic analyses of repugnant market transactions: a modest typology	1
Geographical indications as global knowledge commons: Ostrom's law on common intellectual property and collective action	1
Worker takeovers: a comparative analysis of employee buyouts, other worker-managed firms, and conventional firms in Uruguay	1
Institutions and development in a fragile limited access order of late-medieval Lithuania	1
Why mission-directed governance risks authoritarianism: lessons from East Asia	1
Environmental economics in Classical Athens	1
Role of social aversion in the motivations for tax law compliance	1
Individualism, universalism and climate change	1
What do women get from a successful revolution?	1
Containment or bad detection? Poor state capacity implications on reported Covid-19 cases	1
Toward an economic theory of customary measurement	1
Learning like a state organizational learning and state capacity in ancient Greece	1
Repugnance and institutions: an introductory essay	1
Rules and temptations: which came first? – ERRATUM	1
Introduction to the symposium on ‘crisis and persistence: dynamics of institutional changes at the interface between formal and informal institutions’	1
Investing in fiscal capacity: legislative debates, military pressures, and tax policy in the United Kingdom (1803–1913)	1