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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The corruption–growth relationship: does the political regime matter?	36
Determinants of institutional trust: the role of cultural context	28
Commemorating Geert Hofstede, a pioneer in the study of culture and institutions	26
Hybrids: where are we?	22
A polycentric approach for pandemic governance: nested externalities and co-production challenges	22
Uncertainty and dispute resolution for blockchain and smart contract institutions	17
Individualism and attitudes towards reporting corruption: evidence from post-communist economies	16
Response to governmental COVID-19 restrictions: the role of informal institutions	16
Institutional quality and the capital structure of microfinance institutions: the moderating role of board gender diversity	15
Institutions, uncertainty, and entrepreneurial judgment	15
From hierarchies to markets and partially back again in electricity: responding to decarbonization and security of supply goals	14
Corruption and SME growth: the roles of institutional networking and financial slack	14
Is tax morale culturally driven?	14
Blockchain networks as constitutional and competitive polycentric orders	14
Frank Knight, uncertainty and knowledge spillover entrepreneurship	13
The chronic uncertainty of American Indian property rights	12
Economic freedom improves income mobility: evidence from Canadian provinces, 1982–2018	11
The origins of the state: technology, cooperation and institutions	10
Mental models and institutional inertia	9
Who are the champions? Inequality, economic freedom and the Olympics	9
Knight, financial institutions, and entrepreneurship in developing economies	9
Testing Todd: family types and development	9
Coproduction and the crafting of cognitive institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
The primacy of property; or, the subordination of property rights	8
Commemorating Oliver Williamson, a founding father of transaction cost economics	8

Community policing on American Indian reservations: a preliminary investigation	8
Laissez les bons temps rouler? The persistent effect French civil law has on corruption, institutions, and incomes in Louisiana	8
Crafting of cognitive institutions for overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Measuring economic freedom during the Covid-19 pandemic	8
Formal and informal institutions: understanding the shadow economy in transition countries	8
Coevolving institutions and the paradox of informal constraints	8
The market as a process for the discovery of whom not to trust	7
Atmosphere, private ordering, and industrial pluralism: Williamson's evolving science of organization	7
The value of political connections: evidence from China's anti-corruption campaign	7
Liability for robots I: legal challenges	7
On legal bubbles: some thoughts on legal shockwaves at the core of the digital economy	7
Beyond behaviorism, positivism, and neo-institutionalism in economics: a conversation with Deirdre Nansen McCloskey	6
Let's do it Frank's way: general principles and historical specificity in the study of entrepreneurship	6
Introduction to the special issue on the Centenary of Frank H. Knight's Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit	6
Liability for robots II: an economic analysis	6
Creativity and security as a cultural recipe for entrepreneurship	6
Markets, repugnance, and externalities	6
Sorting out the aid–corruption nexus	6
Innovation, on-the-job learning, and labor contracts: an organizational equilibria approach	5
Oliver Williamson: a Hero's journey on the merits	5
Post-Northian institutional economics: a research agenda for cognitive institutions	5
What is a firm? A reply to Jean-Philippe Robé	5
Culture and institutions: a review of Joel Mokyr'sA Culture of Growth	5
Analyzing institutional changes in community-based management: a case study of a participatory guarantee system for organic labeling in Brazil	5
Financial constraint, trust, and export performances: firm-level evidence from Africa	5
Resilience to economic shrinking in an emerging economy: the role of social capabilities in Indonesia, 1950–2015	5
Deals that start when you sign them	5
Austrian behavioral economics	5
The labor-managed firm, Oliver Williamson, and me	4
Hayek's extended mind: on the (im)possibility of Austrian behavioural economics	4
The impact of economic institutions on government policy: does contract-intensive economy promote impartial governance?	4
Institutions and tax capacity in sub-Saharan Africa	4
Financial institutions and the British Industrial Revolution: did financial underdevelopment hold back growth?	4
A time to throw stones, a time to reap: how long does it take for democratic transitions to improve institutional outcomes?	4
Bet against yourself: integrating insurance and entrepreneurship	4
Differences in African banking systems: causes and consequences	4
The dynamic efficiency of gifting	4
Economic freedom reform: does culture matter?	4
Frontier academic research in OECD countries: the role of institutional factors	4
Individual trust and quality of regional government	4
Exchanges with and without the sword: slavery, politics-as-exchange and freedom in James M. Buchanan's institutional economics	4
Geographical indications as global knowledge commons: Ostrom's law on common intellectual property and collective action	4
Institutions, ideas and economic change: some reflections on Geoffrey Hodgson's ‘Culture and Institutions’	4