OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Research in International Business and Finance is 63. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	482
Are real interest rates a monetary phenomenon? Evidence from 700 years of data	384
Related party lending and rural bank risk: Evidence during the Covid-19 period	208
Monetary policy and currency variance risk premia	197
The logics of sovereign credit ratings in developed and developing countries	172
Controlling shareholder’s escape threat: Foreign residency rights and stock price crash risk	168
Bubbles, crashes, and financial market contagion: Evidence from G7 economies	162
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]	151
COVID-19, a blessing in disguise for the Tech sector: Evidence from stock price crash risk	151
U.S.–China relations and cross-border capital flows: Is digital technology a “Buffer” or a “Booster”?	140
Corporate venture capital and firm productivity: Evidence from China	135
Internal control opinion shopping: Does initial audit fee discounting matter?	135
Emerging market multinationals’ pursuit of strategic assets through cross-border acquisitions	129
Navigating sustainable finance: Examining the impact of sustainable credit policy on energy consumption intensity	122
EU-27 bank failure prediction with C5.0 decision trees and deep learning neural networks	120
Unraveling the phenomenon of Born Globals from emerging markets: a systematic literature review and research agenda	120
Carbon emissions and discontinued operations	115
Asset encumbrance in banks: Is systemic risk affected?	115
Asymmetric dynamics between geopolitical conflict sentiment and cryptomarkets	115
The impact of insider-appointment on the fulfillment of M&A performance commitments: Based on the power-responsibility paradox	106
Are institutional investors effective monitors in a country where closely held firms predominate? Insights from agency problem-driven dividend payouts	105
Global economic uncertainty and the Chinese stock market: Assessing the impacts of global indicators	104
Impact of corporate philanthropy on firm performance: The moderating role of board structure	93
Does fintech drive sustainability? Insights from clean energy and global partnerships	93
The effects of portfolio rebalancing strategies on the performance of global mutual funds	91

Performance of ESG-integrated smart beta strategies in Asia-Pacific stock markets	87
Digital finance, institutional quality, and air pollution: Evidence from China	87
Unpacking energy consumption in China's urbanization: Industry development, population growth, and spatial expansion	86
Has FinTech changed the sensitivity of corporate investment to interest rates?—Evidence from China	86
ESG news and firm value: Evidence from China’s automation of pollution monitoring	84
Accounting for digital currencies	83
Vertical institutional ownership and analyst forecast bias: Evidence from industry chain equity linkages	82
Corporate governance, fraud learning cycles, and financial fraud detection: Evidence from Chinese listed firms	80
ESG leaders and crypto currency market: Asymmetric TVP-VAR connectedness and investment approaches	80
Analyst optimism and market sentiment: Evidence from European corporate sustainability reporters	79
Credit risk prediction based on loan profit: Evidence from Chinese SMEs	78
Does market microstructure affect time-varying efficiency? Evidence from emerging markets	76
Understanding the impact of the financial technology revolution on systemic risk: Evidence from US and EU diversified financials	76
Can non-punitive regulation curb corporate greenwashing?Evidence from a word embedding model	75
ESG reputational risk and market valuation: Evidence from the European banking industry	75
Quantile connectedness between Chinese stock and commodity futures markets	74
Extreme return connectedness among renewable energy and rare earth markets: The role of global factors	73
Connectedness and systemic risk between FinTech and traditional financial stocks: Implications for portfolio diversification	73
Editorial Board	71
Why do entrepreneurial firms switch lead venture capital? A double-sided matching perspective	69
Are stock markets efficient with respect to the Google search volume index? A robustness check of the literature studies	69
The takeover Tango: Unraveling the impact of state-owned enterprise acquisitions on American competitors	68
The effects of regulatory mechanism on enterprise carbon reduction policies	68
Market response to environmental social and governance performance: A global analysis	68
Does common ownership affect stock price synchronicity?	67
Guarantee requirements by European central counterparties and international volatility spillovers	66
Revisiting asset co-movement: Does network topology really matter?	66
The effect of the 2008–09 short selling sales ban on UK security equities in relation to market metrics of volatility, liquidity, and price discovery	66
Dynamic risk and hedging strategies in post-COVID digital asset sectors	66
Hedge funds and sentiment-induced overpricing: Arbitrageurs or speculators?	65
Influence of social sustainable development goals sentiment on listed companies	65
How do deep-level and surface-level board diversity affect bank risk?	65
FinTech and unemployment: New evidence on the role of labor market regulation	64
Precious metals and currency markets during the Russia-Ukraine conflict’s inflationary periods	64
Trade credit financing, social trust, and financial distress: Evidence from Chinese listed companies	64
The motivations and influencing factors of share pledging: An analysis of pledging and trading strategies	63
Analysing and forecasting co-movement between innovative and traditional financial assets based on complex network and machine learning	63
Bank equity returns and oil prices: The story from U.S. regional banks during the “shale oil” revolution	63