OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Economic Modelling is 44. 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
Is gold a hedge or a safe-haven asset in the COVID–19 crisis?	294
ICT diffusion, financial development, and economic growth: An international cross-country analysis	249
Impact of the digital economy on high-quality urban economic development: Evidence from Chinese cities	223
Economic policy uncertainty and financial stability–Is there a relation?	190
Can enterprise digitization improve ESG performance?	180
Market-based environmental regulation and total factor productivity: Evidence from Chinese enterprises	177
Economic growth, corruption, and financial development: Global evidence	144
The static and dynamic connectedness of environmental, social, and governance investments: International evidence	139
Foreign direct investment and economic growth: Is more financial development better?	113
The joint spillover index	112
Policy-related risk and corporate financing behavior: Evidence from China’s listed companies	99
BitCoin: A new basket for eggs?	87
Revisiting the roles of cryptocurrencies in stock markets: A quantile coherency perspective	86
Carbon emissions and default risk: International evidence from firm-level data	84
Financial inclusion and agricultural total factor productivity growth in China	83
Public debt and economic growth in developing countries: Nonlinearity and threshold analysis	82
Research on the influence of manufacturing agglomeration modes on regional carbon emission and spatial effect in China	81
Does carbon control policy risk affect corporate ESG performance?	75
Quantile spillovers and dependence between Bitcoin, equities and strategic commodities	71
The link between intellectual property rights, innovation, and growth: A meta-analysis	67
Does non-fundamental news related to COVID-19 matter for stock returns? Evidence from Shanghai stock market	66
Being nice to stakeholders: The effect of economic policy uncertainty on corporate social responsibility	64
ESG and firm performance: The role of size and media channels	63
Uncertainty, financial development, and FDI inflows: Global evidence	62
Is uncertainty the same everywhere? Advanced versus emerging economies	62

How does government intervention affect the formation of zombie firms?	61
Economic policy uncertainty and green innovation: Evidence from China	60
Country governance, corruption, and the likelihood of firms’ innovation	60
Does environmental regulation promote enterprise profitability? Evidence from the implementation of China's newly revised Environmental Protection Law	60
Can human development and political stability improve environmental quality? New evidence from the MENA region	55
The role of robot adoption in green innovation: Evidence from China	55
Returns and volume: Frequency connectedness in cryptocurrency markets	53
Does retail investor attention improve stock liquidity? A dynamic perspective	52
Environmental decentralization and innovation in China	51
How diversification affects bank performance: The role of human capital	49
Can government improve tax compliance by adopting advanced information technology? Evidence from the Golden Tax Project III in China	48
Does artificial intelligence affect the pattern of skill demand? Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms	48
How do zombie firms affect China’s industrial upgrading?	47
A new comprehensive database of financial crises: Identification, frequency, and duration	47
Explain or conceal? Causal language intensity in annual report and stock price crash risk	47
Effect of financial development on innovation: Roles of market institutions	46
Foreign aid volatility and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Does institutional quality matter?	46
How does producer services’ agglomeration promote carbon reduction?: The case of China	45
The long and short-term effects of environmental tax on energy efficiency: Perspective of OECD energy tax and vehicle traffic tax	44
Business strategy, corporate social responsibility, and within-firm pay gap	44