OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Eastern European 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Debt-Fueled Acquisitions by Non-Financial Firms Employing Bank-Associated Officers in Poland	28
Convergence of Health Expenditure and Health Outcomes in Central Europe and the Baltic Region	25
Business Sector Investment in R&D as a Factor for Improving Innovation - Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Serbia	21
Twenty-Five Years of Polish Equity Market Performance: The Questionable Force Shaping Economic Property Rights Institutions	19
Mergers & Acquisition Decisions in the Energy Sector Based on Financial Transparency and Audit Opinions	17
Is Expansion of Overeducation Cohort-Driven? Evidence from Poland	12
Subsidies and Employment: Exploring the Experience of Corporate and Family Farms in Russia	11
Assessing the Environmental Performance of Agricultural Production Using a Parametric Approach: An Application for Crop Producers in Ukraine	11
The Drivers of Employment Manufacturing Growth	11
Central Bank Communication and Financial and Macro Variables: The Case of European Inflation Targeters	9
Causal Linkages Between Patenting Abroad and Promoting FDI Through the Prism of Social Network Analysis	8
Moderating Effect of Terrorism in the Income Inequality-Military Expenditure Nexus: Evidence from Transition Economies	8
Direct Versus Indirect Exports in Post-Communist Europe and Central Asia: The Role of Innovation Activities and Internationalization	8
Persistence of PPP Deviations in Central and Eastern European Economies	7
Sidestepping the Sovereign Debt Trap? The Case of Poland	7
An Investigation of Income and Wage Inequality in Turkey Using Burgernomics	7
State-Dependent and Time-Varying Effects of Monetary Policy	6
Why Do Farmers Seek Office? Regulatory Capture in Russian Agricultural Subsidization	6
Can Structural Indicators of Trade Explain Why EU Candidate Countries Are Integrating Slowly?	6
Effects of Internal and External Factors on Economic Growth in Emerging Economies: Evidence from CEE Countries	6
Are Populists Good for Growth? The Effects of the Populist Regime in Poland, 2016–2023	6
The Value Relevance of Financial Performance and ESG Scores During Tumultuous Economic Periods	6
Foreign Ownership and Productivity: A Comparative Study of Estonia, Latvia and Norway	5
Patchwork Capitalism and Economic Development Trajectories of CEE11 Countries in 2004–2022	5
Did World War II Deaths Help Prevent Deaths from COVID-19?	4

Evaluation of the Demand for Alcoholic Beverages and Tax Policy in Turkey	4
Economic Factors as a Driving Force for Foreign Direct Investment in Serbia	4
Exchange Rates in Emerging Markets in the First Wave of the Covid-19 Pandemic	4
Corporate Investment Slowdowns in the Context of Financialization: Firm-level Evidence from Poland	4
The Proper Role of Government in Post-COVID Recovery: The Case of the Serbian Economy	4
Personality Can Mitigate the Wage Penalty of Educational Mismatch	4
Assessing the Performance of National Innovation Systems with a Helix-Based Composite Indicator: Evidence from 24 European Countries	4
The Impact of IFRS 9 Adoption on the Financial Performance and Sustainability of Romanian Credit Institutions	4
Potential Risk of Automation for Jobs in Slovakia: A District- and Industry-Level Analysis	4
Economic Growth and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Türkiye: A Meta–Regression Analysis of Empirical Evidence	4
Powering Up Child Growth: The Impact of Electricity Outages on Children’s Anthropometric Outcomes in the Kyrgyz Republic	4
Export of Travel Services in Western Balkans: A Gravity Model Approach	4
Investigating the Factors Influencing Shadow Banking in EU Member States	3
Military Conflicts and Stock Markets: The Effect of the Russia–Ukraine Conflict on the European Stock Market	3
Investigating the Determinants of the Shadow Economy: The Baltic Region	3
The Sustainability Performance of SMEs in Industry 5.0: A Proposal for a Synergetic Digital Sustainable Development Maturity Model (SDSDMM)	3
Unveiling Regional Disparities: A Comparative Analysis of Financial Inclusion Using Mahalanobis and Euclidean Distance Indices in the Case of Romania	3
Three Decades of Economic Development in Central and Eastern Europe. A Bayesian Approach to Quantifying Relevant Growth Factors	3
Race for Immunity: the Russian Stock Market during the COVID-19 Pandemic	3