OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Energy Economics is 99. 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
How does green finance affect green total factor productivity? Evidence from China	621
Environmental regulation, green technology innovation, and industrial structure upgrading: The road to the green transformation of Chinese cities	618
Digitalization and energy: How does internet development affect China's energy consumption?	541
Heterogeneous green innovations and carbon emission performance: Evidence at China's city level	491
How does fiscal decentralization affect CO2 emissions? The roles of institutions and human capital	441
Green technology innovation and financial development: Do environmental regulation and innovation output matter?	437
Can the green credit policy stimulate green innovation in heavily polluting enterprises? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	421
Low-carbon city pilot and carbon emission efficiency: Quasi-experimental evidence from China	350
Green credit policy, credit allocation efficiency and upgrade of energy-intensive enterprises	320
High-speed rail and CO2 emissions in urban China: A spatial difference-in-differences approach	288
What is the role of telecommunications infrastructure construction in green technology innovation? A firm-level analysis for China	288
How does internet development affect energy-saving and emission reduction? Evidence from China	281
Green credit policy and firm performance: What we learn from China	266
How does industrial structure adjustment reduce CO2 emissions? Spatial and mediation effects analysis for China	261
Economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and firm carbon emissions: Evidence using a China provincial EPU index	255
Assessing energy poverty and its effect on CO2 emissions: The case of China	251
Regional gap and the trend of green finance development in China	251
Extreme return connectedness and its determinants between clean/green and dirty energy investments	249
Assessing the digital economy and its carbon-mitigation effects: The case of China	234
Financial inclusion and energy poverty: Empirical evidence from Ghana	226
A step forward on sustainability: The nexus of environmental responsibility, green technology, clean energy and green finance	221
Climate policy uncertainty and firm-level total factor productivity: Evidence from China	207
Can digital financial inclusion affect CO2 emissions of China at the prefecture level? Evidence from a spatial econometric approach	199
World energy trilemma and transformative energy developments as determinants of economic growth amid environmental sustainability	191
Shooting two hawks with one arrow: Could China's emission trading scheme promote green development efficiency and regional carbon equality?	182

Environmental performance, green finance and green innovation: What's the long-run relationships among variables?	181
Does green finance counteract the climate change mitigation: Asymmetric effect of renewable energy investment and R&D	177
The impact of carbon emissions trading on energy efficiency: Evidence from quasi-experiment in China's carbon emissions trading pilot	167
Energy poverty, health and education outcomes: Evidence from the developing world	165
How does fiscal policy uncertainty affect corporate innovation investment? Evidence from China's new energy industry	162
Assessing the impact of digital economy on green development efficiency in the Yangtze River Economic Belt	160
How financial inclusion affects the collaborative reduction of pollutant and carbon emissions: The case of China	159
Does low-carbon energy transition mitigate energy poverty? The case of natural gas for China	156
Geopolitical risk and dynamic connectedness between commodity markets	156
The impact of growth, energy and financial development on environmental pollution in China: New evidence from a spatial econometric analysis	154
New media environment, environmental regulation and corporate green technology innovation:Evidence from China	153
Frequency connectedness and cross-quantile dependence between green bond and green equity markets	151
How effective has the low-carbon city pilot policy been as an environmental intervention in curbing pollution? Evidence from Chinese industrial enterprises	150
Assessing the impact of industrial robots on manufacturing energy intensity in 38 countries	150
Asymmetric spillover and network connectedness between crude oil, gold, and Chinese sector stock markets	149
The marginal impacts of energy prices on carbon price variations: Evidence from a quantile-on-quantile approach	146
Quantile risk spillovers between energy and agricultural commodity markets: Evidence from pre and during COVID-19 outbreak	145
Effects of government subsidies on green technology investment and green marketing coordination of supply chain under the cap-and-trade mechanism	142
Long-term macroeconomic effects of climate change: A cross-country analysis	141
The impact of foreign direct investment on China's carbon emissions through energy intensity and emissions trading system	141
Financial development, openness, innovation, carbon emissions, and economic growth in China	140
How does low-carbon energy transition alleviate energy poverty in China? A nonparametric panel causality analysis	138
Effects of financial agglomeration on green total factor productivity in Chinese cities: Insights from an empirical spatial Durbin model	137
A race between economic growth and carbon emissions: What play important roles towards global low-carbon development?	136
Is smart transportation associated with reduced carbon emissions? The case of China	135
How does China's carbon emissions trading (CET) policy affect the investment of CET-covered enterprises?	134
The internal-structural effects of different types of environmental regulations on China's green total-factor productivity	134
Impact of China's new-type urbanization on energy intensity: A city-level analysis	133
Volatility transmissions across international oil market, commodity futures and stock markets: Empirical evidence from China	133
Terrorism and green innovation in renewable energy	133
The effects of digital finance and financial constraint on financial performance: Firm-level evidence from China's new energy enterprises	132
Energy poverty and health: Panel data evidence from Australia	129
ESG scores and cost of debt	128
Do green finance and innovation matter for environmental protection? A case of OECD economies	128
Environmental tax reform and environmental investment: A quasi-natural experiment based on China's Environmental Protection Tax Law	128
How does digitalization affect energy? International evidence	126
Does public participation promote environmental efficiency? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of environmental information disclosure in China	125
Which households are more energy vulnerable? Energy poverty and financial inclusion in Turkey	125
Does digital finance promote the green innovation of China's listed companies?	124
A clean, green haven?—Examining the relationship between clean energy, clean and dirty cryptocurrencies	124
Public environmental concern, CEO turnover, and green investment: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	122
Spatial effects of industrial synergistic agglomeration and regional green development efficiency: Evidence from China	122
Energy poverty and education: Fresh evidence from a panel of developing countries	122
Green financial system regulation shock and greenwashing behaviors: Evidence from Chinese firms	121
Climate policy and low-carbon innovation: Evidence from low-carbon city pilots in China	119
How does information and communication technology affect energy security? International evidence	118
An inquiry into the nexus between energy poverty and income inequality in the light of global evidence	117
Can environmental regulation solve pollution problems? Theoretical model and empirical research based on the skill premium	116
How does carbon emission price stimulate enterprises' total factor productivity? Insights from China's emission trading scheme pilots	113
The impact of renewable energy technology innovation on energy poverty: Does climate risk matter?	112

How does population aging affect household carbon emissions? Evidence from Chinese urban and rural areas	110
Does economic growth stimulate energy consumption? The role of human capital and R&D expenditures in China	110
What are the shocks of climate change on clean energy investment: A diversified exploration	109
The rise in investors’ awareness of climate risks after the Paris Agreement and the clean energy-oil-technology prices nexus	109
Revisiting the economic growth–energy consumption nexus: Does globalization matter?	108
The impact of extreme events on energy price risk	108
Effects of trade openness on renewable energy consumption in OECD countries: New insights from panel smooth transition regression modelling	107
Energy poverty, children's wellbeing and the mediating role of academic performance: Evidence from China	107
Research on low-carbon energy transformation of China necessary to achieve the Paris agreement goals: A global perspective	106
Can the green finance policy force the green transformation of high-polluting enterprises? A quasi-natural experiment based on “Green Credit Guidelines”	106
How does ICT agglomeration affect carbon emissions? The case of Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration in China	106
The role of green financing in facilitating renewable energy transition in China: Perspectives from energy governance, environmental regulation, and market reforms	105
Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on global fossil fuel consumption and CO2 emissions	104
Extreme spillovers among fossil energy, clean energy, and metals markets: Evidence from a quantile-based analysis	103
Corporate social responsibility and bank financial performance in China: The moderating role of green credit	103
Does China's carbon emissions trading scheme affect the market power of high-carbon enterprises?	102
Is financial development beneficial to improve the efficiency of green development? Evidence from the “Belt and Road” countries	102
Hedging stocks with oil	102
Does energy accessibility improve human development? Evidence from energy-poor regions	102
Dynamic spillover effects and portfolio strategies between crude oil, gold and Chinese stock markets related to new energy vehicle	101
Nonlinear dependence and connectedness between clean/renewable energy sector equity and European emission allowance prices	100
Does ICT change the relationship between total factor productivity and CO2 emissions? Evidence based on a nonlinear model	99
Does green credit improve the core competence of commercial banks? Based on quasi-natural experiments in China	99
Exploring the dynamic connectedness among energy transition and its drivers: Understanding the moderating role of global geopolitical risk	99
The general equilibrium impacts of carbon tax policy in China: A multi-model comparison	99
How inclusive financial development eradicates energy poverty in China? The role of technological innovation	99