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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Divergence before the division: the colonial origins of separate development paths in Korea	38
List of Referees	24
Repugnance, externalities and subjectivism: a comment on Krawiec	20
The limits of generality for constitutional design	19
Integrity as a bonding mechanism in agency theory	16
Measuring open access orders	16
Institutional trust and the confiscation of real estate assets from organised crime	15
The economic institutions of artificial intelligence	13
Pre-colonial centralization and tax compliance norms in contemporary Uganda	13
Comparing Ostrom's design principles to Habraken's open-building framework: disentangling a polycentric built environment	13
Ideas, institutions, and incompleteness	12
Why is there property? A response to Professor Wilson	12
Property rights aren't primary; ideas are	11
Towards polycentric federalism: assessing federal institutional design in multiethnic African states	11
AI adoption in bureaucracies	11
Social debt and the quasi-contract: the solidarism of Léon Bourgeois as a form of liberal solidarity	10
Problematizing state capacity: the Rwandan case	10
Exchanges with and without the sword: slavery, politics-as-exchange and freedom in James M. Buchanan's institutional economics	10
On mechanisms of meritocratic recruitment: competence and impartiality	9
The economics of cognitive institutions: mapping debates, looking ahead	8
Formal and informal institutions: understanding the shadow economy in transition countries	8
Formal and informal institutions: some problems of meaning, impact, and interaction	8
Choice of slavery institutions in Ancient Greece: Athenian chattels and Spartan helots	7
Yoram Barzel: commemorating the life of an institutional economist	7
Sludge, transaction benefits, and cognitive institutions	7

Do human capital and institutional quality contribute to Brazil's long term real convergence/divergence process? A Markov regime-switching autoregressive approach	7
Trust in government, institutional quality and the perception of water services	6
Understanding Masahiko Aoki’s comparative institutional analysis	6
Property versus possession, ten years on: assessing the lexical impact of the 2015 JOIE debate	6
Constraints on the executive and tax revenues in the long run	6
The paradox of effective altruism	6
Career lessons from economists’ life stories: Brian J. Loasby as an Exemplar	6
Recurrent exchange rate shocks and Anfal in Iran	6
JOI volume 18 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	6
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
Towards a realistic view of consumer behaviour	5
Beyond ‘permissionless’: governance, commitment, and rule change in public blockchains	5
The words that keep people apart: official language and accountability	5
Heterogeneous effects of economic freedom on human capital in developing countries	5
The dynamic efficiency of gifting	5
Elinor Ostrom on choice, collective action and rationality: a Senian analysis	5
Banking on research: Who leads? Who follows? Who cares?	5
The institutional environment and gig platform transaction cost solutions	5
On the adapting function of social institutions	5
Institutions and industry-level employment creation: an empirical analysis of the US metro-level data	5
Losers and winners: what people think about contested-commodity transactions	4
Corruption and informal practices in the Middle East and North Africa: a pooled cross-sectional analysis	4
Rule of law as a determinant of the export performance of Italian provinces	4
To what extent do institutional arrangements shape the excludability of resource systems? Lessons from French farms	4
Managing repugnance: how core-stigma shapes firm behavior	4
JOI volume 18 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
Editorial report 2022	4
Governing entrepreneurial opportunities: a discriminating alignment approach	4
Norms are relational: cognitive institutions, practices, and the ‘where’ question	4
The Ostroms on self-governance: the importance of cybernetics	3
The past, present, and future of polycentric legal order: a comparative institutional analysis of lex mercatoria and blockchain	3
Hayek's extended mind: on the (im)possibility of Austrian behavioural economics	3
Measuring economic freedom during the Covid-19 pandemic	3
The role of reputational incentives in an international currency union: Greek monetary institutions in the classical and Hellenistic periods	3
Mapping inflation to economic freedom in the post-COVID era	3
Shocking resilience? Effects of extreme events on constitutional compliance	3
Meso-institutions: why we need them (introduction to the symposium on meso-institutions)	3
Liberal egalitarian justice in the distribution of a common output. Experimental evidence and implications for effective institution design – ERRATUM	3
‘It was organized from the bottom’: the response from community-based institutions during the 2014 Ebola epidemic	3
List of Referees	3
Frontier academic research in OECD countries: the role of institutional factors	3
Constitutional catallaxy and indigenous rights: the Australian case	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
Russia as a great power: from 1815 to the present day Part II	3
Enacting the future: institutions, temporal affordances, and the formation of expectations	3
The complementarity between automation and flexible labour contracts: firm-level evidence from Italy	3
The political economy of foreign fighter death in the Russo-Ukrainian War: the role of institutions, politics, and international trade	3
JOI volume 18 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2

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