OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Economic Analysis and Policy is 59. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The economic implications of population aging on current account balance	219
Linking Spanish wine farmers to international markets: Is direct export better than indirect export in improving farm performance?	208
The effect of a change to the income support policy for the elderly on labor supply in South Korea	198
A comprehensive analysis of the correlation between foreign aid and energy security in emerging countries: Does institutional quality matter?	191
The effect of the environmental protection tax on corporate labor demand: Evidence from China	181
Quantifying the risk of renewable energy droughts in Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM) using MERRA-2 weather data	180
Multidimensional risk connectedness among global systemically important financial institutions: A multilayer spillover network analysis	179
The role of global agricultural market integration in multiregional economic modeling: Using hindcast experiments to validate an Armington model	158
Does crop insurance increase farmers’ income? Evidence from the pilot program of agricultural catastrophe insurance in China	150
Inflation and wealth inequality	147
Do carbon markets induce suppliers’ green innovation through backward linkages?	134
Does the Inclusive Finance Index really represent the level of inclusive finance? – Evidence from P2P lending market	120
The carbon tax as an automatic stabilizer in a commodity-producing Small Open Economy	115
Market-based emissions regulation and capacity governance in China’s high-carbon firms: Theoretical investigation and empirical evidence	115
How does bank equity affect credit creation? Multiplier effects under Basel III regulations	113
Return and volatility connectedness between gold and energy markets: Evidence from the pre- and post-COVID vaccination phases	111
China’s trade in services and asymmetric J-curve	108
The role of EU structural and investment funds in the green transition: A stochastic ray frontier analysis	106
One Country – Two Monetary Policies: Evidence from a new indicator of the PBoC’s monetary policy support for poor regions	103
How antitrust enforcement affects corporate ESG performance? Evidence from merger review cases in China	103
Do hospital reform and ownership matter to Shenzhen hospitals in China? A productivity analysis	99
Modern health pandemic crises and stock price crash risk	98
Does COVID-19 make the firms’ performance worse? Evidence from the Chinese listed companies	98
Digital financial innovation, productivity and modernization of industry chain and supply chain	98
Increasing the use of public bicycles: Efficiency and demand	97

Compromise or struggle: Extreme temperatures and environmental corporate social responsibility in China	97
Does the structure of credit markets affect agricultural development in West African countries?	96
Risk contribution to deposit insurance: Evidence from commercial and cooperative banks in the Eurozone	94
Does green manufacturing technology innovation decrease energy intensity for sustainable development?	93
The Impact of green finance reform on firms' patent quality: An empirical study from Chinese listed manufacturing firms	91
Impact of China’s National Sword Policy on waste import:A difference-in-differences approach	91
Unleashing the digital dividend: Exploring how the digital economy promotes the construction of new urbanization in China’s 284 prefecture-level cities?	89
The low-carbon effect of pursuing the honor of civilization? A quasi-experiment in Chinese cities	89
The effects of rural e-commerce on income inequality: evidence from the National Rural E-Commerce Comprehensive Demonstration policy in China	88
How do low-carbon city pilots affect carbon emissions? Staggered difference in difference evidence from Chinese firms	82
Social credit system and the alleviation of investment–financing maturity mismatch in China	81
Does technology innovation help to achieve carbon neutrality?	80
ESG Rating Events, Financial Investment Behavior and Corporate Innovation	78
Climate finance for energy security: An empirical analysis from a global perspective	73
The impact of fiscal squeeze on corporate tax avoidance behaviors: Evidence from the agricultural tax reform	72
Linking farmers to markets: Does cooperative membership facilitate e-commerce adoption and income growth in rural China?	72
Integrating Dimensionality Reduction and Clustering for Measuring Profit Efficiency: A Stochastic Meta-Frontier Approach in Korean Manufacturing Sector†	72
How does manufacturing agglomeration affect high-quality economic development in China?	71
Can the joint regional air pollution control policy achieve a win-win outcome for the environment and economy? Evidence from China	70
Increasing the share of renewable energy sources (RESs) in the specific portfolio by using the taxation mechanism: Study at the level of EU states	69
Jump further or climb higher? Impact of different export upgrading strategies on exporter survival	69
A bootstrap dynamic multivariate panel Granger causality analysis to examine the relationship between the COVID-19, Delta and Omicron pandemic era and the maritime shipping freight industry	67
Are greenhouse gas emissions converging in Latin America? Implications for environmental policies	66
Environmental and economy-wide impacts of green fiscal policies on digital economy development: A CGE-based analysis	66
Does the child support grant incentivise childbirth in South Africa?	65
Assessing geopolitical risk: Sovereign CDS insights from the Russo-Ukrainian War	64
Impact of developmental social policy on household welfare: Evidence from China’s comprehensive demonstration policy for e-commerce in rural areas	63
Unveiling the power of state activism in times of distress	62
Firm-level perception of uncertainty and corporate default risk: Evidence from China’s listed firms	61
Regional economic impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns and mitigation effects of stimulus checks and unemployment insurance	61
Stochastic copula-DEA model based on the dependence structure of stochastic variables: An application to twenty bank branches	60
The lending implication of a funding for lending scheme policy during COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Indonesia Banks	60
Air quality, COVID-19, and the oil market: Evidence from China’s provinces	60
Progressive wealth tax: An inquiry into Biden’s tax policy	60
Does development zones improve the capacity utilization of firms? Based on the dual perspectives of firms inside and outside the zone	59
Employee allocation efficiency in the context of the digital economy: Evidence from “Broadband China” demonstration cities	59