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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Divergence before the division: the colonial origins of separate development paths in Korea23
Repugnance, externalities and subjectivism: a comment on Krawiec18
Measuring open access orders16
JOI volume 18 issue 2 Cover and Front matter14
The limits of generality for constitutional design14
From hierarchies to markets and partially back again in electricity: responding to decarbonization and security of supply goals13
JOI volume 17 issue 3 Cover and Back matter13
Innovation, on-the-job learning, and labor contracts: an organizational equilibria approach11
A further reply to Jean-Philippe Robé on the firm10
Pre-colonial centralization and tax compliance norms in contemporary Uganda9
Ideas, institutions, and incompleteness9
Knight, financial institutions, and entrepreneurship in developing economies9
The economic institutions of artificial intelligence9
Comparing Ostrom's design principles to Habraken's open-building framework: disentangling a polycentric built environment9
Formal and informal institutions: understanding the shadow economy in transition countries8
Property rights aren't primary; ideas are8
Towards polycentric federalism: assessing federal institutional design in multiethnic African states8
JOI volume 17 issue 5 Cover and Back matter8
Problematizing state capacity: the Rwandan case8
Why is there property? A response to Professor Wilson8
Formal and informal institutions: some problems of meaning, impact, and interaction7
The economics of cognitive institutions: mapping debates, looking ahead7
Exchanges with and without the sword: slavery, politics-as-exchange and freedom in James M. Buchanan's institutional economics7
On mechanisms of meritocratic recruitment: competence and impartiality7
Analyzing institutional changes in community-based management: a case study of a participatory guarantee system for organic labeling in Brazil6
JOI volume 17 issue 6 Cover and Back matter6
Choice of slavery institutions in Ancient Greece: Athenian chattels and Spartan helots6
Introduction to the symposium on institutional analysis, market processes, and interdisciplinary social science6
The paradox of effective altruism6
Yoram Barzel: commemorating the life of an institutional economist6
Do human capital and institutional quality contribute to Brazil's long term real convergence/divergence process? A Markov regime-switching autoregressive approach6
JOI volume 18 issue 5 Cover and Back matter6
Firms versus corporations: a rebuttal of Simon Deakin, David Gindis, and Geoffrey M. Hodgson5
Atmosphere, private ordering, and industrial pluralism: Williamson's evolving science of organization5
Introduction to the special issue on institutions and culture in economic contexts5
Constraints on the executive and tax revenues in the long run5
On the adapting function of social institutions5
Determinants of social norms I – the role of geography5
Deals that start when you sign them5
Career lessons from economists’ life stories: Brian J. Loasby as an Exemplar5
Fractionalization, polarization and banking stability in Africa4
Institutions, ideas and economic change: some reflections on Geoffrey Hodgson's ‘Culture and Institutions’4
Institutions and industry-level employment creation: an empirical analysis of the US metro-level data4
The dynamic efficiency of gifting4
Elinor Ostrom on choice, collective action and rationality: a Senian analysis4
The evolution of the football jersey – an institutional perspective4
Rule of law as a determinant of the export performance of Italian provinces4
Editorial report 20224
JOI volume 18 issue 3 Cover and Back matter4
No taxation without state-assigned property rights: formalization of individual property rights on land and taxation in sub-Saharan Africa4
The institutional environment and gig platform transaction cost solutions4
Economic freedom improves income mobility: evidence from Canadian provinces, 1982–20184
Towards a realistic view of consumer behaviour4
‘It was organized from the bottom’: the response from community-based institutions during the 2014 Ebola epidemic3
Governing entrepreneurial opportunities: a discriminating alignment approach3
Knightian uncertainty in non-market institutional settings: the case of democracy and nonprofit civil society3
To what extent do institutional arrangements shape the excludability of resource systems? Lessons from French farms3
Shocking resilience? Effects of extreme events on constitutional compliance3
Institutional resilience: how the formal legal system sustains informal cooperation3
Managing repugnance: how core-stigma shapes firm behavior3
Liability for robots II: an economic analysis3
JOI volume 17 issue 3 Cover and Front matter3
Liberal egalitarian justice in the distribution of a common output. Experimental evidence and implications for effective institution design – ERRATUM3
JOI volume 18 issue 4 Cover and Back matter3
Late colonial antecedents of modern democracy3
Russia as a great power: from 1815 to the present day Part II3
List of Referees2
Community policing on American Indian reservations: a preliminary investigation2
The role of reputational incentives in an international currency union: Greek monetary institutions in the classical and Hellenistic periods2
The complementarity between automation and flexible labour contracts: firm-level evidence from Italy2
List of Referees2
JOI volume 18 issue 6 Cover and Back matter2
The political economy of foreign fighter death in the Russo-Ukrainian War: the role of institutions, politics, and international trade2
Frank Knight and the cognitive diversity of entrepreneurship2
A polycentric approach for pandemic governance: nested externalities and co-production challenges2
The Ostroms on self-governance: the importance of cybernetics2
Individual trust and quality of regional government2
A needs theory of governance: taking transaction cost theory back to humanistic economics and self-actualisation2
Constitutional catallaxy and indigenous rights: the Australian case2
Russia as a great power: from 1815 to the present day Part 12
Ownership or possession? On Bart Wilson's concept of ownership2
Specific investments, cognitive resources, and specialized nature of research production in academic institutions: why shared governance matters for performance2
Frontier academic research in OECD countries: the role of institutional factors2
Hayek's extended mind: on the (im)possibility of Austrian behavioural economics2
Measuring economic freedom during the Covid-19 pandemic2
Disruptive innovation in the economic organization of China and the West2
JOI volume 18 issue 6 Cover and Front matter2
JOI volume 18 issue 4 Cover and Front matter2
Mapping inflation to economic freedom in the post-COVID era2
Debt restrictions and municipal indebtedness in American cities: evidence from the Roaring Twenties2
The labor-managed firm, Oliver Williamson, and me2
The old boy network: are the professional networks of female executives less effective than men's for advancing their careers?1
Containment or bad detection? Poor state capacity implications on reported Covid-19 cases1
JOI volume 17 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
Individualism, universalism and climate change1
Introduction to the symposium on ‘crisis and persistence: dynamics of institutional changes at the interface between formal and informal institutions’1
Ancestral institutions and the salience of African ethnicity: Theory and Evidence1
Repugnance and institutions: an introductory essay1
Religion without doctrine or clergy: the case of Ancient Greece1
The authors of economics journals revisited: evidence from a large-scale replication of Hodgson and Rothman (1999)1
Economic analyses of repugnant market transactions: a modest typology1
Toward an economic theory of customary measurement1
Repugnant innovation1
The Black Mouth Society and governance on the Great Plains1
Coproduction and the crafting of cognitive institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic1
Introduction to the special issue on the Centenary of Frank H. Knight's Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit1
Worker takeovers: a comparative analysis of employee buyouts, other worker-managed firms, and conventional firms in Uruguay1
Resolving Douglass C. North's ‘puzzle’ concerning China's household responsibility system1
Integrating variable risk preferences, trust, and transaction cost economics – 25 years on: reflections in memory of Oliver Williamson1
JOI volume 17 issue 5 Cover and Front matter1
Conceptualizing the fiscal state: implications for sub-Saharan Africa1
Where lies the bundle of sticks? A comment on Bart Wilson's ‘The Primacy of Property’1
Bet against yourself: integrating insurance and entrepreneurship1
Geographical indications as global knowledge commons: Ostrom's law on common intellectual property and collective action1
Property rights rule: comments on Bart Wilson's ‘The primacy of property; Or, the subordination of property rights’1
Institutions and tax capacity in sub-Saharan Africa1
Corporate hierarchies and workplace voice1
JOI volume 17 issue 6 Cover and Front matter1
Theory in closer contact with industrial life: American institutional economists on competition theory and policy1
Inclusive national innovation systems: rethinking institutions in the light of inclusion imperatives1
Diversified firms: existence and behaviors1
JOI volume 18 issue 1 Cover and Back matter1
Markets, repugnance, and externalities1
JOI volume 18 issue 1 Cover and Front matter1
Do religious beliefs matter for economic values?1
Making ideas actionable in institutionalism: the case of trade liberalization in Kennedy's foreign economic policy1
Currency regimes and external competitiveness: the role of institutions, trade agreements and monetary frameworks1
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