OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Institutional Economics 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Divergence before the division: the colonial origins of separate development paths in Korea	43
List of Referees	34
Measuring open access orders	26
Repugnance, externalities and subjectivism: a comment on Krawiec	21
Integrity as a bonding mechanism in agency theory	18
The limits of generality for constitutional design	18
Institutional trust and the confiscation of real estate assets from organised crime	16
Comparing Ostrom's design principles to Habraken's open-building framework: disentangling a polycentric built environment	16
The economic institutions of artificial intelligence	16
Ideas, institutions, and incompleteness	15
Pre-colonial centralization and tax compliance norms in contemporary Uganda	13
Why is there property? A response to Professor Wilson	13
Exchanges with and without the sword: slavery, politics-as-exchange and freedom in James M. Buchanan's institutional economics	13
Towards polycentric federalism: assessing federal institutional design in multiethnic African states	12
Problematizing state capacity: the Rwandan case	12
The economics of cognitive institutions: mapping debates, looking ahead	11
Formal and informal institutions: understanding the shadow economy in transition countries	10
On mechanisms of meritocratic recruitment: competence and impartiality	10
Formal and informal institutions: some problems of meaning, impact, and interaction	10
Property rights aren't primary; ideas are	10
AI adoption in bureaucracies	9
Yoram Barzel: commemorating the life of an institutional economist	9
Social debt and the quasi-contract: the solidarism of Léon Bourgeois as a form of liberal solidarity	9
Do human capital and institutional quality contribute to Brazil's long term real convergence/divergence process? A Markov regime-switching autoregressive approach	8
Choice of slavery institutions in Ancient Greece: Athenian chattels and Spartan helots	8

Sludge, transaction benefits, and cognitive institutions	7
The paradox of effective altruism	7
Property versus possession, ten years on: assessing the lexical impact of the 2015 JOIE debate	7
JOI volume 18 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	7
How informal exchange persists under strong institutions: a triadic model of informal governance	7
Understanding Masahiko Aoki’s comparative institutional analysis	6
Trust in government, institutional quality and the perception of water services	6
Determinants of social norms I – the role of geography	6
Verified pseudonymity as governance technology: decentralized identity, soulbound tokens, and online discourse	6
Career lessons from economists’ life stories: Brian J. Loasby as an Exemplar	6
Recurrent exchange rate shocks and Anfal in Iran	6
Constraints on the executive and tax revenues in the long run	6
On the adapting function of social institutions	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
Opportunism and the limits of blockchain as urban land governance: a comparative transaction-cost analysis	5
The dynamic efficiency of gifting	5
Does centralisation clean up? quasi-experimental evidence from China’s environmental reforms	5
The institutional environment and gig platform transaction cost solutions	5
Beyond ‘permissionless’: governance, commitment, and rule change in public blockchains	5
Banking on research: Who leads? Who follows? Who cares?	5
Institutions and industry-level employment creation: an empirical analysis of the US metro-level data	5
The words that keep people apart: official language and accountability	5
Heterogeneous effects of economic freedom on human capital in developing countries	5
Rule of law as a determinant of the export performance of Italian provinces	5
Towards a realistic view of consumer behaviour	5
Managing repugnance: how core-stigma shapes firm behavior	4
Seeds of institutional change: the biopiracy of Brazilian rubber	4
Russia as a great power: from 1815 to the present day Part II	4
Norms are relational: cognitive institutions, practices, and the ‘where’ question	4
To what extent do institutional arrangements shape the excludability of resource systems? Lessons from French farms	4
Losers and winners: what people think about contested-commodity transactions	4
Institutional resilience: how the formal legal system sustains informal cooperation	4
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
Liberal egalitarian justice in the distribution of a common output. Experimental evidence and implications for effective institution design – ERRATUM	4
‘It was organized from the bottom’: the response from community-based institutions during the 2014 Ebola epidemic	4
The role of reputational incentives in an international currency union: Greek monetary institutions in the classical and Hellenistic periods	3
Shocking resilience? Effects of extreme events on constitutional compliance	3
Hayek's extended mind: on the (im)possibility of Austrian behavioural economics	3
The past, present, and future of polycentric legal order: a comparative institutional analysis of lex mercatoria and blockchain	3
Jaurès’s The New Army (1911): the organisation of democratic institutions as war prevention	3
The political economy of foreign fighter death in the Russo-Ukrainian War: the role of institutions, politics, and international trade	3
A needs theory of governance: taking transaction cost theory back to humanistic economics and self-actualisation	3
Meso-institutions: why we need them (introduction to the symposium on meso-institutions)	3
Measuring economic freedom during the Covid-19 pandemic	3
List of Referees	3
Frontier academic research in OECD countries: the role of institutional factors	3
Disruptive innovation in the economic organization of China and the West	3
Ownership or possession? On Bart Wilson's concept of ownership	3

Institutional stickiness through subsidiarity: Germany’s childcare guarantee	3
The Ostroms on self-governance: the importance of cybernetics	3
Enacting the future: institutions, temporal affordances, and the formation of expectations	3
Mapping inflation to economic freedom in the post-COVID era	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 1	2
The dynamics of anti-corruption: a multi-level framework for intervention design	2
JOI volume 18 issue 6 Cover and Front matter	2
The Black Mouth Society and governance on the Great Plains	2
Institutions and tax capacity in sub-Saharan Africa	2
Beyond versus : the institutional coevolution of the firm and the corporation	2
JOI volume 18 issue 6 Cover and Back matter	2
Individualism, institutions, and patriarchal attitudes	2
‘A public economy approach to education: school choice and co-production’ revisited	2
Repugnant innovation	2
Geographical indications as global knowledge commons: Ostrom's law on common intellectual property and collective action	2
Deliberative preferences for collective adaptation: evidence from the Philippines and Viet Nam	2
List of Referees	2
Property rights rule: comments on Bart Wilson's ‘The primacy of property; Or, the subordination of property rights’	2
Conceptualising knowledge governance: knowledge regimes and institutions	2
Implementation of the Brazilian Forest Code: a meso-institutional approach	2
A transaction cost theory of constitutional change	2