OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Institutional Economics is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Divergence before the division: the colonial origins of separate development paths in Korea	27
The limits of generality for constitutional design	23
Measuring open access orders	20
Repugnance, externalities and subjectivism: a comment on Krawiec	16
A further reply to Jean-Philippe Robé on the firm	12
JOI volume 18 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	12
The economic institutions of artificial intelligence	11
Pre-colonial centralization and tax compliance norms in contemporary Uganda	11
Ideas, institutions, and incompleteness	11
Comparing Ostrom's design principles to Habraken's open-building framework: disentangling a polycentric built environment	11
JOI volume 17 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	10
Why is there property? A response to Professor Wilson	10
Towards polycentric federalism: assessing federal institutional design in multiethnic African states	10
The economics of cognitive institutions: mapping debates, looking ahead	9
Exchanges with and without the sword: slavery, politics-as-exchange and freedom in James M. Buchanan's institutional economics	9
On mechanisms of meritocratic recruitment: competence and impartiality	9
Property rights aren't primary; ideas are	9
Introduction to the symposium on institutional analysis, market processes, and interdisciplinary social science	7
Problematizing state capacity: the Rwandan case	7
Yoram Barzel: commemorating the life of an institutional economist	7
Formal and informal institutions: some problems of meaning, impact, and interaction	7
Formal and informal institutions: understanding the shadow economy in transition countries	7
Choice of slavery institutions in Ancient Greece: Athenian chattels and Spartan helots	6
Do human capital and institutional quality contribute to Brazil's long term real convergence/divergence process? A Markov regime-switching autoregressive approach	6
JOI volume 17 issue 6 Cover and Back matter	6

Analyzing institutional changes in community-based management: a case study of a participatory guarantee system for organic labeling in Brazil	6
JOI volume 18 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	6
The paradox of effective altruism	5
Understanding Masahiko Aoki’s comparative institutional analysis	5
Determinants of social norms I – the role of geography	5
Constraints on the executive and tax revenues in the long run	5
On the adapting function of social institutions	5
Career lessons from economists’ life stories: Brian J. Loasby as an Exemplar	5
Firms versus corporations: a rebuttal of Simon Deakin, David Gindis, and Geoffrey M. Hodgson	5
Introduction to the special issue on institutions and culture in economic contexts	5
No taxation without state-assigned property rights: formalization of individual property rights on land and taxation in sub-Saharan Africa	4
The dynamic efficiency of gifting	4
Towards a realistic view of consumer behaviour	4
JOI volume 18 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	4
Heterogeneous effects of economic freedom on human capital in developing countries	4
Rule of law as a determinant of the export performance of Italian provinces	4
Elinor Ostrom on choice, collective action and rationality: a Senian analysis	4
The institutional environment and gig platform transaction cost solutions	4
Institutions and industry-level employment creation: an empirical analysis of the US metro-level data	4
Liability for robots II: an economic analysis	3
Governing entrepreneurial opportunities: a discriminating alignment approach	3
Managing repugnance: how core-stigma shapes firm behavior	3
Measuring economic freedom during the Covid-19 pandemic	3
A polycentric approach for pandemic governance: nested externalities and co-production challenges	3
Liberal egalitarian justice in the distribution of a common output. Experimental evidence and implications for effective institution design – ERRATUM	3
Editorial report 2022	3
Economic freedom improves income mobility: evidence from Canadian provinces, 1982–2018	3
Shocking resilience? Effects of extreme events on constitutional compliance	3
Individual trust and quality of regional government	3
Late colonial antecedents of modern democracy	3
JOI volume 18 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	3
Corruption and informal practices in the Middle East and North Africa: a pooled cross-sectional analysis	3
To what extent do institutional arrangements shape the excludability of resource systems? Lessons from French farms	3
‘It was organized from the bottom’: the response from community-based institutions during the 2014 Ebola epidemic	3
Institutional resilience: how the formal legal system sustains informal cooperation	3