OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Empirica is 1. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Financial cycles in Europe: dynamics, synchronicity and implications for business cycles and macroeconomic imbalances	68
No more tears without tiers? The impact of indirect settlement on liquidity use in TARGET2	44
Determinants of bail-in debt yields in the EU banking sector: a multi-country approach with idiosyncratic factors	34
Performance and investment styles of international multi-asset funds during market crises	33
Fiscal tensions and risk premium	26
Consumption convergence: theory and evidence	23
Predictors of TFP growth in European countries	18
Aim high, shoot low? Product complexity and export survival in Latvia	14
Dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic in Slovenia: simulations with a macroeconometric model	11
A meta-analysis of the multiplier effects of the money supply on prices	11
Transmission channels of the cohesion policy: direct and indirect effects on EA synchronicity	10
Religiosity and risk-taking of Muslims: evidence from lab and field	9
Regression analysis with independent variables in shares: a guide and an empirical example	8
Time-varying effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on stock markets and economic activity: evidence from the US and Europe	8
Finance, growth and (macro)prudential policy: European evidence	7
Government spending efficiency in Latin America	7
Agglomeration economies and firm’s export intensity: evidence from Portuguese manufacturing SMEs	7
Effects of specific versus ad valorem excise taxes: empirical evidence on cigarette pricing in the EU	7
German labor market reform and the rise of Eastern Europe: dissecting their effects on employment	7
Inflation targeting and disinflation costs in Emerging Market economies	7
Export activities and the demand for skills in German businesses	6
Household debt and financial vulnerability: empirical evidence for Spain, 2002–2020	6
Special Issue: Economics in Times of Uncertainty—Selected Papers of the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association	6
Data privacy regulation and cross-border e-commerce	6
The varying impact of COVID-19 in the Spanish Labor Market	6

Euro usage in international trade amidst threats to multilateralism: evidence from Malawian imports	6
Voluntary labour supply by birth cohort: empirical evidence from Germany	5
Inflation forecasting in turbulent times	5
Nowcasting and monitoring SDG 8	5
Policy instruments and self-reported impacts of the adoption of energy saving technologies in the DACH region	5
Determinants of substantial public debt reductions in Central and Eastern European Countries	5
Optimal fiscal policy in times of uncertainty: a stochastic control approach	5
Income inequality, economic openness and current account imbalances in new EU member states	5
A dynamic efficiency analysis for tax revenues in OECD countries	5
Cutting through the value chain: the long-run effects of decoupling the East from the West	4
Measuring private transfers between generations and gender: an application of national transfer accounts for Austria 2015	4
What matters for the economic synchronization of the Baltic States	4
Intergroup cooperation in the lab: asymmetric power relations and redistributive policies	4
Expected inflation and interest-rate dynamics in the COVID era: evidence from the time–frequency domain	3
Combining Walter Isard’s location, trade, and peace theories using a gravitational field model: a case study on the European market and Brexit	3
Labor market outcomes during opposite resource shocks: the 2009 and 2012 earthquakes in Italy	3
The non-linear impact of monetary policy on shifts in economic policy uncertainty: evidence from the United States of America	3
Debiasing the availability heuristic in student loan decision-making	3
Wage inequality dynamics in Turkey	3
Competition effects in EU external aid supply tenders funded with the Pre-accession and Neighbourhood instruments	3
Analyzing the differential effects of COVID-19 on export flows: a focus on customs procedures	2
Stability of pro-sociality and trust amid the Covid-19: panel data from the Netherlands	2
Transition of the automotive industry towards electric vehicle production in the east European integrated periphery	2
Positive and negative health events and trust	2
Corruption as a push and pull factor of migration flows: evidence from European countries	2
Economic complexity and environmental pollution: evidence from the former socialist transition countries	2
Gender wage gap, quality of earnings and gender digital divide in the European context	2
Government debt: the impact of fiscal rules at the European and national level	2
Assessing the importance of risky products in international trade and global value chains	2
Special issue: Evidence based policy making—selected papers of the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association	2
Fairness, expectations and life satisfaction: evidence from Europe	2
Fiscal risk sharing and redistribution between Austrian states	2
Fiscal sustainability and low interest rates: what an indicator can(’t) tell	2
Supply constraints in a heterogenous agents household demand model: a method for assessing the direct impact of the COVID lockdown	2
Agglomeration and human capital: an extended spatial Mankiw-Romer-Weil model for European regions	2
Family firms, political connections, and R&D activities in Eastern European Countries	2
Industry-mix effects at different levels of sectoral disaggregation: a decomposition of inter-country differences in energy costs	2
Dynamics of the public-debt-to-gdp ratio: can it explain the risk premium of treasury bonds?	2
Productivity surplus and its distribution in Lithuanian agriculture	2
Complementarities of occupations and language skills of immigrants in Europe	2
The excess profits during COVID-19 and their tax revenue potential	2
Housing price uncertainty and housing prices in the UK in a time-varying environment	1
Synchronization and cyclicality of social spending in economic crises	1
Effect of the duration of membership in the GATT/WTO on human development in developed and developing countries	1
Returns on informal and formal finance for Indian informal firms: a pseudo panel data analysis	1
Special Issue: Sustainability, Work and Growth in the Context of SDG 8	1
Long-run dynamics between trade liberalization and income inequality in the European Union: a second generation approach	1
The future of employment revisited: how model selection affects digitization risks	1
Has the Russian invasion of Ukraine reinforced anti-globalization sentiment in Austria?	1
Long run non-linearity in CO2 emissions: the I(2) cointegration model and the environmental Kuznets curve	1

The endogeneity of optimum currency areas in light of pan-European intra-industry trade patterns and business cycle synchronicity	1
Financial and economic uncertainties and their effects on the economy	1
Productive capacity and international competitiveness: evidence from Latin America and Caribbean countries	1
The effect of higher capital requirements on bank lending: the capital surplus matters	1
Macroeconomic drivers of CO2 emissions: a panel estimation for African countries	1
Sustainability gap of public debt: importance of interest rates and a new decomposition with premia	1
Sovereign risk connectedness: the impact of ECB’s policy announcements in Central and Eastern Europe	1
Scope, scale, and locational preferences: an analysis of emerging multinationals	1
Trading Kuznets curve: empirical analysis for China	1
Covid-19 and altruism: a meta-analysis of dictator games	1
Environmental regulations and firms’ integration in global markets: using a new environmental performance index	1
Correction to: Labour market transitions, shocks and institutions in turbulent times: a cross-country analysis	1
The nonlinear effect of financial literacy on wealth: evidence from Germany	1
Economy 4.0: employment effects by occupation, industry, and gender	1