OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Economic Analysis and Policy is 58. 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
The economic implications of population aging on current account balance	209
Unleashing the digital dividend: Exploring how the digital economy promotes the construction of new urbanization in China’s 284 prefecture-level cities?	205
Climate finance for energy security: An empirical analysis from a global perspective	187
The role of global agricultural market integration in multiregional economic modeling: Using hindcast experiments to validate an Armington model	185
Return and volatility connectedness between gold and energy markets: Evidence from the pre- and post-COVID vaccination phases	177
The low-carbon effect of pursuing the honor of civilization? A quasi-experiment in Chinese cities	174
Does crop insurance increase farmers’ income? Evidence from the pilot program of agricultural catastrophe insurance in China	168
Inflation and wealth inequality	152
Does technology innovation help to achieve carbon neutrality?	146
ESG Rating Events, Financial Investment Behavior and Corporate Innovation	141
Compromise or struggle: Extreme temperatures and environmental corporate social responsibility in China	129
Do carbon markets induce suppliers’ green innovation through backward linkages?	118
Does the Inclusive Finance Index really represent the level of inclusive finance? – Evidence from P2P lending market	112
Social credit system and the alleviation of investment–financing maturity mismatch in China	112
Market-based emissions regulation and capacity governance in China’s high-carbon firms: Theoretical investigation and empirical evidence	111
The role of EU structural and investment funds in the green transition: A stochastic ray frontier analysis	107
The carbon tax as an automatic stabilizer in a commodity-producing Small Open Economy	105
Does COVID-19 make the firms’ performance worse? Evidence from the Chinese listed companies	105
How does bank equity affect credit creation? Multiplier effects under Basel III regulations	101
One Country – Two Monetary Policies: Evidence from a new indicator of the PBoC’s monetary policy support for poor regions	100
Do hospital reform and ownership matter to Shenzhen hospitals in China? A productivity analysis	97
Modern health pandemic crises and stock price crash risk	96
How does manufacturing agglomeration affect high-quality economic development in China?	96
Digital financial innovation, productivity and modernization of industry chain and supply chain	96
Impact of China’s National Sword Policy on waste import:A difference-in-differences approach	95

How antitrust enforcement affects corporate ESG performance? Evidence from merger review cases in China	94
Risk contribution to deposit insurance: Evidence from commercial and cooperative banks in the Eurozone	93
Increasing the use of public bicycles: Efficiency and demand	92
Does green manufacturing technology innovation decrease energy intensity for sustainable development?	92
The effect of a change to the income support policy for the elderly on labor supply in South Korea	89
Linking Spanish wine farmers to international markets: Is direct export better than indirect export in improving farm performance?	89
A comprehensive analysis of the correlation between foreign aid and energy security in emerging countries: Does institutional quality matter?	87
China’s trade in services and asymmetric J-curve	87
The Impact of green finance reform on firms' patent quality: An empirical study from Chinese listed manufacturing firms	85
The effect of the environmental protection tax on corporate labor demand: Evidence from China	79
Does the structure of credit markets affect agricultural development in West African countries?	78
Quantifying the risk of renewable energy droughts in Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM) using MERRA-2 weather data	76
The impact of fiscal squeeze on corporate tax avoidance behaviors: Evidence from the agricultural tax reform	75
The effects of rural e-commerce on income inequality: evidence from the National Rural E-Commerce Comprehensive Demonstration policy in China	72
Linking farmers to markets: Does cooperative membership facilitate e-commerce adoption and income growth in rural China?	70
How do low-carbon city pilots affect carbon emissions? Staggered difference in difference evidence from Chinese firms	70
Can the joint regional air pollution control policy achieve a win-win outcome for the environment and economy? Evidence from China	70
Does development zones improve the capacity utilization of firms? Based on the dual perspectives of firms inside and outside the zone	68
The effects of mixed ownership reforms on Chinese firms’ emissions	67
Increasing the share of renewable energy sources (RESs) in the specific portfolio by using the taxation mechanism: Study at the level of EU states	67
The impacts of household splitting on migrants' subjective well-being: Evidence from China	66
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	65
Artificial intelligence and firm green innovation: empirical evidence from the application of robots in China	65
Assessing geopolitical risk: Sovereign CDS insights from the Russo-Ukrainian War	64
Environmental and economy-wide impacts of green fiscal policies on digital economy development: A CGE-based analysis	64
Impact of developmental social policy on household welfare: Evidence from China’s comprehensive demonstration policy for e-commerce in rural areas	62
The impact of bank interest rate deregulations on firm exports: Evidence from China	62
Unveiling the power of state activism in times of distress	60
Mixed-ownership reform of SOEs and ESG performance: Evidence from China	59
Progressive wealth tax: An inquiry into Biden’s tax policy	59
The housing status and two-child fertility willingness of floating population: Evidence from the Chinese General Social Survey	59
Does the child support grant incentivise childbirth in South Africa?	59
Does COVID-19 play any role in the asymmetric relationship between oil prices and exchange rates? Evidence from South Korea	59