OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Institutional Economics is 4. 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
Measuring open access orders	16
Integrity as a bonding mechanism in agency theory	16
Institutional trust and the confiscation of real estate assets from organised crime	15
Comparing Ostrom's design principles to Habraken's open-building framework: disentangling a polycentric built environment	13
The economic institutions of artificial intelligence	13
Pre-colonial centralization and tax compliance norms in contemporary Uganda	13
Why is there property? A response to Professor Wilson	12
Ideas, institutions, and incompleteness	12
AI adoption in bureaucracies	11
Property rights aren't primary; ideas are	11
Towards polycentric federalism: assessing federal institutional design in multiethnic African states	11
Exchanges with and without the sword: slavery, politics-as-exchange and freedom in James M. Buchanan's institutional economics	10
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
On mechanisms of meritocratic recruitment: competence and impartiality	9
Formal and informal institutions: some problems of meaning, impact, and interaction	8
The economics of cognitive institutions: mapping debates, looking ahead	8
Formal and informal institutions: understanding the shadow economy in transition countries	8
Do human capital and institutional quality contribute to Brazil's long term real convergence/divergence process? A Markov regime-switching autoregressive approach	7
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
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
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
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
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
Governing entrepreneurial opportunities: a discriminating alignment approach	4
Norms are relational: cognitive institutions, practices, and the ‘where’ question	4
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