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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Financial cycles in Europe: dynamics, synchronicity and implications for business cycles and macroeconomic imbalances	64
No more tears without tiers? The impact of indirect settlement on liquidity use in TARGET2	50
Reaching (Beyond) the frontier: energy efficiency in Europe	50
Performance and investment styles of international multi-asset funds during market crises	32
Determinants of bail-in debt yields in the EU banking sector: a multi-country approach with idiosyncratic factors	19
Nowcasting economic activity in a small open CESEE economy using mixed frequency data	16
Dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic in Slovenia: simulations with a macroeconometric model	15
Predictors of TFP growth in European countries	12
Aim high, shoot low? Product complexity and export survival in Latvia	11
A meta-analysis of the multiplier effects of the money supply on prices	11
Consumption convergence: theory and evidence	11
Religiosity and risk-taking of Muslims: evidence from lab and field	10
Monetary shocks and labor markets: evidence from online job vacancy postings	10
Transmission channels of the cohesion policy: direct and indirect effects on EA synchronicity	10
Analysing the link between income composition inequality and personal income inequality in Spain 2007–2021	10
Government spending efficiency in Latin America	9
Time-varying effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on stock markets and economic activity: evidence from the US and Europe	9
Inflation targeting and disinflation costs in Emerging Market economies	9
Regression analysis with independent variables in shares: a guide and an empirical example	9
Effects of specific versus ad valorem excise taxes: empirical evidence on cigarette pricing in the EU	8
Special Issue: Economics in Times of Uncertainty—Selected Papers of the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association	8
The dual frontier: heterogeneous associations of Artificial Intelligence with sectoral growth and the moderating role of institutional quality	8
Voluntary labour supply by birth cohort: empirical evidence from Germany	7
Household debt and financial vulnerability: empirical evidence for Spain, 2002–2020	7
Data privacy regulation and cross-border e-commerce	7

Optimal fiscal policy in times of uncertainty: a stochastic control approach	7
Agglomeration economies and firm’s export intensity: evidence from Portuguese manufacturing SMEs	7
How do indirect taxes reshape tax-benefit-revealed social preferences for redistribution?	7
The varying impact of COVID-19 in the Spanish Labor Market	7
German labor market reform and the rise of Eastern Europe: dissecting their effects on employment	7
The dynamics of Okun’s law: cross-country analysis across economic cycles (1980–2023)	6
The impact of ICT adoption on productivity: evidence from Portuguese firm-level data	6
A dynamic efficiency analysis for tax revenues in OECD countries	6
Inflation forecasting in turbulent times	6
Wage inequality dynamics in Turkey	5
Income inequality, economic openness and current account imbalances in new EU member states	5
Intergroup cooperation in the lab: asymmetric power relations and redistributive policies	5
Homebuying sentiment in a booming housing market – evidence from Poland	5
Finance, asset prices, and the business cycle: evidence on the reliability of real-time output gap estimates	5
What matters for the economic synchronization of the Baltic States	4
Combining Walter Isard’s location, trade, and peace theories using a gravitational field model: a case study on the European market and Brexit	4
Asset prices and durable spending in Central and Eastern Europe	4
Cutting through the value chain: the long-run effects of decoupling the East from the West	4
Debiasing the availability heuristic in student loan decision-making	4
Positive and negative health events and trust	4
Expected inflation and interest-rate dynamics in the COVID era: evidence from the time–frequency domain	4
Labor market outcomes during opposite resource shocks: the 2009 and 2012 earthquakes in Italy	4
The non-linear impact of monetary policy on shifts in economic policy uncertainty: evidence from the United States of America	4
Agglomeration and human capital: an extended spatial Mankiw-Romer-Weil model for European regions	3
Dynamics of the public-debt-to-gdp ratio: can it explain the risk premium of treasury bonds?	3
Complementarities of occupations and language skills of immigrants in Europe	3
Fairness, expectations and life satisfaction: evidence from Europe	3
Analyzing the differential effects of COVID-19 on export flows: a focus on customs procedures	3
ECB monetary policy spillovers in small open economies: evidence from a hierarchical Bayesian panel VAR for a sample of Western Balkan countries	3
Economic voting and the radical right in Europe: unveiling regional dynamics with novel approaches	3
The excess profits during COVID-19 and their tax revenue potential	3
Gender wage gap, quality of earnings and gender digital divide in the European context	3
Economic complexity and environmental pollution: evidence from the former socialist transition countries	3
Corruption as a push and pull factor of migration flows: evidence from European countries	3
COVID-19, economic policy uncertainty and stock returns in selected European countries: a wavelet analysis	2
estimateW: a Bayesian R package for estimating spatial weight matrices, with an application to European regional growth	2
Industry-mix effects at different levels of sectoral disaggregation: a decomposition of inter-country differences in energy costs	2
Compliance with fiscal sustainability and the euro	2
Scope, scale, and locational preferences: an analysis of emerging multinationals	2
Family firms, political connections, and R&D activities in Eastern European Countries	2
Government debt: the impact of fiscal rules at the European and national level	2
Stability of pro-sociality and trust amid the Covid-19: panel data from the Netherlands	2
Effect of the duration of membership in the GATT/WTO on human development in developed and developing countries	2
Economic policy uncertainty and bank wholesale funding: Does the quality of political signals matter?	2
Housing price uncertainty and housing prices in the UK in a time-varying environment	2
Examining the ‘blessing’ effects of natural resource endowments on economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean	2
Why Europeans (do not) leave part-time employment? A competing risks analysis	2
Assessing the importance of risky products in international trade and global value chains	2
The endogeneity of optimum currency areas in light of pan-European intra-industry trade patterns and business cycle synchronicity	2
Does fiscal devaluation always work? A sectoral and business cycle perspective	2

Transition of the automotive industry towards electric vehicle production in the east European integrated periphery	2
Collaborative agglomeration of digital and manufacturing industries: a pathway to strengthening green resilience	1
Conference on European Economic Integration (CEEI) 2021: Recalibrating tomorrow’s global value chains – prospects for CESEE	1
COVID-19 and public support for the Euro	1
When growth isn’t shared: a century of inequality, productivity, and adjusted economic output	1
Environmental regulations and firms’ integration in global markets: using a new environmental performance index	1
Synchronization and cyclicality of social spending in economic crises	1
The future of employment revisited: how model selection affects digitization risks	1
Sovereign risk connectedness: the impact of ECB’s policy announcements in Central and Eastern Europe	1
The impact of measured income uncertainty on Spanish household consumption at the end of the Great Recession	1
The impact of COVID-19 on the European short-term rental market	1
Estimating market power for the European manufacturing industry between 2000 and 2014	1
Fiscal policies in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina: are spending or revenue measures more effective?	1
Covid-19 and altruism: a meta-analysis of dictator games	1
Investments needed for achieving climate neutrality in Austria and their economic implications	1
Productive capacity and international competitiveness: evidence from Latin America and Caribbean countries	1
Long run non-linearity in CO2 emissions: the I(2) cointegration model and the environmental Kuznets curve	1
Financial and economic uncertainties and their effects on the economy	1
Macroeconomic drivers of CO2 emissions: a panel estimation for African countries	1
Banking sector size and economic performance in the Euro area countries	1
Decision mechanism of farmers’ low-carbon agricultural technology adoption: an evolutionary game theory approach	1
Growing by outsourcing: a tale of two growths	1
The role of market beliefs and macroeconomic fundamentals in the 2010–2013 Portuguese sovereign debt crisis	1
Sustainability gap of public debt: importance of interest rates and a new decomposition with premia	1
Estimating the Tobacco Kuznets relationship in Spain (1957–2023): income curvature, projected turning points, and policy implications	1
Returns on informal and formal finance for Indian informal firms: a pseudo panel data analysis	1
Reevaluating the determinants of population health in Europe: a spatial regression analysis	1
Has the Russian invasion of Ukraine reinforced anti-globalization sentiment in Austria?	1
Convergence, inequality and inflation synchronization: evidence from the Eurozone	1