OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Research in International Business and Finance is 56. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
ESG news and firm value: Evidence from China’s automation of pollution monitoring	373
The impact of insider-appointment on the fulfillment of M&A performance commitments: Based on the power-responsibility paradox	294
Digital finance, institutional quality, and air pollution: Evidence from China	159
Controlling shareholder’s escape threat: Foreign residency rights and stock price crash risk	142
Editorial Board	132
EU-27 bank failure prediction with C5.0 decision trees and deep learning neural networks	128
Global economic uncertainty and the Chinese stock market: Assessing the impacts of global indicators	125
Unpacking energy consumption in China's urbanization: Industry development, population growth, and spatial expansion	119
Accounting for digital currencies	115
ESG leaders and crypto currency market: Asymmetric TVP-VAR connectedness and investment approaches	112
Factorial asset pricing models using statistical anomalies	104
Does market microstructure affect time-varying efficiency? Evidence from emerging markets	104
Extreme return connectedness among renewable energy and rare earth markets: The role of global factors	103
The effects of portfolio rebalancing strategies on the performance of global mutual funds	103
Analyst optimism and market sentiment: Evidence from European corporate sustainability reporters	100
Are institutional investors effective monitors in a country where closely held firms predominate? Insights from agency problem-driven dividend payouts	100
Emerging market multinationals’ pursuit of strategic assets through cross-border acquisitions	99
Perceived vs actual financial crisis and bank credit standards: Is there any indication of self-fulfilling prophecy?	96
Understanding the impact of the financial technology revolution on systemic risk: Evidence from US and EU diversified financials	95
Related party lending and rural bank risk: Evidence during the Covid-19 period	91
Monetary policy and currency variance risk premia	91
Internal control opinion shopping: Does initial audit fee discounting matter?	90
Are real interest rates a monetary phenomenon? Evidence from 700 years of data	89
Asset encumbrance in banks: Is systemic risk affected?	87
Credit risk prediction based on loan profit: Evidence from Chinese SMEs	83

Asymmetric dynamics between geopolitical conflict sentiment and cryptomarkets	82
The logics of sovereign credit ratings in developed and developing countries	81
Quantile connectedness between Chinese stock and commodity futures markets	80
Connectedness and systemic risk between FinTech and traditional financial stocks: Implications for portfolio diversification	80
Artificial intelligence, digital transformation and cybersecurity in the banking sector: A multi-stakeholder cognition-driven framework	78
Family firms and the cost of borrowing: empirical evidence from East Asia	78
ESG reputational risk and market valuation: Evidence from the European banking industry	78
Impact of corporate philanthropy on firm performance: The moderating role of board structure	75
Corporate governance, fraud learning cycles, and financial fraud detection: Evidence from Chinese listed firms	75
Performance of ESG-integrated smart beta strategies in Asia-Pacific stock markets	73
Traders’ motivation and hedging pressure in commodity futures markets	71
COVID-19, a blessing in disguise for the Tech sector: Evidence from stock price crash risk	71
Can non-punitive regulation curb corporate greenwashing?Evidence from a word embedding model	70
Vulnerability of financial markets in India: The contagious effect of COVID-19	67
Impact of the Covid-19 induced panic on the Environmental, Social and Governance leaders equity volatility: A time-frequency analysis	67
Has FinTech changed the sensitivity of corporate investment to interest rates?—Evidence from China	66
Editorial Board	65
Navigating sustainable finance: Examining the impact of sustainable credit policy on energy consumption intensity	65
Are stock markets efficient with respect to the Google search volume index? A robustness check of the literature studies	64
Why do entrepreneurial firms switch lead venture capital? A double-sided matching perspective	63
How do Chinese urban investment bonds affect its economic resilience? Evidence from double machine learning	61
Bank equity returns and oil prices: The story from U.S. regional banks during the “shale oil” revolution	61
Can CFOs improve enterprise loan bargaining power? An empirical analysis based on CFO characteristics	61
Market competition and strategic interaction in the Spanish FinTech industry	60
The effects of regulatory mechanism on enterprise carbon reduction policies	60
Global Stock Markets during Covid-19: Did Rationality Prevail?	59
How does climate risk affect corporate financialization?	59
Does common ownership affect stock price synchronicity?	59
Identifying the asymmetric price dynamics of Islamic equities: Implications for international investors	57
Trade credit financing, social trust, and financial distress: Evidence from Chinese listed companies	57
Do investors listen? Exploring the effect of investor relationship management on firm-specific stock return variation	57
Top executives’ great famine experience and stock price crash risk	56
The takeover Tango: Unraveling the impact of state-owned enterprise acquisitions on American competitors	56