OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Research in International Business and Finance is 61. 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	474
Are real interest rates a monetary phenomenon? Evidence from 700 years of data	367
Related party lending and rural bank risk: Evidence during the Covid-19 period	200
Monetary policy and currency variance risk premia	194
The logics of sovereign credit ratings in developed and developing countries	167
Controlling shareholder’s escape threat: Foreign residency rights and stock price crash risk	167
Bubbles, crashes, and financial market contagion: Evidence from G7 economies	156
COVID-19, a blessing in disguise for the Tech sector: Evidence from stock price crash risk	145
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]	144
U.S.–China relations and cross-border capital flows: Is digital technology a “Buffer” or a “Booster”?	136
Internal control opinion shopping: Does initial audit fee discounting matter?	135
Corporate venture capital and firm productivity: Evidence from China	133
Emerging market multinationals’ pursuit of strategic assets through cross-border acquisitions	123
Navigating sustainable finance: Examining the impact of sustainable credit policy on energy consumption intensity	119
EU-27 bank failure prediction with C5.0 decision trees and deep learning neural networks	118
Unraveling the phenomenon of Born Globals from emerging markets: a systematic literature review and research agenda	115
Asset encumbrance in banks: Is systemic risk affected?	113
Carbon emissions and discontinued operations	109
The impact of insider-appointment on the fulfillment of M&A performance commitments: Based on the power-responsibility paradox	105
Asymmetric dynamics between geopolitical conflict sentiment and cryptomarkets	105
Are institutional investors effective monitors in a country where closely held firms predominate? Insights from agency problem-driven dividend payouts	103
Global economic uncertainty and the Chinese stock market: Assessing the impacts of global indicators	102
Impact of corporate philanthropy on firm performance: The moderating role of board structure	92
Does fintech drive sustainability? Insights from clean energy and global partnerships	89
Quantile connectedness between Chinese stock and commodity futures markets	87

The effects of portfolio rebalancing strategies on the performance of global mutual funds	84
Performance of ESG-integrated smart beta strategies in Asia-Pacific stock markets	83
Digital finance, institutional quality, and air pollution: Evidence from China	83
Can non-punitive regulation curb corporate greenwashing?Evidence from a word embedding model	83
Has FinTech changed the sensitivity of corporate investment to interest rates?—Evidence from China	80
Unpacking energy consumption in China's urbanization: Industry development, population growth, and spatial expansion	79
ESG reputational risk and market valuation: Evidence from the European banking industry	78
Analyst optimism and market sentiment: Evidence from European corporate sustainability reporters	78
Credit risk prediction based on loan profit: Evidence from Chinese SMEs	78
ESG news and firm value: Evidence from China’s automation of pollution monitoring	78
Understanding the impact of the financial technology revolution on systemic risk: Evidence from US and EU diversified financials	76
ESG leaders and crypto currency market: Asymmetric TVP-VAR connectedness and investment approaches	73
Does market microstructure affect time-varying efficiency? Evidence from emerging markets	73
Extreme return connectedness among renewable energy and rare earth markets: The role of global factors	73
Corporate governance, fraud learning cycles, and financial fraud detection: Evidence from Chinese listed firms	72
Accounting for digital currencies	72
Editorial Board	70
Connectedness and systemic risk between FinTech and traditional financial stocks: Implications for portfolio diversification	70
Are stock markets efficient with respect to the Google search volume index? A robustness check of the literature studies	69
Nurturing finance and harvesting intelligence: The green growth of urban industrial intelligence fueled by green finance	68
A sparsity algorithm for finding optimal counterfactual explanations: Application to corporate credit rating	67
Why do entrepreneurial firms switch lead venture capital? A double-sided matching perspective	67
The effects of regulatory mechanism on enterprise carbon reduction policies	66
Market response to environmental social and governance performance: A global analysis	66
The takeover Tango: Unraveling the impact of state-owned enterprise acquisitions on American competitors	65
Does common ownership affect stock price synchronicity?	64
The digital economy and entrepreneurial dynamics: An empirical analysis of urban regions in China	64
Guarantee requirements by European central counterparties and international volatility spillovers	63
Revisiting asset co-movement: Does network topology really matter?	63
Dynamic risk and hedging strategies in post-COVID digital asset sectors	63
Influence of social sustainable development goals sentiment on listed companies	62
Hedge funds and sentiment-induced overpricing: Arbitrageurs or speculators?	62
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	62
FinTech and unemployment: New evidence on the role of labor market regulation	61
Trade credit financing, social trust, and financial distress: Evidence from Chinese listed companies	61
How do deep-level and surface-level board diversity affect bank risk?	61