OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Research in International Business and Finance is 54. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Internal control opinion shopping: Does initial audit fee discounting matter?	334
Analyst optimism and market sentiment: Evidence from European corporate sustainability reporters	268
Emerging market multinationals’ pursuit of strategic assets through cross-border acquisitions	206
Has FinTech changed the sensitivity of corporate investment to interest rates?—Evidence from China	152
Factorial asset pricing models using statistical anomalies	144
Asset encumbrance in banks: Is systemic risk affected?	126
Performance of ESG-integrated smart beta strategies in Asia-Pacific stock markets	121
COVID-19, a blessing in disguise for the Tech sector: Evidence from stock price crash risk	117
ESG leaders and crypto currency market: Asymmetric TVP-VAR connectedness and investment approaches	116
Related party lending and rural bank risk: Evidence during the Covid-19 period	115
Corporate governance, fraud learning cycles, and financial fraud detection: Evidence from Chinese listed firms	101
Extreme return connectedness among renewable energy and rare earth markets: The role of global factors	100
Can non-punitive regulation curb corporate greenwashing?Evidence from a word embedding model	100
Are institutional investors effective monitors in a country where closely held firms predominate? Insights from agency problem-driven dividend payouts	99
Perceived vs actual financial crisis and bank credit standards: Is there any indication of self-fulfilling prophecy?	97
Are real interest rates a monetary phenomenon? Evidence from 700 years of data	94
The effects of portfolio rebalancing strategies on the performance of global mutual funds	93
Existence of long memory in crude oil and petroleum products: Generalised Hurst exponent approach	92
Does market microstructure affect time-varying efficiency? Evidence from emerging markets	92
ESG news and firm value: Evidence from China’s automation of pollution monitoring	88
Digital finance, institutional quality, and air pollution: Evidence from China	88
Understanding the impact of the financial technology revolution on systemic risk: Evidence from US and EU diversified financials	86
Impact of the Covid-19 induced panic on the Environmental, Social and Governance leaders equity volatility: A time-frequency analysis	86
Family firms and the cost of borrowing: empirical evidence from East Asia	84
The logics of sovereign credit ratings in developed and developing countries	82

Monetary policy and currency variance risk premia	82
Traders’ motivation and hedging pressure in commodity futures markets	79
The impact of insider-appointment on the fulfillment of M&A performance commitments: Based on the power-responsibility paradox	77
EU-27 bank failure prediction with C5.0 decision trees and deep learning neural networks	77
ESG reputational risk and market valuation: Evidence from the European banking industry	76
Artificial intelligence, digital transformation and cybersecurity in the banking sector: A multi-stakeholder cognition-driven framework	76
Accounting for digital currencies	74
Controlling shareholder’s escape threat: Foreign residency rights and stock price crash risk	74
Quantile connectedness between Chinese stock and commodity futures markets	74
Credit risk prediction based on loan profit: Evidence from Chinese SMEs	73
Connectedness and systemic risk between FinTech and traditional financial stocks: Implications for portfolio diversification	72
Navigating sustainable finance: Examining the impact of sustainable credit policy on energy consumption intensity	71
Unpacking energy consumption in China's urbanization: Industry development, population growth, and spatial expansion	69
Asymmetric dynamics between geopolitical conflict sentiment and cryptomarkets	68
Impact of corporate philanthropy on firm performance: The moderating role of board structure	64
Global economic uncertainty and the Chinese stock market: Assessing the impacts of global indicators	62
Editorial Board	60
Vulnerability of financial markets in India: The contagious effect of COVID-19	60
Do investors listen? Exploring the effect of investor relationship management on firm-specific stock return variation	60
Can CFOs improve enterprise loan bargaining power? An empirical analysis based on CFO characteristics	60
Sports failures and stock returns between rationality and emotionality: Evidence from the UEFA Champions League	59
Financial inclusion, digital technology, and economic growth: Further evidence	59
FinTech and unemployment: New evidence on the role of labor market regulation	59
Institutional investors, heterogeneity, and capital structure decisions: Evidence from an emerging market	57
How do Chinese urban investment bonds affect its economic resilience? Evidence from double machine learning	57
Does Confucian culture affect shadow banking activities? Evidence from Chinese listed companies	57
Guarantee requirements by European central counterparties and international volatility spillovers	57
Revisiting asset co-movement: Does network topology really matter?	56
Why do entrepreneurial firms switch lead venture capital? A double-sided matching perspective	55
Bank equity returns and oil prices: The story from U.S. regional banks during the “shale oil” revolution	54