OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Research in International Business and Finance is 48. 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
Stock markets’ reaction to COVID-19: Cases or fatalities?	766
Are cryptocurrencies a safe haven for equity markets? An international perspective from the COVID-19 pandemic	386
Can fintech improve the efficiency of commercial banks? —An analysis based on big data	193
ESG disclosure and Firm performance: A bibliometric and meta analysis	183
Innovation as recovery strategy for SMEs in emerging economies during the COVID-19 pandemic	173
Artificial intelligence and machine learning in finance: A bibliometric review	146
COVID-19, government policy responses, and stock market liquidity around the world: A note	134
The impact of COVID-19 on the stock market crash risk in China	118
A systematic review of the bubble dynamics of cryptocurrency prices	109
Impact of COVID-19 on stock market efficiency: Evidence from developed countries	93
Does COVID-19 open a Pandora's box of changing the connectedness in energy commodities?	93
On the nonlinear relationship between energy use and CO2 emissions within an EKC framework: Evidence from panel smooth transition regression in the MENA region	91
Are stablecoins truly diversifiers, hedges, or safe havens against traditional cryptocurrencies as their name suggests?	87
Trade credit research before and after the global financial crisis of 2008 – A bibliometric overview	87
Does economic policy uncertainty affect cryptocurrency markets? Evidence from Twitter-based uncertainty measures	87
A bibliometric analysis of ESG performance in the banking industry: From the current status to future directions	85
Corporate Social Responsibility Amid Social Distancing During the COVID-19 Crisis: BRICS vs. OECD Countries	81
How do financial globalization, institutions and economic growth impact financial sector development in European countries?	77
Did COVID-19 change spillover patterns between Fintech and other asset classes?	77
Oil prices and economic policy uncertainty: Evidence from global, oil importers, and exporters’ perspective	76
Blockchain in banking and finance: A bibliometric review	76
Return and volatility spillovers between energy and BRIC markets: Evidence from quantile connectedness	76
How does corporate social responsibility affect financial performance, financial stability, and financial inclusion in the banking sector? Evidence from Pakistan	75
In search of safe haven assets during COVID-19 pandemic: An empirical analysis of different investor types	72
Volatility spillover between economic sectors in financial crisis prediction: Evidence spanning the great financial crisis and Covid-19 pandemic	67

Financial crises and the dynamics of the spillovers between the U.S. and BRICS stock markets	67
The historic oil price fluctuation during the Covid-19 pandemic: What are the causes?	67
Impact of the Covid-19 induced panic on the Environmental, Social and Governance leaders equity volatility: A time-frequency analysis	66
Can FinTech improve corporate investment efficiency? Evidence from China	66
Twitter-Based uncertainty and cryptocurrency returns	65
Banking sector reactions to COVID-19: The role of bank-specific factors and government policy responses	63
Does the porter hypothesis work well in the emission trading schema pilot? Exploring moderating effects of institutional settings	61
The impact of digital transformation of manufacturing on corporate performance — The mediating effect of business model innovation and the moderating effect of innovation capability	61
A firefly algorithm modified support vector machine for the credit risk assessment of supply chain finance	61
Does low-carbon pilot city program reduce carbon intensity? Evidence from Chinese cities	58
Central Bank Digital Currencies: Agendas for future research	57
Nonlinear dynamic correlation between geopolitical risk and oil prices: A study based on high-frequency data	56
The COVID-19 black swan crisis: Reaction and recovery of various financial markets	56
COVID-19 Sentiment and the Chinese Stock Market: Evidence from the Official News Media and Sina Weibo	54
ESG disclosure and technological innovation capabilities of the Chinese listed companies	54
Comparing COVID-19 with the GFC: A shockwave analysis of currency markets	51
Machine learning sentiment analysis, COVID-19 news and stock market reactions	50
COVID-19 pandemic and economic policy uncertainty: The first test on the hedging and safe haven properties of cryptocurrencies	50
Asymmetric effect of COVID-19 pandemic on E7 stock indices: Evidence from quantile-on-quantile regression approach	50
Financing constraints and firm-level responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: International evidence	49
The impact of government environmental attention on firms’ ESG performance: Evidence from China	49
Green bond issuance and corporate ESG performance: Steps toward green and low-carbon development	48
Volatility communicator or receiver? Investigating volatility spillover mechanisms among Bitcoin and other financial markets	48