OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Research in International Business and Finance is 43. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Stock markets’ reaction to COVID-19: Cases or fatalities?	710
Are cryptocurrencies a safe haven for equity markets? An international perspective from the COVID-19 pandemic	345
Greenwashing in environmental, social and governance disclosures	224
Innovation as recovery strategy for SMEs in emerging economies during the COVID-19 pandemic	152
Can fintech improve the efficiency of commercial banks? —An analysis based on big data	151
COVID-19, government policy responses, and stock market liquidity around the world: A note	118
ESG disclosure and Firm performance: A bibliometric and meta analysis	108
The impact of COVID-19 on the stock market crash risk in China	106
A systematic review of the bubble dynamics of cryptocurrency prices	92
Artificial intelligence and machine learning in finance: A bibliometric review	87
Impact of COVID-19 on stock market efficiency: Evidence from developed countries	83
Does COVID-19 open a Pandora's box of changing the connectedness in energy commodities?	83
On the nonlinear relationship between energy use and CO2 emissions within an EKC framework: Evidence from panel smooth transition regression in the MENA region	81
Trade credit research before and after the global financial crisis of 2008 – A bibliometric overview	78
Corporate Social Responsibility Amid Social Distancing During the COVID-19 Crisis: BRICS vs. OECD Countries	76
Are stablecoins truly diversifiers, hedges, or safe havens against traditional cryptocurrencies as their name suggests?	75
Does bitcoin co-move and share risk with Sukuk and world and regional Islamic stock markets? Evidence using a time-frequency approach	70
How does economic policy uncertainty affect the bitcoin market?	69
Does economic policy uncertainty affect cryptocurrency markets? Evidence from Twitter-based uncertainty measures	69
Did COVID-19 change spillover patterns between Fintech and other asset classes?	67
Oil prices and economic policy uncertainty: Evidence from global, oil importers, and exporters’ perspective	63
In search of safe haven assets during COVID-19 pandemic: An empirical analysis of different investor types	63
Empirical investigation of changes in policy uncertainty on stock returns—Evidence from China’s market	63
How does corporate social responsibility affect financial performance, financial stability, and financial inclusion in the banking sector? Evidence from Pakistan	63
Return and volatility spillovers between energy and BRIC markets: Evidence from quantile connectedness	63

How do financial globalization, institutions and economic growth impact financial sector development in European countries?	62
Financial crises and the dynamics of the spillovers between the U.S. and BRICS stock markets	60
A bibliometric analysis of ESG performance in the banking industry: From the current status to future directions	58
Impact of the Covid-19 induced panic on the Environmental, Social and Governance leaders equity volatility: A time-frequency analysis	57
The historic oil price fluctuation during the Covid-19 pandemic: What are the causes?	55
Twitter-Based uncertainty and cryptocurrency returns	55
Volatility spillover between economic sectors in financial crisis prediction: Evidence spanning the great financial crisis and Covid-19 pandemic	54
Does the porter hypothesis work well in the emission trading schema pilot? Exploring moderating effects of institutional settings	54
Does financial deepening attract foreign direct investment? Fresh evidence from panel threshold analysis	51
Nonlinear dynamic correlation between geopolitical risk and oil prices: A study based on high-frequency data	51
Banking sector reactions to COVID-19: The role of bank-specific factors and government policy responses	50
Does low-carbon pilot city program reduce carbon intensity? Evidence from Chinese cities	49
Asymmetric volatility spillovers between economic policy uncertainty and stock markets: Evidence from China	49
COVID-19 Sentiment and the Chinese Stock Market: Evidence from the Official News Media and Sina Weibo	48
The COVID-19 black swan crisis: Reaction and recovery of various financial markets	47
A firefly algorithm modified support vector machine for the credit risk assessment of supply chain finance	47
Can FinTech improve corporate investment efficiency? Evidence from China	47
Asymmetric effect of COVID-19 pandemic on E7 stock indices: Evidence from quantile-on-quantile regression approach	45
Price discovery in bitcoin futures	43