OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Economics is 31. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Managing Retirement Incomes	228
Political Inequality	137
How to Rebuild Ukraine: A Synthesis and Critical Review of Policy Proposals	132
The Economic Impact of Internet Connectivity in Developing Countries	115
How to Run Surveys: A Guide to Creating Your Own Identifying Variation and Revealing the Invisible	114
What Shapes the Quality and Behavior of Government Officials? Institutional Variation in Selection and Retention Methods	113
Between Government and Market: The Political Economics of Labor Unions	106
Spatial Sorting and Inequality	93
Bureaucracy and Development	77
Experiments About Institutions	63
Biodiversity: A Conversation with Sir Partha Dasgupta	62
The Great Divide: Education, Despair, and Death	62
Fiscal Federalism in the Twenty-First Century	60
The Blossoming of Economic Epidemiology	59
Enough Potential Repudiation: Economic and Legal Aspects of Sovereign Debt in the Pandemic Era	58
Tertiarization Like China	56
Unified Growth Theory: Roots of Growth and Inequality in the Wealth of Nations	55
Central Bank Independence: Views from History and Machine Learning	51
Fertility in High-Income Countries: Trends, Patterns, Determinants, and Consequences	50
Household Financial Transaction Data	49
The Macroeconomics of Financial Speculation	47
Expecting Brexit	43
From Happiness Data to Economic Conclusions	39
Competition and the Industrial Challenge for the Digital Age	38
Global Capital Allocation	36

Lessons from US–China Trade Relations	36
Understanding Spatial Agglomeration: Increasing Returns, Land, and Transportation Costs	34
The Past and Future of Economic Growth: A Semi-Endogenous Perspective	33
Learning From Ricardo and Thompson: Machinery and Labor in the Early Industrial Revolution and in the Age of Artificial Intelligence	32
Regulating Collusion	32
Measuring the Costs and Benefits of Regulation	32
Regression Discontinuity Designs	31
A Helicopter Tour of Some Underlying Issues in Empirical Industrial Organization	31