OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Research in International Business and Finance is 59. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Extreme return connectedness among renewable energy and rare earth markets: The role of global factors	467
Editorial Board	357
Are real interest rates a monetary phenomenon? Evidence from 700 years of data	193
Related party lending and rural bank risk: Evidence during the Covid-19 period	192
Monetary policy and currency variance risk premia	163
The logics of sovereign credit ratings in developed and developing countries	161
Controlling shareholder’s escape threat: Foreign residency rights and stock price crash risk	152
Bubbles, crashes, and financial market contagion: Evidence from G7 economies	144
COVID-19, a blessing in disguise for the Tech sector: Evidence from stock price crash risk	139
Corrigendum to “Carbon pricing and sovereign credit risk: A threshold analysis of policy design and economic structure for climate-fiscal resilience” [Res. Int. Bus. Financ. 81 (2025) 103197]	135
U.S.–China relations and cross-border capital flows: Is digital technology a “Buffer” or a “Booster”?	131
Internal control opinion shopping: Does initial audit fee discounting matter?	129
Corporate venture capital and firm productivity: Evidence from China	116
Carbon emissions and discontinued operations	115
Asymmetric dynamics between geopolitical conflict sentiment and cryptomarkets	111
The impact of insider-appointment on the fulfillment of M&A performance commitments: Based on the power-responsibility paradox	110
Are institutional investors effective monitors in a country where closely held firms predominate? Insights from agency problem-driven dividend payouts	109
Credit risk prediction based on loan profit: Evidence from Chinese SMEs	107
Connectedness and systemic risk between FinTech and traditional financial stocks: Implications for portfolio diversification	100
Understanding the impact of the financial technology revolution on systemic risk: Evidence from US and EU diversified financials	100
ESG leaders and crypto currency market: Asymmetric TVP-VAR connectedness and investment approaches	95
Global economic uncertainty and the Chinese stock market: Assessing the impacts of global indicators	91
Analyst optimism and market sentiment: Evidence from European corporate sustainability reporters	90
Impact of corporate philanthropy on firm performance: The moderating role of board structure	85
Does fintech drive sustainability? Insights from clean energy and global partnerships	83

Quantile connectedness between Chinese stock and commodity futures markets	83
The effects of portfolio rebalancing strategies on the performance of global mutual funds	82
Digital finance, institutional quality, and air pollution: Evidence from China	80
Can non-punitive regulation curb corporate greenwashing?Evidence from a word embedding model	79
ESG news and firm value: Evidence from China’s automation of pollution monitoring	76
Corporate governance, fraud learning cycles, and financial fraud detection: Evidence from Chinese listed firms	75
Emerging market multinationals’ pursuit of strategic assets through cross-border acquisitions	74
Does market microstructure affect time-varying efficiency? Evidence from emerging markets	74
Navigating sustainable finance: Examining the impact of sustainable credit policy on energy consumption intensity	73
EU-27 bank failure prediction with C5.0 decision trees and deep learning neural networks	73
Unraveling the phenomenon of Born Globals from emerging markets: a systematic literature review and research agenda	72
Accounting for digital currencies	72
Asset encumbrance in banks: Is systemic risk affected?	72
Unpacking energy consumption in China's urbanization: Industry development, population growth, and spatial expansion	71
Has FinTech changed the sensitivity of corporate investment to interest rates?—Evidence from China	71
Performance of ESG-integrated smart beta strategies in Asia-Pacific stock markets	70
ESG reputational risk and market valuation: Evidence from the European banking industry	70
Editorial Board	68
Are stock markets efficient with respect to the Google search volume index? A robustness check of the literature studies	67
Why do entrepreneurial firms switch lead venture capital? A double-sided matching perspective	65
Nurturing finance and harvesting intelligence: The green growth of urban industrial intelligence fueled by green finance	65
Market response to environmental social and governance performance: A global analysis	64
A sparsity algorithm for finding optimal counterfactual explanations: Application to corporate credit rating	64
The effects of regulatory mechanism on enterprise carbon reduction policies	64
How does climate risk affect corporate financialization?	63
The takeover Tango: Unraveling the impact of state-owned enterprise acquisitions on American competitors	63
Does common ownership affect stock price synchronicity?	62
Predicting financial cycles with dynamic ensemble selection frameworks using leading, coincident and lagging indicators	61
The digital economy and entrepreneurial dynamics: An empirical analysis of urban regions in China	60
Dynamic risk and hedging strategies in post-COVID digital asset sectors	60
Financial inclusion, digital technology, and economic growth: Further evidence	60
How do Chinese urban investment bonds affect its economic resilience? Evidence from double machine learning	60
Guarantee requirements by European central counterparties and international volatility spillovers	59
Revisiting asset co-movement: Does network topology really matter?	59