OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Economic Analysis and Policy 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Increasing the use of public bicycles: Efficiency and demand	195
The economic implications of population aging on current account balance	192
The effects of rural e-commerce on income inequality: evidence from the National Rural E-Commerce Comprehensive Demonstration policy in China	174
Choice and expenditure: A double hurdle model of private tutoring in Qatar	169
China’s trade in services and asymmetric J-curve	167
Linking Spanish wine farmers to international markets: Is direct export better than indirect export in improving farm performance?	162
Market-based emissions regulation and capacity governance in China’s high-carbon firms: Theoretical investigation and empirical evidence	158
Quantifying the risk of renewable energy droughts in Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM) using MERRA-2 weather data	156
One Country – Two Monetary Policies: Evidence from a new indicator of the PBoC’s monetary policy support for poor regions	141
Does crop insurance increase farmers’ income? Evidence from the pilot program of agricultural catastrophe insurance in China	139
The effect of the environmental protection tax on corporate labor demand: Evidence from China	126
The Impact of green finance reform on firms' patent quality: An empirical study from Chinese listed manufacturing firms	120
How does bank equity affect credit creation? Multiplier effects under Basel III regulations	109
Does the structure of credit markets affect agricultural development in West African countries?	108
Compromise or struggle: Extreme temperatures and environmental corporate social responsibility in China	107
Return and volatility connectedness between gold and energy markets: Evidence from the pre- and post-COVID vaccination phases	104
How does manufacturing agglomeration affect high-quality economic development in China?	103
Risk contribution to deposit insurance: Evidence from commercial and cooperative banks in the Eurozone	99
Impact of devolved forest tenure reform on formal credit access for households: Evidence from Fujian, China	99
The effect of a change to the income support policy for the elderly on labor supply in South Korea	99
Do hospital reform and ownership matter to Shenzhen hospitals in China? A productivity analysis	95
The role of global agricultural market integration in multiregional economic modeling: Using hindcast experiments to validate an Armington model	92
The carbon tax as an automatic stabilizer in a commodity-producing Small Open Economy	92
The low-carbon effect of pursuing the honor of civilization? A quasi-experiment in Chinese cities	90
Digital financial innovation, productivity and modernization of industry chain and supply chain	90

The role of EU structural and investment funds in the green transition: A stochastic ray frontier analysis	90
Social credit system and the alleviation of investment–financing maturity mismatch in China	89
Does the Inclusive Finance Index really represent the level of inclusive finance? – Evidence from P2P lending market	88
Impact of China’s National Sword Policy on waste import:A difference-in-differences approach	87
Do carbon markets induce suppliers’ green innovation through backward linkages?	83
Unleashing the digital dividend: Exploring how the digital economy promotes the construction of new urbanization in China’s 284 prefecture-level cities?	83
Modern health pandemic crises and stock price crash risk	83
Can the joint regional air pollution control policy achieve a win-win outcome for the environment and economy? Evidence from China	82
Does COVID-19 make the firms’ performance worse? Evidence from the Chinese listed companies	81
Climate finance for energy security: An empirical analysis from a global perspective	81
Does technology innovation help to achieve carbon neutrality?	79
A comprehensive analysis of the correlation between foreign aid and energy security in emerging countries: Does institutional quality matter?	77
How antitrust enforcement affects corporate ESG performance? Evidence from merger review cases in China	76
ESG Rating Events, Financial Investment Behavior and Corporate Innovation	75
Linking farmers to markets: Does cooperative membership facilitate e-commerce adoption and income growth in rural China?	74
The impact of fiscal squeeze on corporate tax avoidance behaviors: Evidence from the agricultural tax reform	70
Inflation and wealth inequality	69
Does green manufacturing technology innovation decrease energy intensity for sustainable development?	68
How do low-carbon city pilots affect carbon emissions? Staggered difference in difference evidence from Chinese firms	68
The lending implication of a funding for lending scheme policy during COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Indonesia Banks	67
Air quality, COVID-19, and the oil market: Evidence from China’s provinces	66
Environmental and economy-wide impacts of green fiscal policies on digital economy development: A CGE-based analysis	65
Digital industry agglomeration and urban innovation: Evidence from China	65
Stochastic copula-DEA model based on the dependence structure of stochastic variables: An application to twenty bank branches	65
The impacts of household splitting on migrants' subjective well-being: Evidence from China	62
Artificial intelligence and firm green innovation: empirical evidence from the application of robots in China	61
A connectedness analysis among BRICS’s geopolitical risks and the US macroeconomy	60
Blessing or curse? The effect of broadband Internet on China’s inter-city income inequality	60
Has China’s Free Trade Zone policy promoted the upgrading of service industry structure?	59
The carbon emissions trading scheme and green technology innovation in China: A new structural economics perspective	57
Regional economic impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns and mitigation effects of stimulus checks and unemployment insurance	56
Does development zones improve the capacity utilization of firms? Based on the dual perspectives of firms inside and outside the zone	56
Does COVID-19 play any role in the asymmetric relationship between oil prices and exchange rates? Evidence from South Korea	56
Progressive wealth tax: An inquiry into Biden’s tax policy	56