OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Research in International Business and Finance is 49. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Has FinTech changed the sensitivity of corporate investment to interest rates?—Evidence from China	281
Internal control opinion shopping: Does initial audit fee discounting matter?	214
Analyst optimism and market sentiment: Evidence from European corporate sustainability reporters	195
Unpacking energy consumption in China's urbanization: Industry development, population growth, and spatial expansion	141
Controlling shareholder’s escape threat: Foreign residency rights and stock price crash risk	132
Emerging market multinationals’ pursuit of strategic assets through cross-border acquisitions	109
Traders’ motivation and hedging pressure in commodity futures markets	104
Vulnerability of financial markets in India: The contagious effect of COVID-19	104
Perceived vs actual financial crisis and bank credit standards: Is there any indication of self-fulfilling prophecy?	95
Factorial asset pricing models using statistical anomalies	92
Asset encumbrance in banks: Is systemic risk affected?	91
The logics of sovereign credit ratings in developed and developing countries	91
Monetary policy and currency variance risk premia	91
Global economic uncertainty and the Chinese stock market: Assessing the impacts of global indicators	88
Artificial intelligence, digital transformation and cybersecurity in the banking sector: A multi-stakeholder cognition-driven framework	87
Existence of long memory in crude oil and petroleum products: Generalised Hurst exponent approach	84
Related party lending and rural bank risk: Evidence during the Covid-19 period	84
COVID-19, a blessing in disguise for the Tech sector: Evidence from stock price crash risk	82
Impact of corporate philanthropy on firm performance: The moderating role of board structure	77
Does market microstructure affect time-varying efficiency? Evidence from emerging markets	74
Connectedness and systemic risk between FinTech and traditional financial stocks: Implications for portfolio diversification	74
Performance of ESG-integrated smart beta strategies in Asia-Pacific stock markets	72
Corporate governance, fraud learning cycles, and financial fraud detection: Evidence from Chinese listed firms	72
The effects of portfolio rebalancing strategies on the performance of global mutual funds	71
ESG leaders and crypto currency market: Asymmetric TVP-VAR connectedness and investment approaches	71

Asymmetric dynamics between geopolitical conflict sentiment and cryptomarkets	70
Can non-punitive regulation curb corporate greenwashing?Evidence from a word embedding model	70
Credit risk prediction based on loan profit: Evidence from Chinese SMEs	69
Accounting for digital currencies	68
Navigating sustainable finance: Examining the impact of sustainable credit policy on energy consumption intensity	68
EU-27 bank failure prediction with C5.0 decision trees and deep learning neural networks	67
Understanding the impact of the financial technology revolution on systemic risk: Evidence from US and EU diversified financials	66
Impact of the Covid-19 induced panic on the Environmental, Social and Governance leaders equity volatility: A time-frequency analysis	65
Family firms and the cost of borrowing: empirical evidence from East Asia	65
ESG reputational risk and market valuation: Evidence from the European banking industry	64
Are real interest rates a monetary phenomenon? Evidence from 700 years of data	61
Quantile connectedness between Chinese stock and commodity futures markets	60
Dynamic risk and hedging strategies in post-COVID digital asset sectors	60
Editorial Board	59
Volatility transmission in the property market during two inflationary periods: The 2008–2009 global financial crisis and the COVID-19 crisis	59
Sports failures and stock returns between rationality and emotionality: Evidence from the UEFA Champions League	57
The takeover Tango: Unraveling the impact of state-owned enterprise acquisitions on American competitors	54
Top executives’ great famine experience and stock price crash risk	54
A sparsity algorithm for finding optimal counterfactual explanations: Application to corporate credit rating	53
Market competition and strategic interaction in the Spanish FinTech industry	52
Do investors listen? Exploring the effect of investor relationship management on firm-specific stock return variation	51
The digital economy and entrepreneurial dynamics: An empirical analysis of urban regions in China	50
Central Bank Digital Currencies: Agendas for future research	50
Financial inclusion, digital technology, and economic growth: Further evidence	50
Guarantee requirements by European central counterparties and international volatility spillovers	49
Analysing and forecasting co-movement between innovative and traditional financial assets based on complex network and machine learning	49