OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Institutional Economics is 5. 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
Comparing Ostrom's design principles to Habraken's open-building framework: disentangling a polycentric built environment	16
The economic institutions of artificial intelligence	16
Institutional trust and the confiscation of real estate assets from organised crime	16
Ideas, institutions, and incompleteness	15
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
Pre-colonial centralization and tax compliance norms in contemporary Uganda	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
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
Formal and informal institutions: understanding the shadow economy in transition countries	10
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
AI adoption in bureaucracies	9
Choice of slavery institutions in Ancient Greece: Athenian chattels and Spartan helots	8
Do human capital and institutional quality contribute to Brazil's long term real convergence/divergence process? A Markov regime-switching autoregressive approach	8

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
Sludge, transaction benefits, and cognitive institutions	7
The paradox of effective altruism	7
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
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
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
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